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Comment by omegalulw | Hacker News Reader

> They realized suckers will pay insane amounts for the cards, even disregarding prior crypto.

Press X to doubt. People are PISSED, and the 30 series is already excellent value. 4090 will sell but I have my doubts on the 4080 (esp 12 GB).

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I'm willing to bet a case of lager that 40xx will sell out like hot cakes when gamer teenage angst passes.

Gamer community is known for teenage rage outbursts which are of dubious practicality or reason.

Belittling the community, calling them teenagers, and telling them to "get over it" doesn't actually materialize $1,600 to be able to buy the card though. Especially right in the middle of a period of inflation and economic downturn. And then there's the competition Nvidia is in with themselves given then glut of used 3090 cards on the market, and the 3090 was only selling priced so high because of crypto mining in the first place, and that's gone now.

Who knows, maybe you're right or maybe Nvidia's in for a valley, or Nvidia will end up dropping their prices.

Yeah, I remember a similar fit thrown around the 20xx series release not that long ago. I had a 1080Ti at the time, so i didn't care to upgrade. Comes around the release time of 30xx, suddenly almost everyone i knew and everyone on reddit was upgrading from their 20xx series cards (or complaining how overpriced 30xx series was and how they weren't going to upgrade to it from 20xx).

People say they're pissed, but open their wallets all the same. I wouldn't correlate internet outrage to anything real. Same as every time people say they're going to boycott anything online.

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