New AMD Graphics Chip More Powerful Than Every Console Combined

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famousringo said:
Let me know when it gets down below $100.

C'mon early adopters! Soak those research costs so that us console owners can enjoy our quality games with this chipset next generation!

 

It's actually usually the other way around; margins for these products upon release are usually extremely slim. They use the marketshare traction gained from the early adopters to drive the sales up the adoption curve.

It's technically the mid-to-late adopters who are paying the most in terms of raw technical value. Of course, one could argue utility and function (since we're basically viewing these cards not as technology, but as a product that allows us to play games), but that's a different argument altogether.