Liitle Blrub from Anand on GeForceFX

[Joe DeFuria]

From the most recent "price guide":

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.html?i=1776&p=7

We should see the first GeForce FX cards around Feb. 3rd or 4th, so we can expect any price protection on the GeForce4 line to dissolve. There have been an awful lot of production problems getting the FX card to market, and obviously no one anticipated this long of a wait. There is also rumor in the industry of some 'creative' marketing approaches being taken by NVIDIA. Our sources say that GeForce FX cards won't hit the full scale online market until after the Chinese New Year. We will just have to wait a few weeks and find out!

As if marketing isn't creative enough... I'm really not looking forward to see how this pans out. If we're lucky, Anand just doesn't know what he's talking about...

Hmmm...to actually have GeForceFX cards available to buy in about a week seems a bit premature as well. Perhaps he means reviews?

 

[Mize]

It's difficult to count the number of times Anand has predicted a then missed NV30 release. I seriously doubt he has any clue. I remember him stating that he had solid info that the NV30 would be out in November...oops.

Mize

 

[megadrive0088]

GFFX is almost a year late

 

[3dcgi]

If that solid info was directly from Nvidia then Anand can't help it if they're wrong. It's obvious that Nvidia misjudged how long it would take to get the FX into production shape.

 

[Tahir2]

Sometimes that SOLID INFO from the horses mouth is solid in the sense that the source KNOWS they are not telling the whole picture but the sourcee (gr??) is not aware of this. It's business, not love and war, where there are some rules Actually scratch that, there are no rules in love either!!

 

[nutball]

It's difficult to count the number of times Anand has predicted a then missed NV30 release. I seriously doubt he has any clue. I remember him stating that he had solid info that the NV30 would be out in November...oops.

Mize

Yes, I remember the CEO of NVIDIA stating that too. Double oops.

 

[DemoCoder]

Delays happen. How many of you are developers/engineers? You've never seen an engineering project go over projected deadlines and budgets? It happens more often than not. The company isn't lying. The engineers estimated it could be completed by date X, they told their boss it would be possible to complete by date X, Nvidia told everyone it would be done by this date, but unpredictable problems came up along the way and it got delayed. It's ludicrous to claim this is unethical behavior. Shit happens, especially in the tech industry.

There is a famous law, I forget the name, let's call it "X's law" like Murphy's law.

It says: Any development project takes twice as long as you estimate, even if you take X's law into account.

 

[arjan de lumens]

Sounds like Hofstadter's Law ...

 

[Fuz]

There is also rumor in the industry of some 'creative' marketing approaches being taken by NVIDIA.

I have said this time and time again, and I am gonna say it again. Nvidia has the best marketing team in the industry. You many not like thier methods, but they get the job done. You can't argue with that (well some here can argue about anything).

I wonder what PR crap they pull out thier arses this time round!

 

[epicstruggle]

Could Nvidia be using anand to spread info that nvidia knows is not true?

just curious,

 

[Joe DeFuria]

It's ludicrous to claim this is unethical behavior. Shit happens, especially in the tech industry.

Um, did anyone say the delay was unethical? What are you actually ranting about this time?