Sony and Microsoft can set the MSRP, but scalpers still going to scalp unless you are lucky enough to find one.
Yes, I am lucky. So are my friends, many have switched to consoles now.
I didn't know how powerful XSX is until I watch the reviews and several enthusiasts' youtube sharing.
Another lucky thing I've got is that while I was hoping to get a high end graphics card like the RX 6800 XT, I was "cut off" from it and in return I get an XSX which is practically a RX 6800 XT/RTX 3080 compatible with FidelityFX class of performance at RTX 3070 MSRP value. I still reckon it is DLSS comparable performance. The dynamic resolution scaling is just fabulous!
scalp if they must
I couldn't care less. These street beggars are just so pathetic.
I checked Ebay before posting my comment and the xbox series x is being sold for around $750 and the PS5 is being sold for between $750 and $850
Granted the scalping is nowhere near as bad as gaming GPUs for PC
I have the following views towards scalpers and that is so without prejudice.
I grow up in this part of the world where the population is rather high. People take opportunities to make money, fast money I mean. There are countless stories about how successful tycoons are created and being admired for their "success", of course nobody mentions anything about the way they've got from nothing to everything in no time. I was brought up in a middle class family, my father the bread and butter made his way from a bank clerk to a bank manager earning as nVidia said hard earned money. He sent us to the UK for tertiary education and spent all his earnings. He retired and migrated to Australia with his retirement funds, had he not sent us to the UK he would have became a real millionaire. Integrity is everything in his time as a banker. Today, such integrity is strange in each and every single financial institution, even the Federal Reserve is no exception. I worked for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deutsche Bank, S.W.I.F.T, Hewlett-Packard and State Street Bank myself and there are certain core values we all believe in. Those tycoons mentioned earlier made their money out of some "illegal" ways yet government authorities cover for them. As a consequence, this culture nurtures a scalper mentality in almost every opportunists in the land.
The western civilization originally was free from such bad influence but as the world goes round; globalization normalizes and as it gains general popularities, like a pandemic, such bad influence sweeps across the Atlantic to the other side of the world. One good example is the properties' price in London, New York, Vancouver and Toronto. Same in Tokyo and Singapore where capitalism is seen as a back door opened for such viral attacks, silently. People won't notice coz this viral attack is gradual without sound. Have you seen the movie "Hunt for the Red October"? The Red October was built to shower multiple nuclear warheads out of New York, Washington and the entire east coast with little or no warning on or before impact. This "silent" change of culture and peoples' mentality in the USA and the UK are step-by-step without one feeling being changed. In fact, the supply was not that short of, but some "invisible force" create a false "high demand" either by way of propaganda or fake buyers. The fact which makes one shivers is that such fake buyers are not a few in numbers but a giant network of people that collaborate together on one single goal -
Scalp whatever is scalp-able. Unfortunately, the West takes it! But of course, the West has already been infiltrated. Blame for no one else but yourself. Why did politicians in bed with foreign women from the East and makes decision based on the good feel of his johnson?! Too much "V"
I wouldn't surprise of one day the USA falls apart which is in fact not far from that day. The more the West adapts to these bad influence without feeling nothing wrong, the happier that "Silent" invader is. While she is growing, you the USA is declining.
Referring particularly to the shortage of graphics card which by extension the shortage of semiconductors, from I see is that the USA relies too much on TSAMC and places exceedingly too much trust on the Taiwanese. Imagine one day if the cold war between the USA and the China turns to a hot one, where will Taiwan stand? The answer is obvious if one studies WWII history hard enough.
The fall of the USA together with Christianity commences from here-on-in.
I was thinking of dusting off the ps4 to play some fight night champions. That's about it...
I really wish that the USA can get independent from TSMC and the Far East chain as soon as she possibly can. Not until then will the nation can produce their own iPhone, XBox, EVGA cards...etc. Stand up strong again please, don't let them win. God bless America!
Those are my last words.