How long before price drops?

How long do I have to wait to see a price drop for 48xx cards?

4800 cards are already pretty low in price tbh and I don't see them falling much lower before they are all sold out.

Prices won't drop much more and eventually they'll actually start rising again because they'll become rare (like the 3xxx series.)

If you are in the USA, then you might be able to get a bargain price on Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving. Lots of special promotions that long holiday weekend.

ATI seems to have set the price-points on the 5800 based on the current 4800 price points. I doubt 4800s will go down much.

Its Nvidia that should be forced to reduce prices on the 200 series unless they have already cut production and are just going to let whats in the channel sell and get the 300 series out fairly soon.

Yeah if thats not an official seller then I don't know what is...

As the 5x series cards are not available yet and have a pretty distance between the 4x cards in the price so i think the price of 4x series is totally dependent on the price of 5850 or the 5770 cards (and ofcourse the rival cards like gtx260 and 275). Unless they are lowered a bit the 4x series cards may not see any price cut and that may not happen until Nvidia comes out with the new GT300 or the refreshed GT200 series(40nm). So yes you wont see any price cut very soon. Unless ofcourse Nvidia aggresively price the GTX260 to less than $150 the price of 4x series may not be going down anywhere soon. Maybe u will see it in christmas or later after

Ati has the 4800 series at the right price point to compete with nvidia's. Only when the other 5800 series cards come out will you see and price changes in the 4800 series.

just to make it worse on Nvidia

on a side note, why would someone even think of buying a GTX 280/285/295 etc??? The 5850 and 5870 basically obliterate the 285 and the 295 while saving good coin at the same time....... What will the Egg and all other e-tailors/stores do with all those GPU's? Send them back to the manufacturer? lol

They did not make any mistake, even at the current prices they just made it worse for Nvidia knowing that since yesterday most users will ditch Nvidia for AMD's new line up.... Regardless of their pricing they will make up the money in mass sales.... If you have noticed the 5870's are sold out everywhere, and soon they will release the 5770,5850 and 5870x2.... Once AMD's whole lineup is mainstream, it will be up to Nvidia to counter attack with thier new lineup.... So in all Nvidias future looks bleek unless their next-gen cards can hang or surpass with anything AMD/ATI has to offer at a reasonable price and that is most likely not going to happen.....

Look at it this way, when a company sells a product they would rather sell more for less than less for more... They used the same strategy that AMD used with the Phenoms and it worked, as opposed to Intel that produced a load of 975's that are sitting on top of shelves due to thier ridiculous pricetags. Another thing you have to remember is price to performance, in these hard times it is hard to sell a product that is overpriced and can be outperformed by another product that costs much less.