Yep people do have short memorys..
It's not just 'Titan'. AMD priced 7XXX series way above any series they had previously released, at the time Nvidia launched a card that was faster (GTX 670 / 680) (Stock VS Stock) for a cheaper price.
So you could argue AMD started the price inflation..
AMD launched the HD7970 at the price points of the GTX580 1.5GB and 3GB and Nvidia responded by doing nothing for months.
Its hilarious people find it OK for Nvidia for price their performance cards really highly,and then say in the same sentence AMD cannot.
The HD6970 was priced to match the GTX570,and was slower than the GTX580.
The HD7970 was faster than the GTX580,and the worlds fastest graphics card. Big difference.
Moreover,the GTX280,GTX285,GTX480 and GTX580 were all very expensive. The X1950XTX which was the fastest card at is release,was expensive. The 8800GTX was expensive.
People have very short memories about the 8800 Ultra,which was the equivalent price of the Geforce Titan.
In fact everytime, bar one, in the last 7 years that either AMD or Nvidia has held the fastest single card spot,the price has been high.
AMD did a highly unusual thing with the HD5870 in underpricing it for its peformance,which was rare.
If anything the period of relatively low cost performance cards was down to to AMD and the HD4850 and HD4870,which were incredibly cheap for their performance levels at launch,even they were not the fastest graphics card at the time. The HD5850 and HD5870 followed this and the HD6950 and HD6970 followed it to a much lesser degree.
You could argue that Nvidia by maintaining the the £390+ graphics card segment over the last 7 years(instead of doing an HD5800 or HD4800 series move),has had a direct hand in AMD trying to exploit that segment. This is considering they have boasted about how well their GTX690 and Geforece Titan/GTX780 sales have been. Of course AMD is going to exploit this,if there is money to be made. Its not some charity.
If you want to complain,its the people spending silly amounts(over £400) on getting that 20% to 30% boost. They are the reason why all of this is happening. You cannot blame companies when you have people,gifting away their money.
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