They haven't said they'd stop making gaming cards. But they haven't really said much anything about Fermi's gaming capability. All they talk is GPGPU, CUDA etc. Still Fermi is a DX11 card, and it should handle games fairly well. It's maybe 3/2 bigger than 5870, so it should also be that much faster, and that much more expensive. We just don't know yet how good it is. It might suck. It might not. Those who think it's going to be cheap have lost their minds.
I considered the new 5770, but since it's sold for 140-150€, and the performance is sub 4870, it wasn't good enough even with dx11 and whatnot. I can update to a new dx11 card after a year, when there's actually some dx11 games. Still I think 5770 is a decent card, and a good choice if you want to buy a new card, but since I got the 275 so cheap it wasn't a hard choice, especially after seeing the performance difference in UT3.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/HD_5770/23.htmlNvidia camp here I come! I can already feel the noob fanboy in me raising it's ugly head!
Oh, and don't mind Charlie from SemiAccurate. He's the #1 Nvidia hater.