NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50-Series "Blackwell" gaming graphics cards are expected to see significant price adjustments this week. According to Chinese ChannelGate, add-in card (AIC) partners have confirmed that price hikes are scheduled due to the ongoing demand for these GPUs outstripping supply....
Did the cost of producing them go up $500?
They’re scalping their own cards. It’s naked price gouging, and they’re going to get away with it.
It’s market pricing. The mechanism works like an auction, so the price rises as long as someone is willing to pay more. But the costs of production may be going up for that model because the chips are being used for AI slop factories instead.
yes they are basically scalping their cards and gouging. but also yes, in a manner of speaking, cost to produce did increase as well. because otherwise, they would use their limited production capacity on even more profitable chips.
maybe we just gotta stop paying for crappy games and machines to run them, some of the best games I’ve played ran on a 486
Yeah, there’s an absurd amount of incredible retro games, many of them free or cheap af
I’m starving these bitches out until component prices drop. I’ve got enough games to last the rest of my life if needed.
Not to mention the absolute ton of indie games out there that are out there.
if idiots play along.