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At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?

this has been a very unique development, and will serve as aninsightful case study.. nobody had predicted that suppliers will spread out US tariffs to other regions in order to soften the blow to US consumers, everyone was of the opinion that US prices will increase commensurate with US tariffs and will not "directly" impact non-US consumers. i believe even nintendo decided to absorb US tariffs and pass on the cost to other countries
 
brostradamus said:
this has been a very unique development, and will serve as aninsightful case study.. nobody had predicted that suppliers will spread out US tariffs to other regions in order to soften the blow to US consumers, everyone was of the opinion that US prices will increase commensurate with US tariffs and will not "directly" impact non-US consumers. i believe even nintendo decided to absorb US tariffs and pass on the cost to other countries
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Yeah, not unsurprised by it all. Very glad now I made a full system build in Feb as I wouldn't want to try spending that again in 6 months once it shakes out.
 
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So random question are prices on 50 series gpus really going to rise in price again soon? I mean I was going to wait a month(when I have enough money to buy graphics card plus new pc). I'm guessing it may be better to just buy a 5080 right now, if I want it at the cheapest?
 
Calabi said:
So random question are prices on 50 series gpus really going to rise in price again soon? I mean I was going to wait a month(when I have enough money to buy graphics card plus new pc). I'm guessing it may be better to just buy a 5080 right now, if I want it at the cheapest?
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Going to be a super refresh, hold.
 
brostradamus said:
this has been a very unique development, and will serve as aninsightful case study.. nobody had predicted that suppliers will spread out US tariffs to other regions in order to soften the blow to US consumers, everyone was of the opinion that US prices will increase commensurate with US tariffs and will not "directly" impact non-US consumers. i believe even nintendo decided to absorb US tariffs and pass on the cost to other countries
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It was baffling that there were people who said this wouldn't happen.
For these companies, every other market in the world (aside from Japan for Nintendo) will always be savaged to protect the US one.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
It was baffling that there were people who said this wouldn't happen.
For these companies, every other market in the world (aside from Japan for Nintendo) will always be savaged to protect the US one.
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Yep, got into this very debate on this forum about Switch 2. Particularly when there are so many ways to subsidise; increase subscriptions, increase the price of physical media licensing/manufacturing to accelerate the push toward digital, increase price on accessories etc. It doesn't have to just be the basic increase the price of the console in other regions.

That said I don't think Nintendo is currently subsidising the North American region for launch. I think it has been caught off-guard, already had plans in place and is managing the best it can with launching a new, mass market product at the worst possible time. However if US tariffs remain then I do think the price of the Switch 2, or ecosystem will be going up in price at some point. However I trust Nintendo more than Sony and Microsoft in that regards.

The caveat is that I think the increase in the maximum cost of games on Switch 2 is more a reaction and accommodation of third-party publishers; where Switch 2 will have very strong support. So for example; Borderlands 4 can sell for '£120 Premium edition', or something across Steam, Xbox Live, PSN and the Nintendo eShop/cartridge/game-card. Which is always interesting when people talk about cheaper games on PC, when ironically so many games now release across multiple platforms at the same price and time. It sorts or destroys that line of argument in my humble opinion. Gaming is going up in price no matter what and where you are. And it sucks.
 
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Trox said:
By the time you get one the 60 series will be 9 months at the back of those…
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gpuerrilla said:
Also going to be a 60 series, hold. I doubt they will be cheaper...
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It only makes sense to get the super/ti if you stick to buying them cycles or you skipped >gen. Not sure how this recent 10% hike will materialise just another body blow to consumers.
 
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ImMrChris said:
Zotac 5090 below £2k now...

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Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 Solid 32GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Order Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 Solid 32GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card now online and benefit from fast delivery.
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we are getting there finally! still silly money mind but at least it starts with a 1 now :cry:
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Out of stock, of course. They can price it peanuts; it doesn't matter. Some unscrupulous places do use this as a strategy to drive traffic to their websites :rolleyes:

@Gibbo, my friend, when is the new stock of Zotac RTX 5090 Solid @ £1999 going to be back in? ;)
 
brostradamus said:
this has been a very unique development, and will serve as aninsightful case study.. nobody had predicted that suppliers will spread out US tariffs to other regions in order to soften the blow to US consumers, everyone was of the opinion that US prices will increase commensurate with US tariffs and will not "directly" impact non-US consumers. i believe even nintendo decided to absorb US tariffs and pass on the cost to other countries
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Unfortunately this really isn’t unique and if you read up how tariffs have a worldwide impact, you will see this is actually a common symptom of tariff wars.

I predicted exactly this behaviour many months ago when some deluded posters thought increased tariffs on GPUs in the US would mean better and cheaper supply to the UK.

Manufacturers (even for GPU) cannot simply flood another market or multiple other markets with hundreds of thousands or even millions of unsold GPUs that US buyers can’t afford. That drives down demand and potentially a lot of unsold inventory even at MSRP.

NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

I know you joke but could you imagine if nvidia started selling monitors with technology (similar to a G-Sync chip) that reduced latency to whatever the native latency would be when using MFG. I’d actually be impressed at them selling a solution to a problem they created - those monitors would...
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Out of stock, of course. They can price it peanuts; it doesn't matter. Some unscrupulous places do use this as a strategy to drive traffic to their websites :rolleyes:

@Gibbo, my friend, when is the new stock of Zotac RTX 5090 Solid @ £1999 going to be back in? ;)
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OcUK does not do such practices !

These were in stock and sold out, we had 100 at £1999 and there is 100 more due this so order at £1999 and you should have it within a matter of days. :)
 
I think the entire market has now descended in to total BS. I don't trust anything any of the chip manufacturers say, and have zero confidence that anything they produce is value or better than the previous generation.
It's amazing, really. In the space of two years I have gone from habitually upgrading every generation to, well, who knows when I will upgrade next? The manipulative lies dealt out by NVIDIA are the main reason, the cost is the icing and the cherry on the top.
I can't help but wonder where this is all going. Surely NVIDIA can not keep up making poorer and poorer value cards and yet asking more and more money? I dunno. Maybe the mass of buyers out there are blind to how much they are being ripped off.
 
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till the time nvidia doesnt find a substitue for tsmc, this is going to be the expected behavior.. and the 60 series will be an equally atrocious launch as theres been no formal communication from nvidia regarding their plans to address tsmc dependencies
 
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