EricHiggin said:
If PC gamers have been willing to pay too much for Nvidia GPU's all these years, then there's little reason why AMD should accept much less if they can come close or match Nvidia going forward. If Nvidia had kept prices reasonable without getting too greedy in the first place, AMD wouldn't be daring to charge more for RDNA now either. Though AMD isn't free of blame because their lack of competition led to Nvidia choosing to raise prices, but Nvidia and Nvidia gamers have indirectly led AMD to choose higher pricing as well. |
But when you think of it that way, what other choice do I have in that already small high end market?, buy lesser hardware, in the hopes AMD might one day actually bring their A-game?.
AMD just isn't trying hard enough, and they've allowed Nvidia to gain quite a great deal of leeway and mind share. Because they are going to charge high means that those paying higher prices allow for it. I personally don't, because my limit budget is at least £7-800, but the recent prices for high end have gone beyond that already.
Really though, we could say this to just about any market in the games industry. MT's are now steadily grounded in many games, because casuals don't think they are harmful and thus allow them to permeate throughout the entire industry, to a point that we laughably are seeing the car industry enforcing a subscription service for heated car seats, and I know the media side (Netflix) and the gaming side (consoles/MT's) have shown a different industry that it's okay to adopt a bad practice, because casuals will allow and support it's growth.
Those that are paying even more out the backside for the latest RTX cards are thus setting a bad example, in saying that AMD and Nvidia can charge high, because those people can seemingly somehow afford those cards, despite people like me currently not being able to. It's just a different number of people auto dictating how a market should be run, without actually telling the market directly. It's just how we are as a species sadly, just look at shitty laws being passed, because normie folk don't care, or don't read too much into it. Look at the car industry with subscriptions for heated seats, or high end GPU's now all costing a kidney.
There's no core co-operation and dedication within each industry's group of consumers, because everyone wants what they want for themselves, not what their choices could do to the industry in general. Look at consoles and how one console charged for online, because now all 3 do, because one group of consumers said "yeah, that's fine, keep charging me", and now all 3 suffer that fate.
In short, I hate normies, casuals and the 0000.1% rich folk that pay out the arse for something that could be far greater than what it currently lacks. Both sides cause their own damage, and they either don't care, or don't know what they are doing.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
