Nvidia still has their chipset business, workstation cards and a huge line up of mainstream VGA cards as the meat and potatoes of their VGA card business. Apparently those top end enthusiast cards don't add up to a major portion of their overall business. 5,000-8,000 cards is not much even if they were taking big profit margins on each card, which they aren't. The main thing Nvidia loses from the uninspiring Fermi is prestige. Technically, they will still have the fastest single GPU cards, just overpriced and below what was initially claimed.
I guess this just means Nvidia will continue to use its 2 gen old G90 series GPUs and last gen R200s for their bulk sellers. But if they start cutting out the GTX260, 275 and 285, I'm really not sure what they plan on selling to fill in the gaps. Not more rebadged G90 chips at any rate.
Clearly ATI has the better business plan with respect to their VGA cards this gen.
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