The problem is though people that buy in to this kind of luxury market will buy the 3080 and 3080ti in a years time so that won't matter to them? It's just fuelled by people wanting the new technology and I understand I do but you are only feeding this cycle of extortion. I think it's sad that people are getting priced out of the market now even in the 2070 tier. it's been bad enough with the mining craze prices. I am now one of them and I didn't buy at the last launch of the 1080 at those prices either. While I could buy it I would only end up with buyers remorse because I could do a whole lot more with that money if spent wisely.
If we could get people all to not buy we'd all actually end up with the card at a reasonable price and everyone could benefit but I don't envisage people actually thinking about that or caring enough to make that choice.
The problem is that is what it would take to put a stop to this practice people need to vote with their wallets only then is it going to stop.
Ultimately it'll come down enough people buying them to justify the cost. We could boycott but if NV have poured loads of £ into R&D then we could actually do more damage than good. Gaming GPU's will received less R&D.
I still don't quite understand why people get so upset with something that is really a luxury item. The sheer number of posts/threads in the last 24 hours tells us why NV can push the pricing. We all want them, pure and simple. Do we want them enough to pay the price? That's yet to be seen
We are however rather lucky in that if we own a Pascal based card and not gaming a 4k, we're going to have good enough hardware for a while yet. I think a good strategy for many is to sit this gen out and by next gen the new features will be better utilised and no doubt better implemented in hardware too. Both gaming GPU's and also CPU's have a very good lifespan these days. Pascal is old tat, but still good old tat
