I mean, consoles are better than last gen consoles but likely won't launch at 200 more than the last gen (and if they do I'll criticize that too). They wanna sell some units after all. They could in theory make a beast of a console that includes one of these gpus and sell it for $2500 but then, justified by the performance gap or not, they might as well drop out of the console race if they take that route, games will optimize for the lower end competitor rather than fully take advantage of the beast fewer people buy anyway. To me, nvidia is stretching it with these prices and they aren't justified by being x amount better than the previous range (I mean, that's obviously natural) when they will still become obsolette and outperformed by the new and improved models at the same pace as always, when games will still utilize their features and bring them to their knees over time at the same pace as well. It's all about the lack of competition, just like intel before recent ryzens, as far as I'm concerned. The 3080 is the modern 1080 equivalent all things considered but costs that much more than that did. Bad. Even without AMD competition one might as well wait a year and get a 4060 hopefully cheaper than a 3080 that still destroys consoles and lasts you the gen. Vram requirements and behavior will have been measured by then so hopefully they won't deliberately cripple the lower end models in such ways again.
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