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The other 40% are waiting for the AI bubble to burst
Yeah, the hope isn't dead.
Dont worry, we gotta wait just two more decades and prices will drop.
"Hope is just a first step on a road to disappointment"
After one price hike after another for almost a decade soon, roughly since 2017. There is no point to hope anymore, there will either be some new issues or manufactures have just gotten used to the high prices and will not lower those significantly. Even if they do start to bring down prices and AI shit ends, everyone will run to upgrade their rigs and scalpers will take full advantage of it. This is new reality.
Better to just find a new hobby.
I bought my RTX 2060 for $300 in 2019. I could have gotten an RX 9060 XT for the same money that's almost twice as fast and had 2 gb more RAM when it launched (16gb never dropped in price to msrp afaik)
You can whine about it, but you got double the performance in 6 years.
I'm afraid they can continue artificially inflating their value longer than my PC will last...