Out of the loop, what's the deal with CPUs?

[MooMoo444]

I'm a little behind with CPU releases. Not sure where the performance currently lies.

I have a 4770k running at a reasonably mild OC of 4.2, and it serves me well, does everything I need to. Curiousity got the better of me though and I was pricing up a new Skylake PC (which seems to be ridiculously expensive I might add), with no intention to buy.

However, I also noticed on the MM that 3770k-ish and 4770k-ish CPUs seem to be holding their value exceptionally well, still commanding upwards of £200 in some scenarios, which is pretty spectacular for CPU's that are 3 or more years old now.

Is Skylake a flop or what? Are intel holding back the performance and sandbagging?

 

[MooMoo444]

Oh I wasn't planning an upgrade, like I said in OP, was just curious really since the market doesn't seem to have left Haswell behind like I was expecting it to.