Limiting supply has the tendency to increase the price. There’s no incentive to significantly increase supply when they can milk it for all its worth and create increases in price between generations faster than inflation. Just look at the price increases after covid. Prices have come down slightly but there has been a permanent upward shift in GPU prices.
It’s not really an apples-to-apples comparison. Most of the things people continue buying at prices inflated by covid issues and corporate greed are things they need, like food. Graphics cards are more of a luxury.
If GPU prices stay high, I simply won’t buy them. Even if I were to finally relent when my current one eventually dies, I would be buying them far less often than I otherwise would, meaning less profit for the sellers in the long term.
Limiting supply has the tendency to increase the price. There’s no incentive to significantly increase supply when they can milk it for all its worth and create increases in price between generations faster than inflation. Just look at the price increases after covid. Prices have come down slightly but there has been a permanent upward shift in GPU prices.
It’s not really an apples-to-apples comparison. Most of the things people continue buying at prices inflated by covid issues and corporate greed are things they need, like food. Graphics cards are more of a luxury.
If GPU prices stay high, I simply won’t buy them. Even if I were to finally relent when my current one eventually dies, I would be buying them far less often than I otherwise would, meaning less profit for the sellers in the long term.