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Life of a PC gamer (lemmy.world)
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[–] 133 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Because the fuckers realised they can just keep them priced like this and people will still buy them

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They literally don’t care if people buy them or not. Overwhelmingly profit is in the server and enterprise areas now.

    Some people will still buy at those high prices and they are more than happy to stick with that small slice.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Another reason to look forward to the AI bubble popping.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Exactly. Whatever they sell at those prices is good. They just don't care about people who cannot shell out thousands for a gpu.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The relationship between supply, demand, and price has been fundamentally damaged.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It always has been. It's just worse now. The haves have always had all the power in a "free market" system.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why doesn't a 4090 cost $1,000,000?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You don't get to be worth 5 trillion dollars by giving out discounts...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Quite the contrary! They effectively sell their cards at a ~20% discount to a bunch of AI companies by "investing" in the companies for a promise to use that money to buy their cards.

    It's as dumb as it sounds and textbook unsustainable economic bubble behavior, but NVidia don't care because more sales = more stonks = more money to "invest" = more sales = more stonks = more yachts for Jensen. So what if it makes 1929 look like a walk in the park, it's not their problem.

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