this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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I take it you weren't there when the first preorders opened up.
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Even if bots were non existent there's an insanely high demand for not a lot of supply. People really need to start going into things with better expectations, knowing that it's going to be a madhouse and more than likely they will have to wait.
I remember trying to get a 3000 series graphics card in 2020. Shit just hard to get now, gaming is more profitable than movies now. Fact is day 1 it's always going to be like this - forever
No, the fact is that capitalism us bleeding is dry, and no-one cares because for one brief moment the share holders made a shit ton of money.