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These days I've lost interest. My point was that availability affected what I ultimately spent (and did not spend) my money on.
by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
These days I've lost interest. My point was that availability affected what I ultimately spent (and did not spend) my money on.
- babypuncher 4y agoYou couldn't have been interested for that long. Crypto mining took a big hit in 2018. The market was flooded with used GTX 10-series GPUs. When Nvidia's RTX cards launched in August, they were somewhat difficult to find for a couple of months but by the start of 2019 they were actually struggling to move inventory because used mining GPUs were still flooding the market for so little money. GPUs were not hard to buy again until the pandemic started and demand skyrocketed during lockdowns.
- tomxor 4y agoHalf a decade is a long wait for entertainment, people will find other interests to replace them, like bass guitar - at which point there is less mind-space available for interactive entertainment. It's taken time for people to grow space for video games in their lives over ~40 years, the opposite can happen too , people had fun before video games.
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- babypuncher 4y agoThe wait wasn't half a decade. There was like a 6-month period where GTX 10-series cards were hard to get, and there were nearly two years where GPUs were plentiful before the chip shortages. Basically I'm questioning the commenter's claim that they kept trying to get their hands on a 10-series, then 20-series, then 30-series card before giving up. They must not have tried at all in 2019.
- bowsamic 4y agoThey were talking about inflated price, not lack of availability
- tomxor 4y agoYes, which for most people == lack of availability.
- babypuncher 4y agoThe prices weren't inflated in 2019 though.