I can kind of understand why good V2 sales might be considered as a negative for 3dfx. Some people may construe this as people buying other 2D/3D main boards and then tacking on a Voodoo-2 card for cheap Glide compatibility. This is certainly being touted in some of the Computer mags. Computer Gaming World's killer rig for August (unlimited price range -- $8,676) has a TNT-2 in the main slot and an Quantum 3D Obsidian X24 (single slot Voodoo-2 SLI) as a secondary card. More inportantly, the "Lean & Mean" rig from CGW for August has a Voodoo-3 3000 ($1992). Of course, other people are still selling the Voodoo-2 boards (where are they getting the chips still? is 3dfx still supplying third parties with Voodoo-2's???)
But, 3dfx's Voodoo-2 boards (at $99 smackaroos) are still selling! At 99 bucks that has to be a great profit margin. And, they are outselling all other third party Voodoo-2 boards! Both in quantity sold and price! (But they ain't outselling Voodoo-3's by any stretch of the imagination...)
I think all this proves is that Glide is more powerful and in demand than many people have given it credit for. Pure and simple.
By the way, I'm sure everyone's heard of the AlienWare system that has a TNT-2 in the AGP slot and a Voodoo-3 in a PCI slot ($3299)? Well, the same company is also selling an $899 system (sans monitor) that has a "3DFX Voodoo-3 w/16MB TV-OUT 2x AGP". That sure sounds like a V3-3000 to me. So, how can they afford to put a $179 list board in an $899 machine that also has: 400Mhz Celeron, 64 MB SDRAM, 8.4 GB hard drive, Aureal Vortex II sound card, plus speakers, 40x CDROM, and a 56k modem? Is the OEM price that cheap for the 3000, or is there maybe a special version of the 2000 that's OEM and has TV out?
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