I'm at a point where I have some skeptisim on these out of stock cards. What did Google , Nvidia try , hardware streaming content based on a premium service.My theory is these shortages aren't because of bitcoin, but because hardware vendors want to make less products but retain the same profit margins. "Upgrade to the 3070 hardware streaming package for 59.99 a month ! Not enough power? Get 20% off on the AAA 3090 package at $199.99 a month"
On top of that, governmentsd would love to have centralized base of every persons visual display data.
In short, we may never see actual products again , and will be forced onto hardware streaming platform in the near future.
I beleive humanity peaked in our era and we are decsending into a new distopia of poverty through content assimilation.
There are so many problems with your conspiracy theories that it is impractical to address them all, but I'll hit a few.
First, Nvidia is a hardware company. Even if they could force everyone into cloud gaming, why would they prefer to sell half a million GPUs to Google or Amazon or whatever rather than selling 20 million GPUs to gamers? One of the arguments that cloud gaming enthusiasts make is that because everyone shares the same hardware, there's less need for buying GPUs. That's exactly what GPU vendors don't want.
Second, Nvidia is not the only GPU vendor. Even if Nvidia were to vacate the market for gaming GPUs, AMD would step in, and vice versa. Intel is going to start selling discrete gaming GPUs that go as high end as Intel is able to make them go soon, too, and probably later this year. Even if they were to all vacate the market, ARM or Imagination would find it worth their while to make higher end discrete GPUs for gaming if they had monopoly pricing power.
Third, the price of Ethereum is not a secret. You can look it up yourself. For example:
A market capitalization of over $200 billion for data conjured up out of thin air can really distort a lot of markets.
Fourth, even if you believe that the GPU shortage is intentional on the part of hardware vendors, why do they make it come and go repeatedly? This isn't the first GPU shortage that we've had over cryptocurrencies. If it's so beneficial to stop selling GPUs, then why do they start again?
Fifth, even if you believe that governments want to spy on everyone, why would they care about exactly how everyone is faring in computer games? That's really not the juiciest secrets that most people are hiding.
Sixth, even if they did want to spy on your performance in video games, why would they want to store video of your performance? The amount of data that my computer sends to its monitors totals several terabytes per hour. Trying to store that kind of data on everyone is tremendously expensive. Trying to transmit that kind of data on everyone would take so much bandwidth as to dwarf the normal Internet, and trying to transmit that much data is just begging to get caught. It would be a lot cheaper and more practical to just get ahold of your much smaller and less frequent saved games to see how you were doing.
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First, Nvidia is a hardware company. Even if they could force everyone into cloud gaming, why would they prefer to sell half a million GPUs to Google or Amazon or whatever rather than selling 20 million GPUs to gamers? One of the arguments that cloud gaming enthusiasts make is that because everyone shares the same hardware, there's less need for buying GPUs. That's exactly what GPU vendors don't want.
Second, Nvidia is not the only GPU vendor. Even if Nvidia were to vacate the market for gaming GPUs, AMD would step in, and vice versa. Intel is going to start selling discrete gaming GPUs that go as high end as Intel is able to make them go soon, too, and probably later this year. Even if they were to all vacate the market, ARM or Imagination would find it worth their while to make higher end discrete GPUs for gaming if they had monopoly pricing power.
Third, the price of Ethereum is not a secret. You can look it up yourself. For example:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/
A market capitalization of over $200 billion for data conjured up out of thin air can really distort a lot of markets.
Fourth, even if you believe that the GPU shortage is intentional on the part of hardware vendors, why do they make it come and go repeatedly? This isn't the first GPU shortage that we've had over cryptocurrencies. If it's so beneficial to stop selling GPUs, then why do they start again?
Fifth, even if you believe that governments want to spy on everyone, why would they care about exactly how everyone is faring in computer games? That's really not the juiciest secrets that most people are hiding.
Sixth, even if they did want to spy on your performance in video games, why would they want to store video of your performance? The amount of data that my computer sends to its monitors totals several terabytes per hour. Trying to store that kind of data on everyone is tremendously expensive. Trying to transmit that kind of data on everyone would take so much bandwidth as to dwarf the normal Internet, and trying to transmit that much data is just begging to get caught. It would be a lot cheaper and more practical to just get ahold of your much smaller and less frequent saved games to see how you were doing.