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To: joel3 who wrote (11293)	3/22/1999 2:37:00 PM
From: timbur	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

2nd half 1998 sales Grandmaster B (Brian Hook) comments from voodooextreme.com March 22nd, 1999 - (8:00am MST) Some people got upset by my comment: "As important as some say think 3Dfx is, their sales numbers are CRUSHED by the Rage Pro and RivaTNT." Specifically, they concentrated on the usage of the term "CRUSHED", and specifically the notion that RivaTNT sales crushed 3Dfx sales. To be on the up and up, I asked the various hardware manufacturers to provide sales numbers from the second half of 1998 so that readers can judge for themselves. The numbers are: VG/V2/Banshee 1998: 5.9M units Riva 128/ZX/TNT 1998: 7.5M units RagePro 1998: 23M units You can draw your own conclusions, however it's pretty obvious that RivaTNT doesn't crush combined 3Dfx numbers, so that was erroneous on my part (although I believe I meant to say "NVidia", not "RivaTNT", but oh well, I said what I said), but NVidia still outsold 3Dfx by about 27%, which is not an insignificant lead. And yeah, RagePro _does_ pretty much f*cking (edited) annihilate the rest of the market. Numbers were provided by the IHVs directly, without requiring an NDA. So, in theory, they could be lying to me.