> 8GB cards are about $60 (10-12%) cheaper
nVidia says the launch prices for them are $400 and $500, respectively.
> seems like a good, rather than a bad, thing to me
The bad thing is the most affordable current generation card capable of playing modern videogames in decent quality now costs $500. That’s too expensive for most consumers I’m afraid.
Steam hardware survey says 7 out of 10 most popular cards are nVidia [234]060 which were sold for around $300. Despite most of them also have 8GB VRAM, when consumers bought these cards a few years ago, 8 GB was good enough for videogames released at that time.