@eklipz330 "what i can't understand is how people can manage to stay loyal to the green team especially when they've been using monopolistic tendencies when it comes to pricing their cards... seriously, dropping a cards price point at the snap of a finger by hundreds of dollars, and they're still profiting like monsters i bet.
and yet, people will continue to eat up their products like mindless sheep. guess a lot of people have disposable income."
because nvidia puts the money towards research & development, not just making a profit. it's how they are able to stay on top of things and put out powerful and efficient products. their profits haven't increased substantially, in fact i'm pretty sure they've dropped over the last several years while they're market share has remained relatively stable, so this would indicate they are not just overpricing products to "profit like monsters". in 2012 their revenue was $4 billion and their net income was $581 million. they spent over $1 billion on R&D alone.
if you don't want to spend the premium on the best products out there or have that same company continue to push out great and efficient products, that's entirely on you and has nothing to do with people being "mindless sheep." i find it kinda funny that you would even call others that, when it seems like you just have a blatant bias against nvidia and don't seem to understand how companies work and operate. do you really think AMD wouldn't do the same thing if they had the market share and quality that nvidia puts out?
then again, there's a simple solution to this... you don't like the price? don't buy it.