Just a rumors ... or real fact?

[xortam]

Matrox may not want to, as we in the industry used to say, "pull an Osborne". Does anybody remember Osborne and know what I'm referring to?

[HedsSpaz]

Jammrock, they also have a booth at IDF, which is drawing nigh rapidly. It starts Feb 27th if I remember correctly.

Also, GDC is approximately one week before CEBIT.

So, here's what I think would be the sensible thing for Matrox to do (also what I'm hoping they will do ).
Announce and possibly first demo at IDF.
Slightly more in depth demo at GDC.
All stops pulled for CEBIT.

Or something along those lines.

My reasoning is this. If Matrox wants to capture any reasonable attention in the admittedly niche gaming market, they need to demo something brilliant and new at GDC. I know they have been spending a lot of focus on the buisness markey lately, but I also don't think they want to call it quits in the gaming market. GDC is going to be their last big chance to make a splash in that market until summer, which, IMO, will be too late. IDF and CEBIT are very big name conferences, but the reps from the gaming market aren't garaunteed to be at those.

Anyway, that's my (possibly flawed) logic.

Heres to hoping!!

Ian

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[Alec]

Hey dudes, OF COURSE Matrox is going to announce some new card! I mean, it´s go to! I can´t imagine the Matrox dudes sleeping all day at the premisses for 2 years. All in all, they are VIDEO CARD manufacturers.
My guess is that they are going to announce some new spanking good card, even if it´s not primarily to win the 3D market. Probably a card that in 3D will cause the same impact as the G400 did in its release time. And that´s good enough for me.

[Indiana]

I'd also like to second PaulR, only that I had my "deadline" set at christmas last year .
I waited much longer than this - but now, with ATIs reduced prices I couldn't resist and got myself a Radeon.

It's cheap enough now even to be a "stop-gap" solution and if Matrox really announces something great in March I don't believe it'll be available in quantities until late summer or even fall 2001 here in germany.
I like to wait some months after a products release, anyway (makes things A LOT cheaper).

P.S.: About the Radeon: the drivers that came with it were simply TERRIBLE (both low performance and lots of bugs) but the newest drivers are OK: can't say that much, but had no probs in the short time I've used them - both Win2k and Win98.
The Radeons 2D is good, it's 16Bit rendering is A LOT worse than the G400's, but then who needs 16Bit with the Radeon?
Overall 3D image-quality in most of nowadays games is still better on the G400 as on the Radeon/Geforces: better colors (can't describe it better), crisper image - if there wasn't that stupid performance-issue.

To me a card with Matrox image-quality and double G400-speed would be enough - can't be that hard, now can it?


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[Helevitia]

gurm, not all games play great or even good on a G400 anymore. MechWarrior4 for example, can be played with every single setting set to the highest possible except for Anti-aliasing(well, actually, I haven't tried yet, but I would assume it wouldn't) with my Radeon. I have not tried it on my G400 but my brother has a TNT2 and he has to turn everything down and play @ 800x600 for acceptable playability. when you own a very nice 21" monitor, you want to be able to use it's capabilities and one of those for me is to play games at very high resolutions with superior graphics which I would not be able to do with my G400.

Dave

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[GT98]

Well I'm also getting impationate about waiting for Matrox's next Video Card. I went out and got a Radeon AIW card to replace my G400Max in my current system, since I want my current system to do video editing etc(also couldn't find a rainbow runner)and also have better performance playing games NOW. I'm looking at getting completely new system in the next 6 months or so with a 1Ghz + Althlon system with DDR RAM and onboard RAID. The time I go to buy this system is hinging on when ever Matrox is going to come out with its next gen video card so I'm not worried too much about waiting till the summer time or so, since all the other prices will drop on the other compents I need to put together a system .

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[Jon P. Inghram]

Amiga is going to be announcing what they've been up to at the St. Louis Amiga convention on March 30th-April 1st. Now assuming that Amiga did in fact pick the next-gen Matrox card, and that there will be more than just vaporware at the convention, it's quite possible that there will be some mention of the card, if not a real live system with it on display.

[Gurm]

PaulR,

Be patient just a while longer. April might be a tad too soon to judge... or it might not. Can't honestly say.

- Gurm

[Marshmallowman]

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[NordicNINE]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by dZeus:
Matrox indeed evangalized MPS on MS Meltdown 2000, and when Matrox advertises technologies, they usually implement it in their next product. But even then, MPS won't make their next videocard targeted at gamers necessarily. It wouldn't surprise me if Matrox doesn't think the G800 will be suffucient for hardcore gamers by the time it's finished. However, maybe Matrox will please the hardcore gamers group in another way?

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Now this sounds interesting.

[IceStorm]

The person who runs the site said:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">I too will wait until around April when I'll have a bit of spare cash and buy whatever appears to be the best solution for my gaming machine for the money I have available.</font>

I think I'll hold off on that Gladiac 920 pre-order for five weeks...

[Amiga Blitter]

Meltdown or not, the Gforce3 is out?
MAtrix Palette Skinning?
The Gforce3 already have because is fully programmable.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Yeah, it's a real bargin at $700!

Troll...

[Joel]

And what about MPS?? Any card that is DX8 compatible will be able to do it.

Joel

[Rob M.]

Well, I'm not going to wait much longer. If both Carmack and Sweeney agree that the nv20 is the best thing they've seen come their way lately, the nv20 is for me. I've been wanting to upgrade for about a year now, I figure Matrox has between 1-2 months to convince me otherwise. $600 may hurt, but you know it's good for a couple of years. Break it down to $25 a month... When you want something badly enough you can find ways to rationalize anything