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The GeForce GTX 1080 Is The Best Selling High-End Card Ever Released – AIBs Confirm

Greebo said:
Agreed for a high end expensive card it is very successful. But I don't believe evga thought they would only sell 70 in the first three weeks. The shortages aren't really down to demand as much as lack of supply.
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Weren't the 980, 980Ti and 970 also all sold out when they released? The difference now of course is that they had big new shipments constantly coming in by now for those cards, whereas partners are still suffering heavy shortages almost one month after launch! (For the 1080 at least)
 
tommybhoy said:
Ha ha, depends whether it's pro Nv or no whether you believe wccftech

It's a 'Titan flies off the shelves' PR re run, you sucked it up then as now, might as well wrap it in sand paper it's a rough ride at the top.:p.
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Does it really matter? Those saying Gibbo is lying and the article is NVidia PR etc is rather desperate reading. I am loving the performance of my 1080, so that is all I care about and not what some article has to say or some rabid fanboys.
 
Gregster said:
Does it really matter? Those saying Gibbo is lying and the article is NVidia PR etc is rather desperate reading. I am loving the performance of my 1080, so that is all I care about and not what some article has to say or some rabid fanboys.
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rabid fanboys go both ways my friend, the statement isn't from Nvidia, it isn't from AIB, it's from an unknown source(supposedly close to an AIB), but one thing is sure nobody is taking credit or responsibility for it, in any other thread this would be treated as a Rumor, but not here, this is hard cold truth, straight out gospel :D.
i am skeptic and honestly do not believe it, simply because of the reality in front of my eyes, and the context in which this apears, while concern rises about stock, and general fanboy conviction that it's not lack of stock but rather univers shattering sales that Nvidia cannot keep up with, and just happens an article that no official party backs up by a confirmation or numbers, says just what ppl wants to hear.
if reality showed me something else, if the context was different, if the company's prior didnt give me reasons to doubt with similar behaviour, i would'v taken the article by it's face value, sadly i do not :D
besides just quick browsing on the internet and you can see what ppl wanna hear, why dont you just give them what they want, especialy if you stay far away from it.
see when i have an opinion i have arguments that leads me to it, i am not rabid in my bias, but very much pragmatic.
 
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Gregster said:
Does it really matter? Those saying Gibbo is lying and the article is NVidia PR etc is rather desperate reading. I am loving the performance of my 1080, so that is all I care about and not what some article has to say or some rabid fanboys.
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Whats this thread got to do with Fanboys?? What so just because I disagree with Gibbo or the Thread link am now a Fanboy? Grow Up Greg
 
Well, I like my tech, like gaming, much prefer Nvidia to AMD and can afford a 1080.

But, personally,I think to myself ~ £600+ for what'll ultimately be a mid range graphics card? **** that!
 
Same really. I can literally put this on my company and claim as business expense (SLI is good for CAD no?) but still can't get around that price.
 
This was always going to happen, first card released with a process shrink and no competition from AMD.

Would have been exactly the same with the 680 if the 7970 didn't exist.
 
Mayh3M said:
Well on a personal level, what he says doesn't influence my decision making at all. I bought the 1080 weeks before he made that statement.

To say Gibbo's statement is untrue would be to call him a liar, plain and simple. That ain't cool.
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What isn't cool is accepting everything you hear at face value.

That's the very definition of being a cukold.
 
All this nonsense from a bit of a chip paper article.

To sum it up.

1. OCUK will see this as a big win for sales and rightly so. Gibbo congratulations again.
2. Majority of thinking is the GTX 1080 is overpriced
3. Shortage of stock is very poor sales planning and caused consumer anger.
4. Retailers taking advantage of low stock and selling high is frowned upon but business is business.
 
whyscotty said:
That's still a sale?
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Well hence my question really? Most places except ocuk, dont take payment on pre-orders. therefore is it a sale on the day the pre-order is placed or when its dispatched and payment is taken?

I know some people with more than one pre-order in at several places and once the first pre-order is shipped, they will cancel the other ones.

Although admittedly most pre-orders will become sales in the end even its its for a different card than originally pre-ordered.

But it matters if you are going to write an article claiming highest sales ever on day 1. Unless of course both the 780 and 980ti had even fewer cards available on first day?

Which then also becomes a very moot point. If its solely on actually cards in stock and the 780 and 980ti say only had 1000 available worldwide and sold out but the 1080 had 1500 and also sold out, claiming the 1080 smashed first day sale records is a bit disingenuous. Who is to say the 780 or 980ti wouldnt have outsold it if more stock was available?

To me it smacks as trying to justify the total lack of decent stock of AIB cards and the 10 to 20% price gouging going on at the moment.
 
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