Why Nvidia did Not get in Mind how sad people are now who bought the 2080ti for 2000$

[VeganJoy]

13 minutes ago, Delicieuxz said:

Those percentages don't include the 1650 and 1660 cards. 9.72% respondents to the Steam hardware survey have GTX 16XX series GPUs.

 

So, just about as many people bought those as bought 2000 series cards.

still not super high but not terrible. 2070 supers, 2080 supers, and 2080 tis seemed to be completely out of stock for the past few months which probably didnt help sales

[Zberg]

A few things:

 

Bleeding edge / early adopter tax is real, people know that when they sign up.

 

If you wanted the best there was, and to play at pretty good framerates at 4k, it was really the only option.

 

If you bought it around launch, you got 2 years of having the best thing there was in existence for gaming.

 

It wasn't 2000$.  Maybe someone payed that at sometime (recently when it went out of stock), but the vast majority were able to be bought for far less.  Still expensive.  I have 2 of upper-tier versions (ROG strix OC and EVGA XC ultra) and didnt pay more than 1250 for either of them (yes this is a lot of money).  I passed up on a couple new EVGA blacks and MSI ventus when they were selling for 999 in favor of a better card with better OC.

 

 

Really the people who would or should be most mad would be someone who bought a 2080ti recently, but honestly with how much news and buzz is out there about the 3000 series and everyone telling them not to upgrade, it's their fault if they didnt listen.  

 

These things happen all the time with tech.  A few late TR 2950x and 2990WX build videos come to mind as tragic when third gen threadripper (and baby threadripper 3950x) launched absolutely pooping all over 2nd gen at a significantly better value.

 

[Sir Beregond]

18 minutes ago, VeganJoy said:

still not super high but not terrible. 2070 supers, 2080 supers, and 2080 tis seemed to be completely out of stock for the past few months which probably didnt help sales

I believe Nvidia discontinued production of those cards a while back in preparation for Ampere and to clear stock.