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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
That's true but those gamers were a minority and many simply broke down because miners inflated the market for so long.

Without miners, this strategy does not work (see 4070 TI and 4080 sales numbers). Nvidia is an *incredibly* greedy company, if they could have gotten away with it before now, they absolutely would have tried it.

I still think they made the 4070 TI and 4080 awful value on purpose so people buy out the older cards.
gpt
If those gamers were a minority, then the prices are going to come down, because that small group that has already bought the cards won’t buy more this year, and they won’t be able to sustain annual buys of overpriced cards. Nvidia can’t afford to not sell cards, believe it or not. It costs money to sit on them.

As I understand it, mining is no longer a factor. So not an issue for the future.

So if you’re right, it’s a non-issue. If I’m right, it’s a non-issue.