7mo ago

Many Micro Center Stores Got Less Than 5 RTX 5090 Units At Launch

tech4gamers.com

Nice paper launch and how will Nvidia be working their 5080 upsell edition strategy with nothing to upsell with.

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That's still $10k worth of graphics cards. How many of these do they expect to sell at that price?
- A lot.
Artificial scarcity.
- Artificial as in, they could make more consumer cards, but chose the much more profitable business hardware.
  There aren't warehouses full of 5090s, but NVIDIA is drip feeding them to people.
- It depends, I'm not sure if it's a binning thing and they can't make enough perfect chips for the 3090. Or it might just be limited memory, they're using all the gddr7 that's being made and that's with many different suppliers.
Literally not a paper launch.
And very typical with every new Nvidia generation.
What else would anyone expect?
I've been trying to get a 5090, refreshed eight stores for a while. I saw one 5090, that you could purchase, 3200€, gone instantly. It's now the "topseller".
Two shops list the different 5090 models, none available of course, two others had 5080s for a while, before removing the listings again, although they supposedly weren't sold out.
If you go on eBay there are dozens of listings for pictures of 5090s for the MSRP with the description "humans don't buy". I love it ✊
does microcenter have any competition at this point?
- Best Buy is gigantic by comparison.
  We might not like it, but I bet they had several times more stock.
  
  I mean. I feel like best buy is not a competitor. I mean things like frys. Places you could get motherboards and such.
- You mean stores that exist where microcenter doesn't? Or what?
  
  honestly just any chain that sells lets say all the components necessary to build your own rig and like soldering stuff. Like everything computer and electronics related one could think of. I don't really care about tvs or appliances but definately want laptops and monitors.

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