On the other hand...
That's not to say we weren't disappointed with Nvidia for squandering the use of its largest yearly event to finally launch a next generation graphics card, or make some sort of feeble attempt to catch up on DX11, or even present something as cool as Eyefinity, whilst AMD steams ahead to the next iteration of its 5800 series.
Speculation was rife that Nvidia's much touted, but ever elusive, Fermi wouldn't in fact appear much before March 2010, despite Nvidia's indignant claims that it would indeed be out by year's end. And even when Fermi does decide to show up, the probability is that it will first be leveraged in Nvidia's higher margin Tesla and Quadro segments, while Geforce gets pushed further and further back.
If we were betting people, we would probably put some money on the fact Nvidia will try to paper launch its next gen offerings, allowing hardware to start trickling into the channel only months later. But we have a long wait ahead of us to discover if we're correct on that front.
Also, unsurprisingly, no mention was made of Nvidia's flailing chipset business, an area where the firm certainly seems to be doing more sinking than swimming of late as AMD and Intel carve up the spoils between them.
