It's more surprising given that they had two playtests where people could try the game, and the performance complains were already raised then.

But well, some are too anxious to play a game to wait even a couple of days to see what people say about it before jumping right into it.

I had the hope that the comparisons with the 7900GRE were due to not only being a card that both 9070 would beat, unlike the XT and XTX models, but also because AMD would launch the new cards around that price, which was $549. But I had very little hope about it.

In the end, I was kind of right, but as I said, the $50 gap between both cards is too small to make sense and will hurt the 9070 during the reviews and also in sales. Which sucks but, given that both cards us the exact same parts, but one chip being a cut down version, I guess AMD will make a bit more money from the 9070XT and it0s going to prioritize that.

I have nop doubts that some AIB will try to push things to the limit, just like they're doing with the 5000 series. After all, if they can get away with it on Nvidia cards, they can do the same with the AMD ones, right? Plus AMD cards sell less and the more they can charge for them, the more they'll make to get back the marketing and designing costs.

At the same time, AMD is more generous with the profit margins AIBs have than Nvidia (they have no other option with their sales being far less than team green), so the partners aren't is such need to inflate prices.

Plus, there's the supply issue which, if AMD has managed to build enough stock, will face less pressure and will keep those price gouging tactics more in check, as there'll always be a cheaper card from another brand, And while a small price increase may not be a problem for die-hards of certain brands, if that difference starts to grow, so will the number loyal customers that will buy your overpriced product. It's the whole "the market regulates itself" idea that sometimes work but, admittedly, others don't.

We'll see how it goes.

Can we please stop putting cable sockets anywhere near the hotspots, that'd be grand. 

The general idea is to put them further away from the mass of heated steel/copper. 

People seem to have this weird fantasy fever dream that Capcom's engine is magically going to advance lightyears into the future where it will magically run open world games.

Yeah I'm sitting here since the engine dropped with REmake 2 and that still has yet to happen, and DD2 still hasn't been vastly improved in it's perf woes either. I'm fully expecting the same with MHW, which is why I've not only avoided DD2, but will also avoid MHW as well. There's no point in buying a game that's just going to suffer from engine teething issues for years on end. 

Also I've yet to see a large publisher refine an engine, that then allows them to go back to an older game and go "hey customers who bought this game years ago, have this free performance boost!". I've only ever seen indie devs do this with unity updates, like with Subnautica, but I've never seen this happen with larger games like DD2/Battlefield franchise. Cyberpunk, etc.

Also MHW looks to be another case where you're still going to end up relying on AI tomfoolery, instead or raster/brute forcing.