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Definitely not a paper launch, the QTY was there, unfortunately so was the demand. Every retailer that I could see, had stock and likely lots of it, it just all sold out. Would have been much worse if they had launched in January/February as may have been planned.

But what is the cause for such crazy demand though?

I don't understand it. I have understood previous crazy sell out launches...but this one? Very odd.

They arent money printers like the 3xxx series. They arent offering big performance gains like the 4xxx series.

Its just a kind of a reasonably priced mid range card (at rrp), with similar performance to things that were £100-£200 more expensive over a year ago.

The hype is bizarre. truly bizarre.
 
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RX9070 non-XT cards are now on other sites at £600 to £700. What a fantastic deal!

Can get negative price/performance improvements over an RX7800XT which was only £400ish late last year.

AMD delayed months to end up with having another scam RRP launch to buy good reviews.

I hope the true reviewers update their reviews to the actual street prices, and give them the same treatment given to Nvidia,about their fake RRPs.
 
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9070 not selling out anymore, even at £599 (dual fan, triple fan is £629 not sold out). People seeing sense.
 
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But what is the cause for such crazy demand though?

I don't understand it. I have understood previous crazy sell out launches...but this one? Very odd.

They arent money printers like the 3xxx series. They arent offering big performance gains like the 4xxx series.

Its just a kind of reasonably priced mid range card (at rrp), with similar performance to things that were £100-£200 more expensive over a year ago.

The hype is bizarre. truly bizarre.
It just shows the state of the market. An average card can generate so much noise - why? Because there is at least a glimmer of normality to the cards pricing (still think it needs to be better, personally, but it's a step).
 
But what is the cause for such crazy demand though.

I don't understand it.

They arent money printers like the 3xxx series. They arent offering big performance gains like the 4xxx series.

Its just a kind of reasonably priced mid range card (at rrp), with similar performance to things that were £100-£200 more expensive over a year ago.

The hype is bizarre. truly bizarre.


Because the scalping mentality over the last few years has become more and more prevelant. Almost anything with low stock numbers people will try to scalp.
 
Because the scalping mentality over the last few years has become more and more prevelant. Almost anything with low stock numbers people will try to scalp.

Maybe. But then what is wrong with customers that are willing to pay the same (if not more!) for the same performance as last gen? Why would anyone do that?
 
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