arandomguy
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I'm going to bring up another issue to consider with prices with respect to what happens in the future. Online enthusiast discussion is primarily done by people who are DIY PC builders who buy graphics cards as stand alone products from retail and are likely to view everything through that lens. This customer base however doesn't actually represent all PC gamers and GPU purchases for that purpose even though the online discussion would make it seem like it accounts for the the vast majority of purchases.
The price markup and availability situation for PC gamers who purchase prebuilt desktops, laptops, complete system integrator builds (retail shops give stock priority to people purchasing entire builds through their store), and to some extent "bundles" is nowhere near the situation as those looking to buy stand alone GPUs off retail were experiencing throughout 2021.
This means looking at the markup (or scalped price) and availability situation purely from the stand point of someone looking to buy a GPU in isolation is not fully reflecting what the broader market of PC gaming market is actually experiencing. The DIY crowd might have been balking at the price for what you get (along with "quality" issues relative to what they are used to, configurations they find poor, etc.) in looking at those options as alternatives but it's what was the norm (well to some extent) for those customers.
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They've been making noise about that for about a year now and deployment was pushed back yet again (I believe they now claim June 2022). Who knows if it'll get pushed back yet again as we get closer to that date. And who knows whether another coin will take off once it does.
