"While the price of the ASUS GTX 1080 Strix may now be the same at its launch day pricing, remember that Nvidia reduced its MSRP by $100 in March 2017, which means that pricing remains above its modern MSRP. "
Yeah, it got a price reduction before the release of the GTX 1080 Ti.
I won't consider it being normal until I can find 580 8GB and 1060 6GB cards for under $300. But still a decrease is a decrease. It's kinda funny though. I just helped 2 people build new PCs in the last 2 months... I'm sure they won't be pleased
There's inventory at Newegg and Amazon at least here in the US. 1080's are near $600 for the first time in several months.
Yes Volta is coming out soon but it'll be probably 6 more months before the mainstream cards get replaced. The first Volta cars will likely be a 1080 replacement like they usually do and it'll be a while before you can get a Volta equivalent of the 1060 or 1070.
A few drops here and there are but nothing serious, more like emptying the warehouses. Even on the official site the stock is 0 and the preorder button is gone (up to yesterday anyway). My country, basically 0 inventory, no arrival dates known. They're EOL, even according to the vendors.
Just out of curiosity I checked online vendors here; still no stock (10+ days = no idea here) and still priced at 1000 euro and upwards. Makes sense, we're too small a land to notice immediate effects.