Posted September 17, 2018
blotunga: The price of GTX 1080 Ti's should come down in the near future since the new generation is due out soon
Ancient-Red-Dragon: I disagree. The 10 series cards are not coming down. There is no reason why they will, since they are still in extremely high demand, and that isn't going to change. Nvidia has a total monopoly over the market and competes with no one except themselves, and they are using that as the basis from which to exploit their customers. They deliberately priced the 20 series at extortionary scam prices so that people who are not rich will be forced to buy the years-old tech of the 10 series at around its full MSRP, even though it shouldn't be worth that much any more since it's old.
And this way, people are buying 10 series cards in droves for way cheaper than the 20 series, and are happy because they think they are getting a "deal," even though they are really not.
So Nvidia gets to offload all their old obsolete 10 series cards at full (or almost full) price, and also take in obscene amounts of money from the rich people who buy 20 series at outrageous insane prices. It's a win/win for them. But for consumers, it's a horrible situation.
The prices will drop (they always have on new releases and the retailers have to counter the influx of used cards from previous 1080ti owners) but it will not be nearly as much as it used to be. But still, even a 10-15% discount would be huge (they still ask $900+ (after VAT, import fees and such) for a new 1080ti in my country).
Post edited September 18, 2018 by idbeholdME