I don't even know what the first paragraph means. Nvidia's gaming business has never done better, whether or not it's good for gamers.Whats the joke about a 1 billion dollar company acting like this. "Now you know why we are a 1.1 billion dollar company".
Its such a small sector of Nvidias overall business that they are penny pinching to this degree. Last thing they want is sending out vouchers to retailers warehousing high quantities of previous generation stock that is in essence a competitor to their current release. Theyve even taken it a step further starting in the 4000 series. By reducing the specs of their X070 and lower cards.
Again in any business with tiered product stacks it makes no sense to sell 2 generations at once. Advances have slowed on the low end but what can you do. They sell well and no one has been able to compete.

