Exactly, and this is why, unfortunately, I'm still rocking a GTX960. I really need to upgrade, but $400+ for a 6gb 1060 is just too much.

That's not Nvidias fault.

Blame the miners for raising demand. Nvidia cant force Newegg to lower their prices.

Yeah, uh, I don't know if you know this, but Nvidia has a long history of anti-competitive nonsense. Gameworks primary purpose is to fuck up performance on AMD cards (worthy of note: that time Fallout 4 disabled it in an update and suddenly AMD cards performed just as well as their Nvidia equivilants) and once AMD figured out how to *mostly* mitigate that at driver level, Nvidia switched to hairworks which *also* cripples AMD performance for no actual visual benefit and forced AMD to implement driver level tessilation overrides to prevent that.

And it's bad for *everybody* when shit like that happens. AMD has to waste time an effort trying to deal with sabotage rather than on designing better products, Nvidia wastes time and money sabotaging AMD instead of making better products, and Nvidia gets to charge a metric asston for all their stuff while knowing people don't really have much of a choice but to buy it because of said AMD sabotage.

(Intel does the same shit, but with cpus)

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm