Voodoo3 - #1 in sales. (so what?)

According to the most recent PC Data report on July sales figures, 3dfx had four of the top six boards at U.S. retail, with the Voodoo3 2000 PCI coming in as the best selling graphics card in terms of both unit shipments and revenues. In addition to the top position, the Voodoo3 family scored the second and third spots with the 2000 AGP coming in second and the 3000 AGP placing third. The Voodoo3 line has held the title for best selling cards since their introduction in April. In the U.K., 3dfx products accounted for almost 64 percent of all graphics boards sold in the region." A more Important, and revealing fact is that 3DFX lost 21 cents per share last Q, and took a massive hit on the price of the stock, allmost 50%. This all in spite of the fact that sales were good. 3DFX has allways been #1 in sales, big deal. 3DFX is a company that never had any REAL competition. now they do. Now RivaTnT is killing them, not in sales, but by taking away marketshare at the same time 3DFX came out with a new product at discount prices. Rik (owner of a V3 2000, and i like it) Rik Anthrax - - "trust the government?? what are you, some kind of moron?"

What I believe he was trying to say is that Nvidia is taking away enough of the market share that combined with the lower price of the Voodoo3 cards and the one-time hit of merging with STB, 3dfx's stock and value went down. Rose colored glasses suck.

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> On 23 Sep 1999 21:05:15 GMT, > > RivaTnT is killing them, not in sales, but by taking away > >marketshare at the same time 3DFX came out with a new product at discount > >prices. > Uhh.. taking away 'market share'? Read the article again. It sounds > like 3dfx is DOMINATING market share in the video card market. > -- > * rrevved at mindspring dot com > * unit.26 s.p.u.t.u.m. > * http://www.cabal.net

Uhh.. taking away 'market share'? Read the article again. It sounds like 3dfx is DOMINATING market share in the video card market. I didnt get my info from the article... I got it from 3DFX's 2nd quarter report. TnT is taking away a piece of the market that untill now was dominated by 3DFX. ANY TnT card sold is a piece of 3DFX's market. Rik Anthrax - - "trust the government?? what are you, some kind of moron?"