Why was the Voodoo5 released before Voodoo4?

[phlashphire]

Sorry if this discussion was done.

 

[Stringy]

This is pretty much a no brainer...
1st, you have the GF selling out on store shelves without a major competitor, and the V5 is the main competitor to the GF, not the V4...

2nd, Since the V5 uses 2 chips, they can only produce half as many V5's, so to get the competing product out on the market in volume they devoted all the yields to the V5...

the V4 is a Low end product, these sell well, but they don't offer the most profit, the V5, even with 2 GPU's and 2 banks of RAM still offer more profit than the V4, because for the V4 to be viable it has to have a low price...



Craig

 

[Pocatello]

3dfx should have called all of them voodoo 4.

 

[Shudder]

It's all numbering semantics, no biggie.

Release the high end first (GF2, V5) and grab the people's money who want to upgrade.

Then release the value (V4, GFMX) to suck up the rest. Release this first and people who bought a voodoo4 would be pissed and/or broke and not buy a V5.

Although at this point I think the V3 would be the value and for 75 bucks is a much better buy than the GFMX at 120, jmo.