CHEAP Full-frame 24.5MP Nikon DSLR - Due Date

This is kind of hard to swallow, and I can't claim to understand
Nikon's priorities. But it seems that the next few Nikkors to be
released (all FX of course, DX is dead except for a few token bits
of glass crumbs that may be thrown to pre-D3 Nikon DSLR users) are

Nikkor AF-S VR-II 200mm f1.8D

Nikkor AF-S VR-II 300mm f2D

Nikkor AF-S VR-II 400mm f2.5D

Nikkor AF-S VR-II 70-200mm f2.5D

Each of the four sets new standards for speed in its focal range.

Since the D3 and D700 give unsurpassed high ISO performance, usable
up to 3200 ISO for most applications (and passable at 6400 ISO), with
D3X almost as good, why is there this obsession with speed?

I don't have the weights as yet but they are going to be phenomenal.
Specially the 300mm f2 (158mm front filter size if you wanted to use
it!) and the 400mm f2.5

f2.5 is not such a strange aperture, Nikon used it before on the 105mm
approx. half a century ago. It is more than 1/3rd stop faster than an
f2.8.