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GTX 1070 - any takers?

Nvidia were intentionally vague about euro and UK pricing when these products were announced. What could have been a massive launch has become decidedly anticlimactic. I used to get really interested when new launches came around, but as the years pass I've found the increasingly brazen price gouging to be really disappointing.
 
Legend said:
Technically you are correct, I'm just speaking to how they've priced them in relation to what people were expecting given the naming 970/1070, 980/1080. This naming has inadvertently confused and consequently angered people more than I think alternate naming would have done. Not that people would have been happy at a £400+ GPU no matter what it was called, but the obvious tying in with the bargain that the 970 was has really not helped... not that it's going to struggle to sell regardless!
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Doesn't matter what they named them there is no way the 1070 is a £400+ GPU whatever you call it.

They'll probably still sell ok and supply may somewhat dictate prices but with enough supply and knocking £50 off the price they'd fly off the shelves far outstripping the overall profits they'd make at current prices.
 
Legend said:
The nomenclature is confusing, but obviously deliberate on Nvidia's part. They never intended the 1070 to be a 970 replacement... it has taken the price point that 980 was, and the 1080 has taken the 980Ti pricing slot. Quite obvious now that the 1060 will slot in where the 970 was, and 1080Ti will take a new slot around the £800 mark. It's a money making scam pure and simple, and a brazen one at that! They are simply laughing, when it would have been so simple for them to name the cards differently. The 1070 should have been called the 1080, and the 1080 the 1090 or something... but no, they WANTED us to see their marketing and brand power, giving us the finger in the process. :(
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Except it is a 970 replacement. And they're not fooling anybody here. Nvidia have not made any x90 cards, so I have no idea what you're talking about with that.

You're also ignoring that 1080 prices were entirely normal in the US, whereas it's just the EU/UK getting screwed. Meaning that we should really be looking at the retailers here.

Moreover, if this is all on Nvidia, they will falter badly if AMD can produce anything remotely competitive. Which I'm pretty sure they will. At least with the 1070. And it wont be too far away that they'll be able to blow away the 1080 likely at a much lower price point. So you can say Nvidia are laughing now, but it could easily be AMD laughing in 6-9 months when people flock in huge numbers to AMD for all their performance needs and Nvidia has done nothing but earned ill-will and made AMD look fantastic in comparison going forward from there.

If the UK/EU pricing is all on Nvidia, they've messed up badly. If it's just the retailers, then they're just doing what's best for themselves, as retailers do.

bfar said:
Nvidia were intentionally vague about euro and UK pricing when these products were announced.
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No they weren't. They didn't say anything about them at all, as they never do. Their announced prices are always US-based.
 
So now a 970 replacement has pushed past the £350 mark. Lovely deal for the Nvidia diehards...Enjoy ;)

Sadly enough fools with too much money. Out of stock even at that price.
 
Seanspeed said:
I wonder whether that has anything to do with the crazy prices.

The higher they price the 1070/1080, the less they need to discount the 980Ti(and also the 970 and 980). So if they've still got a lot of these sitting around in stock, they might be worried about losing too much money on them if they had to heavily decrease their prices nearly overnight.
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Exactly this! Retail channel stock is most likely why the prices are so high at launch. Supply is low they sell out regardless so they have no need to tweak pricing to a more sensible level yet ;)

Nvidia know exactly when their next batch of cards is due so when you see 970/980/980Ti prices being adjusted downwards its a headsup the new batch is about 2 weeks away ;)
 
Simon Belmont said:
What puts the icing on the cake is the 1070 doesn't have the vapor chamber like the 1080 does. lol Wow!!!
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i could not care less about vapor chambers on the 1070, if the cooling is to horrid i can always mount my mk26 on it. Now what matters to me personally is the price to performance ratio.. and i dont like that one bit with the current pricing.
 
fs123 said:
So now a 970 replacement has pushed past the £350 mark. Lovely deal for the Nvidia diehards...Enjoy ;)

Sadly enough fools with too much money. Out of stock even at that price.
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Not really, it's just fools with £400 to their name that don't mind parting with their entire net worth. The smart money don't go on these cards right now.

Absolutely nothing for some of us buying 4x 1080 FE for a quad SLI but why on Earth be that stupid?

I'll check back in a couple of months to see if there's some sanity in the prices then. Wonder when AMD comes to the party? Must check the Polaris release dates.
 
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