GeForce GTX 480 launches on March 26th …

NVIDIA managed to anger more than a few with its rather weak announcement earlier this week. To top it all off it kind of neglected to mention that it will not only show the cards at PAX next month, but the cards WILL in fact be released at the same time.

Some great media work there …

“Apologies for the confusion around our most recent GF100 update. To clarify, launch date for GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 is March 26, 2010.” – NVIDIA on Twitter

The saddest moment in NVIDIA history. NVIDIA VP Jen-Hsung holding up a fake GeForce GTX 480 card at the GPU Technology Conference last year

It was one of the most confusing announcement I can remember, but in all fairness we should just try to forget the debacle that has been NVIDIA over the last six months and hope that Fermi delivers something fierce … it just has too.