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Rebates are definitely normal, but as for your first point, I honestly believe AMD were just going to give them for the launch, and thought they could get away with it. AMDs marketing is so bad, that this makes the most sense to me.
Even a Reference Model wouldn’t have mattered, in this case, because to me, it looks like AMD wanted to be too much like NVIDIA and set the price for the chips too high (which they sell to the partners to make the GPUs). That’s why AMD needs rebates to get the cards actually to MSRP.
As for your third point, it looks like they didn’t just prioritize brick and mortar stores, but only those in the US (see all the posts about Micro Center stock). Another genius move by AMD marketing?
Sources similar to yours, and I think that’s been the case for years: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250109PD237/tsmc-54nm-3nm-capacity-2025.html https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmcs-arizona-chip-fab-production-is-sold-out-through-late-2027
TSMC is also basically the only supplier, which is a reason the US and EU push so much for their own production lines, although it looks like the US wants to stop theirs.
NVIDIA used Samsung for one generation, people are saying because of the deal they got, but went back to TSMC, apparently because of yield issues.
Intel was behind schedule for a long time, and even used TSMC for their current line up, but I think their new 18A process is supposed to come this year, who knows how that will turn out.
For NVIDIA specifically I’ve also heard that the HBM chips for the high-end AI cards are also a bottleneck, otherwise we might get even fewer consumer GPUs, but I never followed up on that.
Just saw one retailer in Germany (nbb) still with one 9070 XT for 689€ (MSRP I guess), but when you click the listing, you get an error. The rest are 800€+
Other retailers I checked are all sold out, even at 900€, if they even have the 9000-series.
On geizhals (website to check and compare prices for tons of different shops) is only one single 9070 XT listing, a 900€ model directly from the ASUS store and even there you get a 404.
AMD tried everything to mess this launch up, but it looks like it came out alright. It’s not amazing, except maybe compared to the 50-series.
Watched the HUB video and gonna watch this as well, but if cards are actually available at MSRP (should be 720€ or something in Germany I think), I might get one and give Linux a proper shot.
There’s no opportunity. Intel sat on their ass for years, but NVIDIA is actually innovating. One bad-to-mediocre gen won’t do anything, especially since AMD decided to sit out the high-end market this time.
They also have to follow NVIDIA, because they’re just too big. If AMD introduced the RT and ML hardware six years ago, nobody would have cared, because they had like 15% market share. Now it’s even worse and AMD has to fight for the scraps with Intel.
I’ve played three time through Remake. First when it launched on Normal and Hard difficulty, and then again, last December in anticipation for Rebirth.
While I didn’t mind too much my first time, the game definitely has a lot of very slow sections. Like you mentioned, you are constantly forced to walk very slowly, wait for animations, etc. It really feels like Square tried to pad the game a lot.
I really liked the combat at first, but my on Hard difficulty it got terrible. I was always annoyed, that your other party members just stood around and never attacked. Rebirth fixed it a little bit, since they actually are doing stuff, just deal basically no damage and don’t get ATB charge. A few fights are also just terribly designed in my opinion, and Rebirth just doubled down here.
About things not carrying over, I was also a bit disappointed at first, that you basically have to start from scratch in Rebirth, but it wasn’t a big deal. The sequel has other, bigger problems, in my opinion, that drag it down.
The main reason I still like the game, are the characters. If not for them, the very first playthrough would have been enough.
I pre-order games. Steams refund policy makes it pretty much risk-free. Usually it’s shortly before launch, if I want to play the game immediately anyway. For big games, reviews pretty much always come out before launch or on the day of, so I can still always cancel, if it looks bad. I don’t remember regretting any of these purchases, even if I didn’t like all the games.
I really have to get back to this. I played through Doom 1 and 2 when it first dropped, then wanted to go through Final Doom (Evilution and Plutonia) for the first time, but got distracted with other games.
There were also some minor bugs, that I hoped would be fixed, but to be honest, I don’t even know what they were.
I mean yes, but in reality people are just standing in front of the auction house or bank on their new $90 mount.
Also, the game has tons of auction houses in all the different cities anyway. Auction House flippers, can stand anywhere, but players in the current expansion are staying in the current capital anyway (and Orgrimmar or Stormwind). So I guess not really.
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.
As a certified Trails hater I stopped paying attention with Cold Steel, but is this still the same terrible story, all the way back from Trails in the Sky or something new?