Nvidia slides reveal supreme mastery of PR spinning
 

Let's start out by saying that Nvidia pulled in the G92 launch day about two weeks and in doing so, compressed the time people had with parts before the Oct 29 launch date. Because of this, it's said to have invited only sites that had two people working on graphics to the event, so one could be bored to tears by the marketing slides while the other ran the benchmarks.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...eal-masterhood

I can't be bothered to read it but if you put together the information that the original MSRP was 300 $ (now 250) and they pulled the launch 2 weeks ahead shows they seem to get really hurt by the HD2900XT sales or they are affraid of the 2900GT so they launch a preemptive strike (and the 8800GT at 250 is a high yield H-Bomb for that matter).