Boohooo ..... No one is holding are gun to your head and saying buy the extreme enthusiast card or a 30inch monitor for that case. No one forces you to buy a Dodge Viper when a Challenger is a fraction of the price or ford mustang even less.
You buy what is in your price bracket and if that means no 8800 Ultra when they were 1200+ AU$ so be it there is always a 8800GTS and GT etc. 7900 etc will run most new games quiet well.
Maybe we should sue OPEC on fixing petrol prices?
Or what about car companies for charging extreme prices on High end sport cards that all seem to hit around 90000US mark which we know it costs nowhere near that to make. What's next diamond and gold market fixing prices of precious stones and metals.
You want inervation and accerated progress then these companies need to make larger profits to be able to spend big.
Perhaps you should buy your next cards from elseware... maybe one that that did not spend billions on research and factories ... sorry don't want one that works on valves ... then what about S3 chromo or a matrox more your style.... cyris logic 3dfx Tsing all gone from the scene.
You need to make it big to spend it big...otherwise good bye and good riddens. If you don't like capitalism you can also move the CHINA or RUSSIA and won't get a fair deal there either. You have to pay more in some cases after everyone gets their cut.
Perhaps we need to create an OPEC style organisation to control prices of video cards ... if that is any thing like OPEC expect you video card to cost more than double every 5-7 years. If we went down that road when 3Dfx was king we now be paying about 1500$ gees guess what latest one will cost a lot less.
And I for one want at least double or more performance every 2 years and the new features to boot rather than dribs and drabs of 5% here and 2% there. We have seen in the past what happens to companies that sell themselves cheap and don't spend the millions on R&D they just don't cut it. You want to run with the big dogs you have to pay for the talent to keep you on anywhere near the top and those guys don't come cheap.
How naive! Do you REALLY imagine that N-A.T.I-V will really put ANY of the additional profit into faster advances in GPU technology. They become the whole GPU market and sweep all the extra money into the coffers. They keep up a similar R&D and watch as the bag of money just gets bigger and bigger - who pays for it? Us saps!
MMC65, you do realise that the only people who believe monopolies are geniunely good things are monopoly holders and people who have no understanding of economics. Competition drives innovation and cuts prices. When you conspire with the competition, the incentive to improve service all but disappears. Adam Smith worked that out several hundred years ago...
if ati and nvidia are going to join up, why can't they do it for a good purpose, such as making standards that are useful and that everyone actually follows. if this happened maybe they would actually sell more products, or sell less but make higher profits due to higher efficiencies. maybe they could improve multi card technologies so that they actually worked more often than not. one thing that could definitely improve is driver reliability and efficiency.
Boohooo ..... No one is holding are gun to your head and saying buy the extreme enthusiast card or a 30inch monitor for that case. No one forces you to buy a Dodge Viper when a Challenger is a fraction of the price or ford mustang even less.
You buy what is in your price bracket and if that means no 8800 Ultra when they were 1200+ AU$ so be it there is always a 8800GTS and GT etc. 7900 etc will run most new games quiet well.
Maybe we should sue OPEC on fixing petrol prices?
Or what about car companies for charging extreme prices on High end sport cards that all seem to hit around 90000US mark which we know it costs nowhere near that to make.
What's next diamond and gold market fixing prices of precious stones and metals.
You want inervation and accerated progress then these companies need to make larger profits to be able to spend big.
Perhaps you should buy your next cards from elseware... maybe one that that did not spend billions on research and factories ... sorry don't want one that works on valves ... then what about S3 chromo or a matrox more your style.... cyris logic 3dfx Tsing all gone from the scene.
You need to make it big to spend it big...otherwise good bye and good riddens. If you don't like capitalism you can also move the CHINA or RUSSIA and won't get a fair deal there either. You have to pay more in some cases after everyone gets their cut.
Perhaps we need to create an OPEC style organisation to control prices of video cards ... if that is any thing like OPEC expect you video card to cost more than double every 5-7 years. If we went down that road when 3Dfx was king we now be paying about 1500$ gees guess what latest one will cost a lot less.
And I for one want at least double or more performance every 2 years and the new features to boot rather than dribs and drabs of 5% here and 2% there. We have seen in the past what happens to companies that sell themselves cheap and don't spend the millions on R&D they just don't cut it.
You want to run with the big dogs you have to pay for the talent to keep you on anywhere near the top and those guys don't come cheap.
LOL This is hilarious
@MMC65
How naive! Do you REALLY imagine that N-A.T.I-V will really put ANY of the additional profit into faster advances in GPU technology. They become the whole GPU market and sweep all the extra money into the coffers. They keep up a similar R&D and watch as the bag of money just gets bigger and bigger - who pays for it? Us saps!
MMC65, you do realise that the only people who believe monopolies are geniunely good things are monopoly holders and people who have no understanding of economics. Competition drives innovation and cuts prices. When you conspire with the competition, the incentive to improve service all but disappears. Adam Smith worked that out several hundred years ago...
if ati and nvidia are going to join up, why can't they do it for a good purpose, such as making standards that are useful and that everyone actually follows. if this happened maybe they would actually sell more products, or sell less but make higher profits due to higher efficiencies. maybe they could improve multi card technologies so that they actually worked more often than not. one thing that could definitely improve is driver reliability and efficiency.