People will always complain.
If they know no details about the product, they complain there is no information.
If there is information, well the card isn't available to buy just yet.
If the card ia available, it isn't the cooler desired or AIB desired or the price isn't right or maybe it doesn't have a pink sticker.
True, but it's a question of degrees. People are a lot LESS happy with having to wait to even see real reviews of a thing. Remember, AMD's been tossing out a lot of "You can review a PART of this product, but not the WHOLE product" and "Here's some slides describing percentage of improvement at predetermined settings and resolutions with only a select set of games that absolutely show us in the best possible light."
Then toss in weeks to wait for the reviews and weeks to wait for the sales of the cards, it just strikes me this is a recipe for a lot more angst than the typical, "It didn't use the AIB cooler I wanted" and "The price ain't right, Bob!"
That said, I think if AMD is announcing the Steambox post-Steam announcement at 1 PM today (their thing is at 3 PM), then I think AMD is doing gaming right because they're going to be practically everywhere. A real and frank discussion about Crossfire, Eyefinity, and Linux all in the same day, too, would be most welcome.
It is fascinating to watch Linux support explode around Valve's very public support and I don't mind it. The only reason I still use Windows right now is because of my games. If one day PC's were fast enough to WINE my current titles and presumably SteamOS were capable enough to do that fluidly, then I just don't think I'd be using anything Microsoft by choice.
I get that sense we're at some sort of PC gaming crossroads more than I've gotten in a long time. For AMD to be a big part of that would be a major coup for them considering their owning the next gen consoles already.
It would also be a terrible blow to nVidia's reputation and no amount of Tegra, Titan, or pricecuts will soften that. To add on top of that talk of a new high end card to supplant the GF 780 as the high end card, well... it will give AMD a lot of positive momentum going into the holiday season when a lot of GPU's are bought.
Especially ahead of Battlefield 4, which may well wind up a part of the Never Settle bundle (though it may not and just be given a minor discount as EA did in prior versions of Never Settle).
Exciting days ahead. I'm more excited about SteamOS and Steambox than I am yet another $500+ GPU, though.
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