Gamers built the GPU market, now AI demand prices them out — Reddit venting
ark_forever · reddit · 2026-11-11
A Reddit post argues that Nvidia's GPU business was built on gamers — from the 1999 GeForce 256 designed for Quake III and Unreal — yet AI demand has now pushed RAM and GPU prices so high that gaming, long a luxury in the author's native India, has become unaffordable worldwide. The author suspects an AI overvaluation keeps prices from ever falling.
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