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by aemoron 1364 days ago
The European prices are ridiculous. 4090 starting 1999€. I guess I'll be skipping another generation of cards...
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You do realize that it’s about 350 euro in added 22% VAT, right? That makes it about $/€50 different. You expecting a massive discount or something? I’m not saying euro pricing isn’t usual higher, but everyone always forgets the tax.
Yes, I do realize the tax. The price is ridiculous nevertheless. I do not expect anything else but reasonable pricing.

Stop being a corporate apologist. Nvidia is known for anti consumer behaviour since forever. This is just another Turingesque launch. i.e. bad.

I swear you "but the tax" people always crawl out the woodwork whenever someone is discontent with pricing.

The tax is literally the problem with quoting the price in Euros.

As far as the price, the equivalent card from the 3 series was the 3090 RTX, which released at $1499 msrp 2 years ago. Given the inflation over past few years, $100 increase is not an increase in constant dollars. This new top of the line card has twice the performance for effectively the same price.

Yes these top of the line cards are crazy expensive, but it doesn’t seem like this is actually worse than the 3 series pricing. You are talking about more than 6 Xbox’s worth of compute here for an ultra enthusiast market.

It's also a problem by USD oriented pricing. It tend to be done by US based company like Apple and Nvidia. I found new Samsung Galaxy price isn't looks so bad unlike them because they are Korean.
Yes, US companies tend to price a bit higher in non-USD in order to hedge against currency risk. Their profits are reported in USD.