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The gaming market won't evaporate. If the market can't bear the new prices, Nvidia and AMD will just lower the prices. A real example of price gouging would be

The gaming market won't evaporate. If the market can't bear the new prices, Nvidia and AMD will just lower the prices. A real example of price gouging would be a store charging a hundred dollars for bottled water after a hurricane, because people are desperate for it and can't get it elsewhere. The situation in the gaming market is quite different. Gaming PCs in general, and high-end GPUs in particular, are luxury items, not necessities. There are no longer any meaningful GPU shortages, and there is an enormous secondary market that people can use if they don't want to pay the new prices. Plus, these cards are the GPU equivalent of supercars -- looking at the Steam hardware survey, the number one GPU is the affordable RTX 1650, which only recently supplanted the 1060. Is Ferrari price-gouging because their cars cost more than Toyotas?

Eduard 4y ago
> ... the number one GPU is the affordable RTX 1650,... I guess you mean GTX 1650. "Affordable" is a relative and vague term; 200 EUR in my area for my target interest HDMI2 and DisplayPort (UHD 60fps HDR for video watching and desktop work). I'm waiting for a price around 100 EUR.
Aerroon 4y ago
But the "new version" of the GTX 1060 is a lot more expensive. That's why it's the GTX 1060 that remained so popular and not the RTX 2060 or 3060. The 1060 came out almost 7 years ago. (And the 1650 is even lower performance!) Now you hear that GPU sales are hitting lows they haven't been at for a while. The fear is that making a PC game would be targeting an old market, meanwhile consoles are affordable. But if fewer games are made for PCs then there's less reason for people to get gaming PCs too.
onli 4y ago
Side note to that: The GTX 1650 is actually weaker than the GTX 1060 (benchmarks: https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/gpu/compare?ids[]=GeForce+GTX+1650+(4GB)&ids[]=GeForce+GTX+1060+(6GB) https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/gpu/compare?ids[... ). That it was able to overtake the 1060 is actually a really bad sign for the health of the market. It's also not really affordable, in that it is completely overpriced for the performance it offers.

Eduard 4y ago

> ... the number one GPU is the affordable RTX 1650,... I guess you mean GTX 1650. "Affordable" is a relative and vague term; 200 EUR in my area for my target interest HDMI2 and DisplayPort (UHD 60fps HDR for video watching and desktop work). I'm waiting for a price around 100 EUR.

Aerroon 4y ago

But the "new version" of the GTX 1060 is a lot more expensive. That's why it's the GTX 1060 that remained so popular and not the RTX 2060 or 3060. The 1060 came out almost 7 years ago. (And the 1650 is even lower performance!) Now you hear that GPU sales are hitting lows they haven't been at for a while. The fear is that making a PC game would be targeting an old market, meanwhile consoles are affordable. But if fewer games are made for PCs then there's less reason for people to get gaming PCs too.

onli 4y ago

Side note to that: The GTX 1650 is actually weaker than the GTX 1060 (benchmarks: https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/gpu/compare?ids[]=GeForce+GTX+1650+(4GB)&ids[]=GeForce+GTX+1060+(6GB) https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/gpu/compare?ids[... ). That it was able to overtake the 1060 is actually a really bad sign for the health of the market. It's also not really affordable, in that it is completely overpriced for the performance it offers.