GPU Prices Changes are Coming...

Chip foundries are increasing prices. Potentially could add another 10-20% into pricing probably in December or shortly after.

Those affected would be pc gamers, console players, and gpu miners.
 
People aren’t very good at voting with their wallets. I can understand miners paying the ridiculous prices today because there’s a chance of the hardware paying for itself. I don’t understand paying ~$2000 dollars for a card just to see some pretty new effects though.
 
There will have to be some sort of price correction in the future, or the PC gaming market will change substantially. I refuse to believe a large enough majority of PC gamers would be willing to buy at current prices as the norm going forward. Either it will return to being a super niche industry, or something else will have to change. Maybe we'll see far less of ultra demanding AAA games and more low resource indie style games as its all most people will be able to afford to run.

One things for sure, I paid $700 for my 3080 and I expect to continue to pay around the same price max for this tier graphics card. If that becomes no longer possible then I will just not buy. They need my money more than I need a graphics card. As KAC would say, they can eat a dick.
 
Meteor_of_War said:
There will have to be some sort of price correction in the future, or the PC gaming market will change substantially. I refuse to believe a large enough majority of PC gamers would be willing to buy at current prices as the norm going forward. Either it will return to being a super niche industry, or something else will have to change. Maybe we'll see far less of ultra demanding AAA games and more low resource indie style games as its all most people will be able to afford to run.

One things for sure, I paid $700 for my 3080 and I expect to continue to pay around the same price max for this tier graphics card. If that becomes no longer possible then I will just not buy. They need my money more than I need a graphics card. As KAC would say, they can eat a dick.
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You covered it as far as concerns me. I’d love to put together a high end desktop right now, but I choose not to due to gifs prices and availability.

Some more great indies for the far less expensive gaming laptop I’m going to get would be great for me :)
 
Meteor_of_War said:
One things for sure, I paid $700 for my 3080 and I expect to continue to pay around the same price max for this tier graphics card. If that becomes no longer possible then I will just not buy. They need my money more than I need a graphics card. As KAC would say, they can eat a dick.
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the sad part is, that you are the minority, otherwise they couldn't get away with their current, beyond ridiculous, prices for their hardware.
 
Meteor_of_War said:
There will have to be some sort of price correction in the future, or the PC gaming market will change substantially. I refuse to believe a large enough majority of PC gamers would be willing to buy at current prices as the norm going forward. Either it will return to being a super niche industry, or something else will have to change. Maybe we'll see far less of ultra demanding AAA games and more low resource indie style games as its all most people will be able to afford to run.

One things for sure, I paid $700 for my 3080 and I expect to continue to pay around the same price max for this tier graphics card. If that becomes no longer possible then I will just not buy. They need my money more than I need a graphics card. As KAC would say, they can eat a dick.
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Silent-Runner said:
the sad part is, that you are the minority, otherwise they couldn't get away with their current, beyond ridiculous, prices for their hardware.
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I can assure you, the majority of gamers is NOT spending 3000 Euros for a GPU here in Italy


On a side note I'm having a blast playing Quake at 144fps on my crappy 1080GTX, so

fu*k unoptimized AAA titles,
fu*k the 3000 series,
fu*k the whole RTX hype.

Back to gaming.

Oh, and so just that noone is left behind fu*k 2020, 2021 AND 2022 preemptively.
 
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Meteor_of_War said:
One things for sure, I paid $700 for my 3080 and I expect to continue to pay around the same price max for this tier graphics card. If that becomes no longer possible then I will just not buy.
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Yeah, no way I'm going higher than what I paid for my 3080.
 
Lazy8s said:
I don’t understand paying ~$2000 dollars for a card just to see some pretty new effects though.
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Some people can and will. Some, will not.

Try to wrap your head around the amount of money spent on diamonds or wedding dresses. People most definitely drop a lot of coin for "pretty" things. One could argue $2000 on a GPU is better spent than on a wedding dress any day and yet they still sell a lot of stupid expensive wedding dresses and blinged out diamond rings to go with.

It's not just GPU prices affected here, even console players would be affected by these price hikes in the OP and the shortages in general. People can dig their heels in all they like whether it severely wounds the industry is up in the air at this point.
 
Man a set of golf clubs cost about 2-3 grand.
However, the only reason I have a 3090 is because the landed cost of the upgrade to me was $770 of which all the money has been recovered. :D.
 
Riptide said:
Some people can and will. Some, will not.

Try to wrap your head around the amount of money spent on diamonds or wedding dresses. People most definitely drop a lot of coin for "pretty" things. One could argue $2000 on a GPU is better spent than on a wedding dress any day and yet they still sell a lot of stupid expensive wedding dresses and blinged out diamond rings to go with.

It's not just GPU prices affected here, even console players would be affected by these price hikes in the OP and the shortages in general. People can dig their heels in all they like whether it severely wounds the industry is up in the air at this point.
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That’s all true Riptide, and that’s all good. I can only really address it from my perspective though. I have the cash to put together a top of the line gaming PC, but my buyers remorse thread over the cash spent would be looong :p

The wedding dress though….I’ve seen women melt down (I have 3 daughters lol) over a cheap wedding dress. So that’s kind of a mental health issue :D
 
Maybe you should just open your own board called 'Filthy rich gamers with 5 monitors, 12 GPU' s. And maids' ;)
 
The foundry prices are moot right now. A few percent increase in costs there is irrelevant when MSRPs are already inflated by 100%.

I also believe PC gaming will flat-out die if prices do not come back down to much lower levels. There aren't enough people who can buy $1500+ GPUs to support the gaming industry. Pointing out how some people blow money this way and that doesn't change the fact that there aren't enough of those people to keep PC gaming going.

We can coast along for a few years based on people having previous gen cards that still work, but eventually we get to the point where the old hardware starts breaking and getting retired.
 
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