| JEMC said: That's excellent news! Also, it could mean that MSoft has no plans to stop putting its games on Steam anytime soon. Otherwise, they wouldn't go through all the work and hassle of closing this launcher and moving it to Steam. |
Yep, though I haven't used it in some time at least now its all in one place. There weren't that many games on that store anyways so one less thing for MS to maintain. Hoping the same thing will happen to Battle.net as well, eventually. Though I don't see that going away any time soon (unfortunately).
Captain_Yuri said:
It will be but it depends on your target. If you are going to buy purely based on class such as a 4080, you are gonna need to prepare to spend the big bux. And that's before the retailer markup and combos and stuff and you need to try and get one before mining boom happens. But if you buy based on performance, it could be a different story. In theory, a 4060 Ti could be as powerful as a 3080 for lets say $450. Do you need more performance than a 3080? How about a 3090 performance for $600? Really depends on your needs but all I can say is, if you are on Pascal or earlier, upgrade to whatever Lovelace GPU will be available. Cause the crypto clock will be ticking and anything above a 4060 will be a massive upgrade. |
I can see the upper end cards shuffled in price again. Nvidia definitely didn't want to sell the RTX 3080 at $699 this gen, as we can see from those variants - 12GB and Ti's so they'll price these ones according.
If Lovelace bring big IPC gains, cost to performance for lower mid range cards could make 4060Ti the new upper mid ranged for consumers. And if leakers are to be believed RNDA 3 cards are going to be even more pricey (an sounding more performant in raster) than Nvidia counterparts. So we'll be getting a quite substantial jump in performance either way, its just the high end tier may be priced out of reach for some consumers or PC gamers. Hoping the Crypto bubble will burst and people stop buying overpriced cards so prices of current GPU's will go down.
Granted I don't need a GPU now, in the next upcoming year and beyond I'm going to want a strong card that has RT and DLSS so will try and get a RTX 4070 at the very least.
