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Read through what you've written and see how much you've made up. I'll get you started; nobody said that these "fake people" work in tech or that the game developer was even a friend of mine nevermind a good friend etc.
Yeah, I've been at this a long time. Unfortunately my "backlog" throughout the year is normally zero. Most "retro" game fun I've had in the last few years has been with a hacked PS Vita.
Hmm.. Spend upwards of £2k on a graphics card that only makes sense "in a couple of years" from now at a lowly 1440p.
Hmm.. Spend upwards of £2k on a graphics card that only makes sense "in a couple of years" from now at a lowly 1440p.
My big concern for the 4090 is it will be trounced by 5090 (and AMDs new gen.) if they go MCM on the GPU dies. And I think they will. Mind you, they will cost as much as a house by then, so it's all moot.
I do wonder what game genres you play that you feel you have played all that the the PC's full back catalogue has to offer, especially those with a heavy mod scene, because you objectively have an absolute potato PC with a 1GB VRAM GPU from 2011 that is not going to handle anything but very basic titles. But anyway I think it's clear what your viewpoint is so lets agree to disagree.I've been PC gaming since the late 80s, so I know the score too.
You posted your reasoning above:
"It has such a rich and amazing back catalogue of titles that can be had for VERY cheap prices (steam key sites) that thanks to the latest hardware we can bump up to max detail settings at high frames. When you factor in modding there is im simply no replacement for the PC. It is unique."
The problem is, you could do all that 4-5 years ago - and we all did. So no reason to do it all again now for no reason.
I guess we'll just agree to differ. But the lack of really decent cutting edge titles and the insane price of graphics cards has turned me off PC gaming heavily in the last year or so - and as a hardcore PC gamer, I never thought I'd reach a stage where I'd ever be saying that.
Peace.
The last few times I checked online in the US, there was at least one 4090 available to add to cart at their (AIB) MSRP. (Two today)
In a normal market the cards are usually out of stock till around 4-6 weeks after launch.
I think it depends how many people cave and pay the prices. From what Jensen said to investors about layering the new cards on top it seemed to be a short term solution to sell off the ampere stock but then if enough people go out and buy the cards at these silly prices then he will just keep prices high. This is why its important not to buy at the minute until Nvidia correct the pricing as not only will you be getting ripped off now but every time you buy a GPU going forward.
The ability to print money made demand virtually limitless. (-and made the market decidedly abnormal)
That, but also keep in mind they are double overpriced products, prescalped by Nvidia. If 4080 would have come as 3080 was to the 3090 (both in performance and price), you wouldn't have the same availability. Scalper would also run wild.
May as well go for a 4090 at that price.
Yes there's seems to be a balance.. i don't want to overpay but at the same time felt that the 3080 was underpriced. I was lucky to get a founders edition for MSRP during the launch month but the constant tension wasn't worth it. Also i was waiting for AMD to show their hand during the ampere launch otherwise i would have probably bought one of those overpriced aib cards.
I've got the itch but having got a 3080 FE for £650 in Dec 20 there's no way I'm caving, it's just too big a mental jump to go to £1200+. Had a 4080 been circa £650 + 2 years worth of inflation there would be one in my PC now, availability permitting.
I'm the same.
Yeah i'd probably be going down the AM5 route now instead, if motherboards weren't a pisstake.
Again I got a monitor less than a year ago so don't want to be changing that either
