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To: Simon Cardinale who wrote (7026)9/9/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (3) of 16960
 
You are technicallly right. As far as I or many other people are concerned though, SLI means that I don't waste my existing card and/or can improve it by buying another one. I read somewhere that someone has come up with a way to get TNT and Banshee work together. Now if Banshee can work with TNT, wouldn't it stand to reason that 3Dfx could make it work so much better with their own product lines. I don't buy the arguement that "I don't want one of my products to steal sales from the other one". One way or another you are going to face competition and advance technology. You might as well get that competition from yourself rather than another company.

This discussion was really about marketing rather than technology. So if 3Dfx really made Banshee for OEM and could not have cared less about marketing it to retail channel, then why the OEMs have not lined up in hordes to buy into Banshee? I hear that OEM decisions are made in advance of chip productions and that Banshee is now in full production. Yet only one OEM has agreed to use Banshee and two others are just debating if they should buy into it. I consider this a serious marketing flop. If they had done their job right, some OEMs and card makers would simply trust that whatever comes from 3Dfx is worth carrying and would have announced support for Banshee way before it was even a prototype. Not to mention that time to production sucked; If they'd come up with Banshee 4~6 weeks sooner they'd catch the back-to-school market. Since they missed on that opportunity, they may as well have taken another few weeks and improved on it for the Christmas season.

Sun Tzu
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