Because game development has worsened, optimization is seen as a waste of investor money, so unoptimized games release that are built with insane graphics on test boxes with massive headroom.

When released, consumer grade equipment can barely handle it. So, the 5090, being the top tier card, becomes the only option to some people who want to enjoy the best fidelity in their games, like 60fps on their 4k monitors. Could it be excessive? Of course. But if a game was actually optimized as well, 60fps on 4k should be achievable by the 70 lines, not just the 90

5090 is a consumer GPU. Feels different.

All GPUs are luxury items

What you run in a desktop that needs 128gb ram before the bus width isn't good no more. Server things I can see somewhat. But a desktop.

and for the 5090s another one.

Yea have you checked the prices in the last week or 2? For what I'm reading as at least 3 5090s, you could easily buy a new compact car. You'd be lucky to get one under 10k new now, used can't be much cheaper.

I put a PC together in June-July 2024. The RAM I got (okay, pretty exotic, 2x48GB DDR5-6600 cl32) went 6x the price. Got the kit for £329, current price, IF you can find it, £1899. My 4090 FE would go for 2x the price I got it for.

I won‘t hold my breath. Because even if prices are coming down in 2028 they will still be much higher than now. Because they will just keep climbing until then.

I think we‘ll have to endure until the early 2030s to see if owning hardware will be realistic in the long run or if mega corporations and the mass surveillance state won and we‘re essentially forced to move to the cloud.

I doubt they will be resold if they are physically modified