Nvidia has its entry-level Geforce 9 parts ready, but it has decided to postpone them. It simply has too many 8400 and 8500 cards out on the market.

Nvidia off loaded a lot of 8400GS and 8500GT cards to its partners and now cannot launch the Geforce 9500 and 9400, as the launch of the cheap Geforce 9 would instantly kill the sales of cheap Geforce 8 parts.

Some companies sell quite a few 8500GT cards with 1024MB of memory, but the majority have a problem  getting rid of the cheap 8400 and 8500GT parts.

The original plan was to launch the Geforce 9500 and 9400 in Q1, but this obviously won’t happen as theis coming Friday is the last working day in Q1 2008 and it becomes clear that Geforce 9500 and 9400 are Q2 products.