Axman
VP of Extreme Liberty
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Nvidia's marketing and naming schemes are partially responsible for this. They not only launched with lofty performance gain numbers, they stressed that these were really happening at the new, lower price.The things people will do to find outrage. "This $700 card is only slightly faster than last year's $1,200 card pushed to its absolute limits! Shock!"
That's turning around to bite them, since they're not going to make the people excited about performance, and that's not going to make people happy about the new pricing coming off the old pricing.
As much confusion as it's made for AMD in the past, a newer, not just simpler, naming scheme could have helped Nvidia out a lot.