Will $500+ graphics cards kill off PC gaming for good?

[chazus]

I think so. As graphics card prices so up and wages stay the same, gamers are going to be faced with the choice of either downgrading or moving to consoles. If the 1170 is $500 that means the 1160 will be around $350-$400 which is way over the budget of many gamers. You'll still have people with disposable income buying the 1170+ but the rest of us will suffer. Either AMD needs to undercut (which they won't) or PC gaming is doomed..

Except... Prices aren't even that, really. And they're going down slowly as well.

GPU prices don't have an upward trend. There was a spike, yes. But generally, they don't just 'get more expensive'

[Kagthul]

I think so. As graphics card prices so up and wages stay the same, gamers are going to be faced with the choice of either downgrading or moving to consoles. If the 1170 is $500 that means the 1160 will be around $350-$400 which is way over the budget of many gamers. You'll still have people with disposable income buying the 1170+ but the rest of us will suffer. Either AMD needs to undercut (which they won't) or PC gaming is doomed.


Previous generation cards can only hang around for so long.

Except that isnt the usual price jump. At launch, the MSRP on the 1070 was 429$, and the 1060 6GB was 229$. So id expect an 1160 to be in the 200-250 range.

And honestly, if the 150$ card can still hit high settings at 1080p, than thats all the VAST majority of gamers need. The number of people gaming on high-res or high-refresh displays is a miniscule portion of the gaming population.

[arandomuser]

theoritically companies would make more powerful graphics card and the older models would become cheaper

but companies right now are refusing to make more powerful gpus so they can intentionally sell more less powerful ones at a higher price to crypto miners, and theres only 2 major companies that make gpus so its basically a cartel were stuck with like the oil emirates.

[Deleted]

A good graphics card (like the newest generation of Nvidia GTX series) has always costed around 800-1000 USD here in Denmark. You guys got it good...

[Amalaric]

A good graphics card (like the newest generation of Nvidia GTX series) has always costed around 800-1000 USD here in Denmark. You guys got it good...

Titan XYZ?

I remember when you got a good graphics card for $240 and that was a GTX 470, iirc.

[Nalera]

I bought the cheapest 1060 6gb almost two years ago for 330 CAD, today its 400 CAD. Kinda fucked up.

[Deleted]

Agree, but I think this thread was created when a 1060 6gb was circa $500 and seems in part, a commentary on whether such pricing could be sustained.

Thankfully prices are pretty much normal now.