NVIDIA Shipped 400.000 Geforce 8800 Cards
 

Close to half a million since October last year:

"Nevertheless, in terms of unit shipments, the GeForce 8 family of graphics processors will not crossover with the GeForce 7 lineup till late-2007 or even early-2008, partly because of the GeForce 7’s advantages, partly because not a lot of customers see benefits in DirectX 10 just now and are looking forward more affordable solutions. Nevertheless, the chief of Nvidia indicated that the company will see over a half of its revenue coming from the GeForce 8 family already in late Q3 or Q4, which may mean that the firm hopes to launch mainstream GeForce 8 graphics chips in late Q2 or early Q3 2007.

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those "advantages of the 7 series" are power consumption