Caporegime
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I will admit, I did (until recently) think of you as one of the red team die-hards.
I see on Twitter/X there are posts saying that AMD cards will be live for preorder in March. If there's already stock at retailers why will it be preorders?
I will admit that I'm getting increasingly unhyped for both Nvidia and AMD launches. 12GB should probably be reserved for the lowest tier of cards at this point, I'm not even thrilled by the prospect of 16GB, which seems to be all that's on offer outside of the 5090.
I tend to prefer value for money myself. So gravitated towards AMD/ATI over Nvidia/Intel. Although I did get in an argument with people when AMD jacked up the prices of Zen3 - I think I was implied to be an Intel fan!
Personally,all these companies seem to be trying to ape each other,on how much they can rip-off the customer. It's got worse and worse since 2020. It's why I made sure that every part I bought during the Pandemic was RRP and under. If not I did without - people paying all these scalpers prices was only going to tell these companies they needed to charge more.
Agreed, for me the 5080 is a **** take with 16gb, 5070 is a **** take with 12gb. 5070ti is a **** take on price. 9070xt seems like a nice middle ground if priced right, if they priced too high though I dunno what ill do.
I am more concerned about the Trump tariffs and whether both these companies will use that as an excuse to jack up prices. Despite all the flowery language none of them have any real respect for most gamers IMHO.
That is why I am concerned with the "delays" from both companies. Just blame Trump. Profit.
You see it with AAA game releases too. They seem to think gamers are whales who will pay any price. Unfortunately I think enough are there for them to get away with it!
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