It's not scrapped.  Many rumors still point to it launching this year, and expect it to be just a little weaker than the 780.

Your talking about the people who decimated the Titan a year ago.  They are waiting for 20nm and they clearly can wait because their 1 year old GPU's are still competitive with Maxwell.

Look up the leaks on the 390X.  It should be around twice as strong as a 290X.

I knew that it was at least delayed due to the performance but mostly the price of the 970, basically they were forced to put the 290 at the price that the 285X was going to launch.

If they still launch it then great, but the 285X main competitor could end up being the 290, with the former being more power efficient and the later a tiny bit faster.

If your TV is close to the PC and you play more with a controller, why not just hook the PC to it? TVs usually have better image quality than monitor (color, contrast and so on) when we put them aligned properly (low-end TV vs low-end monitor, mid vs mid, high vs high) and the bigger screen is really a plus.

I myself would like to replace my 1080p 22' monitor with a 32' 1080p TV. Big screen, good price. And if you have the space, keep both and play on the big TV and get the work done in the smaller monitor (higher DPI).

That may indeed be part of it.  However what I read was that they wanted to wait for the 960 to come out first so that they could tune clocks/price a little to beat it.  Now that Nvidia is delaying it, maybe AMD isn't sure what to do.  I mean I guess it would be the 290X at $350, 290 at $300, and 285X at $250 ideally.  yeah they would probably have to sell the 285X for $220 considering the 290 is practically stabalizing at $270.

AMD still isn't healthy ...

Sure 1 year old GPUs may still be competitive but AMD will be making losses in the meantime cause a GTX 970 is cheaper to produce than an R9 290X.

I don't care about leaks, what I care most are benchmarks ... 

Of course things could be better.  Their hands are tied though.  Do you think Nvidia was happy when they couldn't respond to the 5870 for 1.5 years!?  Sometimes things just work out like this.

Uh huh ... 

No hard feelings but the gap was 7 months, not a year and a half. 

If I was buying a card today there is no way I would look past the 290X. $360 at Amazon

I think the GTX 970 is the better deal ...