They sold over a million 970s in the first two months. The number was mentioned when the VRAM issue happened.
45-60 million AIB a year... and looking at Steam a decent percentage are higher cost cards. I wish we could get real numbers... kinda curious.
Numbers don't lie, its widely reported market for gtx 970 and 290 cards is about 7.5 million at that price point. So you can only push vr to 7.5 million people at this time if you were to saturate that base. Now you have faster performance at 200 (if thats true) which one would you pick? Now you have all those other people that don't want to spend the kind of money on 970 or 1070. they have an option at 200. That is an insane amount of market share. All those people that are cash strapped will now be able to get faster performance at 200. It just makes sense. Imagine dell, hp, and other manufacturer putting these cards in and slapping vr ready logo on there.. for cheap.