Idiotic tariffs, indifferent retailers, depraved flippers and AI mania are making the simple act of buying a graphics card the defining misery of PC gaming in 2025.
Ya I get the hype and the desire to get these cards but do you really NEED it? This is like waiting in line for days to buy the newest iPhone.
You can play all the latest games on the highest setting with the previous generation cards, and they are in stock too.
At this point buying the card isn’t about need. It’s just purely status symbol and people in this article are complaining like spoiled children that they can’t get exactly what they want the SECOND the card hits the market. Jfc.
Ya I get the hype and the desire to get these cards but do you really NEED it? This is like waiting in line for days to buy the newest iPhone.
You can play all the latest games on the highest setting with the previous generation cards, and they are in stock too.
At this point buying the card isn’t about need. It’s just purely status symbol and people in this article are complaining like spoiled children that they can’t get exactly what they want the SECOND the card hits the market. Jfc.
I don’t feel like the 4000 series ever really got to easily available at MSRP prices.
But on top of that I know a lot of folks skipped the last couple generations because the scalping was outrageous.
I hate it though. They’re not wrong that the companies selling or making GPUs could easily solve the problem, but they just don’t care.