Some ATI partners are expected to lower the prices of Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 series but this action is not something that will happen overnight.

We have learned that key people at AMD are still waiting to see how many Fermi cards will be available and they will only react if Nvidia manages to have really great sales with its Geforce 400 series.

Some partners might slightly adjust their 5800 series pricing, and get the prices slightly down, but this action won’t be supported by AMD. The partners will simply cut down their own share of profit.

This has yet to happen and only a few will make such a move, but in the meantime we still have at least one week before we see Fermi in etail / retail stores.