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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
&gt; Only if the other people would just stop buying their cards so we can send a clear message. I think it's time we discourage those 4090 flex posts, they are part of the problem.

As if the sub isn't already responding toxically to any post that has high end hardware. The real problem is that people have deluded themselves into thinking they need halo-level hardware for everyday gaming. News flash, you don't. I still have a 1080 and to nobody's surprise it working pretty fine.

High end hardware has always been priced with blatant disregard for consumer price sensitivity - do we not remember Intel extreme edition CPUs going for $1000... in 2013? That's $1280 in 2023 money. People back then were smart enough to realize that these products weren't for them; what changed? Everyone talks as though cards like the 4090 and 7900XTX should be for everyone when it should be clear to everyone that it's most certainly not.
gpt
My bet is on linear time mind share.

people joke about Intel releasing 20 SKU's all at once, but when Intel releases those CPU's, there's a set of  i3 CPU's, i5 CPU's, and i7 CPU's (and later there were the i9's), so a person can look at the entire line and know immediately where they fall on this generation's price/performance ladder even if the actual release dates are slightly off of each other.

For GPU's it's one tier every 2-3 months or so. So there's more time for that one GPU of focus to occupy people mind share.

No one is going to remember the absurd value proposition of the 4070ti once 4050's on are shelves.