Chazore said:
I feel like because of the way the world is atm (covid lingering, war on the EU side, Recession kicking in, crypto still hanging around, Nvidia being greedy), that some retailers and ppl selling those cards are just being non-ashamedly greedy, because those are last gen cards, ppl want the latest, or at least middle best of the latest, so there isn't any real need to raise the prices of last gen cards to current gen prices. It just comes off as pure selfish greed. I've not had this big of an issue with GPU's since forever ago, and these days it's either out of stock or well beyond my price reach, or just a shit line-up. Like what a laughable and bad state GPU's are in atm. |
Yeah, and it's just so jarring, seeing as CPUs and motherboards are priced much more reasonably in comparison. As is storage and RAM; you can get som big, blazing fast M.2 drives for cheap now, and memory is bargain bin compared to a couple of years back. Paying +- 600$ for a top-of-the-line CPU wasn't unreasonable even years ago, nor was 350-400$ a crazy amount for a good MOBO. I remember paying triple price for my RAM due to the tsunami in Asia, which made perfect sense since several production facilities were literally washed away. Big fires have also impacted pricing. But GPU prices seem to be flying in the face of all other hardware right now.
The automotive industry has largely recovered, as has appliance sectors, the chip shortage turned into a chip surplus, after all. Here in Stockholm, car dealerships have overflowing storages of unsold cars since factories went into overdrive after the shortage, and are tossing out bargains left and right (been looking for cars for work for the past six months or so). There are other factors behind that as well (like new EU policies and crazy taxation), but the point is that the shortage crisis is largely solved across the board (pun very much intended). Heck; even the PS5 can be found out in the wild now! :P
