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I know it was incredibly difficult to get my 3080 FE with many failed attempts and the copious use of Discord stock watchers. I was extremely lucky, I thought I'd missed out when I tried to add it to cart and it failed, but it came back up for sale after furious refreshing of the page (a bot was probably refused or someone cancelled). I only had tens of seconds to add it to cart and check out at most.As I added, you have to remember enthusiast forums like these can give a false impressions that everyone got one, but you have to remember many enthusiasts will go out of thier way to do considerably more to get one than the average gamer, and there are plenty of people here who didn't get one either; despite wanting them. Yes, there was more demand than previously due to COVID etc, but the amount of people who got one compared to the number of gamers who would have bought had the normal range of models been available...lets just say it'd have been considerably higher. I watched many of the FE drops, and saw how quickly they sold out. If you think most people got one of those; especially outside of the biggest enthusiasts... I suspect in the wider market, there are just as many pre-built sourced Ampere cards out there, as FE, likely many more.
The poll you refer to here was also only 200 people roughly, and reference design (which would include many prebuilts) also fell under the FE category. If you don't think there are more than 200 people here who'd normally have bought one, you've not seen previous GPU launches or paid much attention to numbers
Needless to say, I think if the wider gamer population who'd traditionally upgrade with a new gen was somehow surveyed in entirety; the larger pool would be 'not able to attain one'/'not able to attain one at reasonable price'!, 3080's have been especially bad.
This in itself, between pricing and availability, and the spec bump on the new consoles, has definately pushed people that way, even if they were also short on numbers and not super easy to get; they were still easier to get than a 3080. A 3080 retailing for the best part of a year for £1500+, or an OLED, Console AND Sound system for not much more... it's not hard to see why people would choose it!
Can totally absorb this sentiment. My original gaming buddy from the wow days been off PC gaming for about 5 years now, he's PS die hard now, his kids have all grown up - living the console dream!
Indeed, I am playing the Final Fantasy VII Remake on PC now and I'm very impressed. It's a pity it's so difficult to buy a console too, particularly the digital edition of the PS5
. I'm not sure I want it enough to waste my time on Discord again as I did to get a 3080 FE, it was just too much effort and required a lot of luck (as well as being available just at the right time).
Indeed, I am playing the Final Fantasy VII Remake on PC now and I'm very impressed. It's a pity it's so difficult to buy a console too, particularly the digital edition of the PS5
You could try Geforce NOW cloud gaming, Elite Dangerous is available on the service. It's free to try, but you get lower end machines and may have to wait; it's a good way to test it out though.
Elite runs ok on my current rig, as long as you ignore Odyssey,
Thing is you can’t get high FPS on consoles at 4k. They’ve only just released patches for assassins creed to get it to 60fps lmao.
If I remember correctly, they were struggling to get AC running at high FPS on PC either. Have they fixed the HDR yet?
Not sure I haven’t played it on the PC let alone at 4k. If that’s the case then the Devs have poorly implemented it.
Its not new that certain DEVs optimise there games for Nvidia or Amd cards they were doing this 10 years ago. As for running 4k on consoles, the game DEVs will often run single player at 4k 30 FPS and run say like muti player at 1440p 60 FPS.
