Originally Posted by
TooNice
I disagree. I think it's great we have all those options...
...just kidding. I'd say this isn't totally new (and not long ago I did a similar rant on hard drives in another forum) but the problem is that should've liquidated out the old stock before introducing the new. There is no reason why we should still be able to G80 GTS, few reasons to have the GS/256MB GT and the 9600 (makes sense to have one 'filler' product prior the 9600's release, but not two). The price of the Ultra is still ridiculous, you would've thought that they'd slash the price after the release of 3870X2, if not the G92 (to narrow the price gap). The GTX became obsolete with the G92 GTS (same performance give or take), cost them (larger process) and the consumer more. NVidia have good engineers, but I wonder if they are just hiring a bunch of placement students with no interest in this field to work in their marketing department.
When the Radeon 9600 series, it replaced the 9500 (much to the chagrin of some people). The X1900 series replaced the X1800 pretty quick too. I am not sure why they are churning out so many cards without retiring old ones first.