Bodhesatva said:
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. |
Yeah, utility per dollar is pretty much what I was going for. I've long since stopped dropping my jaw at technology which is amazing, yet impractical (read: expensive).
I do appreciate that AMD is pursuing values beyond mere performance, though.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
*Image indefinitely borrowed from BrainBoxLtd without his consent.
