[citation][nom]dogman_1234[/nom]More than 800 dollars for the 970?!Intel please, get real!Seriously, If I were them, a good 600 dollars would be good. The 980 would be about 780 buck: Realisticaly.[/citation]
As long as they have no real competition at the high end, they have no real incentive to drop the pricing. Intel's Nehalem based hexacores are unmatched for multithreaded performance, and anyone who actually needs that performance is usually willing to pay $800+ for it. For everyone else, they have other, cheaper quad cores that are still incredible. Don't expect the hexacores to drop in price until either Intel releases something new on the very high end, or until AMD actually brings out something that can compete.