[mamon]

This doesn't make sense to me: why don't they simply price their cards 3x higher and sell them all to miners? Selling to the highest bidder is kind of "Capitalism 101". Their profits would skyrocket.

And what about gamers? Well... they can buy used previous gen cards from miners.

[josefx]

Some companies might be interested in keeping their long term market happy instead of loosing their flagship products to what they might consider a relatively short lived craze.

> Well... they can buy used previous gen cards from miners.

Yeah, last gen cards, which would ruin any lead NVIDIA has over its competition. Going by the steam hardware survey NVIDIA currently owns the PC market, that wont last if they whole inventory is bought up by crypto miners and might lead to serious long term consequences if gamers and engine developers shift their focus to AMD and Intel.