^There's definitely going to be a Ti, infact three variants have been rumored to be coming out. This is the vanilla GM206, the other two will mostly be cut down GM204 chips. The bulk of the market lies between $200-$320, they won't leave that huge gap for AMD to conquer with their price cuts. Comparing older products and their prices in today's date is pointless too, no one will buy this if it's around 18k.
Yea 22nd is the paper launch, think it was already posted above. Not interested in getting this though, terrible specs.