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There's a looming GPU supply crisis, which means prices are likely to get a whole lot worse. And it's not just because of memory (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 40 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Posted to another thread, applies here:

The goal is to move gaming to “the cloud” as a part of their “You’ll own nothing and like it” philosophy…

Step one is to make home gaming prohibitively expensive…

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Honestly, I'm not willing to credit anyone involved with that level of coordination and foresight. Especially not when short term profit and raw greed are more than enough to explain current actions.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yep, the market is chocking full of old games and indie devs make new games that run on potatoes, games that are really fun to play. I don't care about the latest hardware anymore. This kind of "strategy" assumes everyone wants the latest tech and only AAA games.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    What's the rule? "Don't automatically attribute to malice what can be easily explained by stupidity"

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Yes! Hanlon's razor. Although corporations tend to throw in a little evil for fun, as well.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I'd be done with new games. Time to bust out the N64 and SNES, fire up some rom hacks on my everdrive.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    There are a lot of decomps being developed from the N64 and PS1 era. Meaning you can play (or replay) them natively on PC with quality life improvements such as 4K, 60fps, widescreen FOV hacks, texture enhancements etc.

    It's really a great time to rediscover some PC games (or decomps and ports of console games) from 15-25 years ago that you might have missed when they were new.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'd sooner abandon gaming completely and switch to card games.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Jokes on them. Not gonna play those games. Perfectly happy with the games that work on my steam deck.

    On a serious note, it's a pity that the games industry that already having a tough time going to take a hit from this probably

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    • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Man I felt stupid buying a 5090 at $2700. Little did I know how bad it was going to get.

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

    lol, that’s not MSRP

    but what a STEAL if that price was posted today

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I never said it was msrp. I even said I felt kind of stupid paying the mark up. It was shortly after they came out and microcenter had one over clocked Zotac card. So I said fuck. I've wanted a 90 series card since they came out just didn't realize that when I'd be able to afford it it would be the worst price / performance ever offered from Nvidia lol

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I wanted to buy a GPU in 2020 and was advised to wait. I regretted it. Got nothing.

    Two years ago I decided it was time. I was told I should wait again for the new models.

    This time I went my own way. Bought a RX6750 XT for 300 euros. Good call...

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Capitalism will never allow itself to be regulated, this outcome is inevitable. If you don't like this, you're recognizing the glaringly obvious problem with capitalism as a whole, it all goes to the top and only gets smaller.

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