JEMC said: My comment was focused more on the free will of pricing them the way they want or if they'd be forced by Nvidia to price them as the rest. A smart company would go for the middle ground, charging more than they could but still being something like $100 cheaper than anyone else to sell more units. |
Well, mind that AIB partner margins are below 10% nowadays and Nvidia can't allocate and sell infinite GPUs on demand to them anyway. The more likely scenario is local consumers bearing 100% of the additional cost with some extra scalping elsewhere as a side-effect.
The US isn't that massive of a PC gaming market anymore (probably ~10%) for anything to revolve around them, really.