I think 3dfx died because they became a real joke after a while. Imagine this, the voodoo 6 was supposed to be such a "powerful" card, that it would require an external power source because the standard AGP slot couldn't possibly give this card enough "power" to do its speed justice

Now ati and nvidia make cards a hell of a lot better than that card would have ever been, and they don't seem to be lacking any "power" to me. Marketing techniques these days, what will they come up with next?