Conspiracy from the InQ, whoda thunk it?
this is why teh 8800GT is so spectacular, but Nvidia may have jsut shot itelf in the foot.
The thing is, no matter what they were in trouble with such a card, unless they can bring out a worthy replacement of the high end cards.
Holding back mid-range sales to protect the tiny niche GTX/Ultra sales makes little sense, and protecting the more expensive to make GTS instead of the GT also doesn't make much sense (although higher pricing of the GT may have made it more easily apparent that the right strategy would be simply to drop the GTS all together).
Now potentially leaving sales on the table and leaving an opening for HD38xx sales to come from customers saying "Well I was going to buy a GF8800GT for Crysis, but there aren't any and I need someting now, guess I'll buy an HD38xx instead" doesn't make much sense. It may be a wicked card and really good pricing/clocking, but if you can't get sufficient numbers out to market at that combo, they're leaving alot of money on the table, or in price gouging resellers hands ($300 GTs doesn't benefit nVidia it benifits AIB partners [if they can up their delivery price] and e-tailers like NewEgg, etc).
Either way this doesn't look like a good strategy if it's manufactured to protect the GTX/Ultra, whose sales were likely very flat before the GT arrived.
Worth of 'Conspiracy' don't think so, but still very strange and somewhat disturbing if even partly true.
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a blooming monkey could run a business better. 
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