Caporegime
The big problem is when that gets added onto cheaper motherboards too. The A620 is starting at the same price as B550 motherboards. You basically lose overclocking, gain no new PCI-E speed,etc. Looking at what I paid for my AM4 motherboard, the B650E equivalent is over twice what I paid(£165 more) and £100+ more than the B550 motherboards at the time. But Intel seems less affected than AMD. Then you have essentially 50 series cards from Nvidia being bumped upto 60 series tiers, etc. Almost the entirety of my mates(we tend to be more normal mainstream tier buyers), have looked at the pricing and decided not to bother. No wonder cpu and gpu sales are not great.
Yet if you look at prebuilt systems, you can still buy them for cheaper than buying the parts from a store. Lots of other electronics are getting cheaper or have not increased anywhere as much. It seems these companies are taking the mickey with gamers and retailers. These companies still think they can charge pandemic/mining pricing and are in denial the gravy train is over. People could spend more at the time as they were stuck at home. Now people are going back to doing other things with their disposable income.
Interest rates are at their highest for a decade and the global money printer is slowly being turned off, so a lot of people who use credit to buy things will be cutting back too. We all know how much consumer spending in the west is driven by cheap credit. Maybe they need to cut their coat according to their cloth. Instead they already ordered the leather jacket, without even knowing if they can afford the leather,but speculate they could.
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Just like they prescalped the RX78...sorry RX7900XT at $900!