I don't think you get it, and this is why it's funny when I am called "new" around here.
History lesson: When the 68XX series was selling out, and that employee from Fry's (faxon) stated that the cards were flying off the shelves at his store (it was in a Tweakboy thread on 68XX being out of stock at his local Fry's), the Nvidia team surged to the forums to squash the notion that the cards were selling well by scouring the net looking for links speculating about production issues and so on.
So, when AMD cards can't be found on shelves there had to have been (according to the Nvidia team) a lack of supply, and it wasn't seen as a positive result that many of the cards produced were selling. In fact some sites wrote click-generating pieces saying that since AMD wasn't saturating demand that they were "suffering", and those of you with memories like mine will recall the links being produced on this forum. I've posted what I've typed so far without even looking up the relevant threads. That's how well I remember the scenario.
Now that the GTX580 is tough to find (and it is) the Nvidia team are drawing a necessary correlation between low supply and "selling like hotcakes". It's the same situation (but now for Nvidia instead of AMD) and the very same people who were faulting AMD for selling out in stores with the 68XX are praising Nvidia for selling nearly every 580. This is rank hypocrisy that is transparently illustrated as I've just done. Posting the relevant posters' previous posts would be 'calling them out', so I can't. Boo hoo.
I said the same thing then and I'll say the same thing now: if Nvidia are selling every 580 they are making, good for them. It's the best single gpu setup there is these days. I said this back when the 68XX came out regarding AMD's sales and met with huge resistance. I wonder how much resistance I'll garner for saying something positive about Nvidia :whiste:
Not to mention that none of them have bothered to comment on the fact that Nvidia themselves apparently told some websites that for the first few weeks there would be low supply.
I guess NV saying it doesn't matter and they will still push the selling well angle because they don't want to take note of what Nvidia themselves are supposed to have said.
Shows who is sane and who is a blind fanboy, to the point of ignoring the company they are being a fanboy of.
NV: We will have limited supply for a while.
Some people: There are no supply issues!
Durrrrr.
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