More marketing BS from nVidia to sell yet another overpriced card.
Something that would help game developers perhaps as much without a hardware accelerated calculation engine is for them to learn Geometric Alegbra. Somehow, I doubt that is going to happen.
Although it seems highly unlikely at this point, one can hope for AMD to get their act together. I may just buy used again; even if I wanted to pay those prices, it sounds like the value is not there.
Value, IMO, is all important.
And if they have misjudged the backlash they will get if these cards prove to benchmark not much faster than the last generation.
The way I see it, is that there are people out there who are growing very weary of being bilked insane amounts of money for piddling performance improvements, first from sIntel and now nVidia. To me, it is easy to liken this to cord cutters. The value on each successive generation of silicon is diminishing in comparison to the prices.
There are people out there that I am sure will have to have these new cards and will pay any price for them, however, those who will actually use them will, as I see it, most likely be in the professional arena and will not buy these consumer cards.