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Originally Posted by Daiyus
Thing is, even if there is oversupply I don't feel that the costs to the consumer will drop accordingly. Maybe a little bit, sure, but ultimately the market has proven that they're willing to pay current prices, so I can't imagine them ever dropping to where they should be ever again.
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Only a small portion of the market has really proven they're willing to pay current prices tbf, there are almost twice as many GTX 1060's users on the Steam hardware survey as there are of all current gen GPU users combined, a good portion of the PC gaming market are still unwilling or unable to pay more than ~£180/$200 for a GPU and nothing seems to indicate that has changed, some users may switch to console gaming in the mean time but for many due to their existing game library, friends platforms, setup, other requirements, ect will stick with their PC until something is available for them.
Luckily it seems Intel will be focussing almost entirely on what will then likely be the low-mid end space with their first gen cards. For AMD & NVidia, while supply is low and shipping is constrained they are best off using that supply on the highest profit products available because they can only sell so many of them, while there's still untapped income in the high end market that's the most profitable place for them to put their limited manufacturing resources, but once capacity increases, the increased earning potential of cheaper, higher volume cards will still be there too and they'll have no reason to ignore that extra potential profit.
That's before getting into secondary considerations like creating brand loyalty with new customers, or getting more of the userbase using their latest features so developers take better advantage of them, providing a boost to the whole generation of cards.
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