On par with the competing product? Sure. On par with inflation? Not by a long shot. GPU prices tripled a couple years back. Inflation accounted for only a small fraction of that. They have come down somewhat since then, but nowhere close to where they should be even with inflation.

As usual team red very close in comparison

Indeed. Both brands being overpriced doesn't make them any less overpriced. Cryptocurrency and scalping may be mostly gone now, but corporate greed persists.

That's not Todd Howard's fault, but when he makes a snarky comment expecting everyone to cough up that kind of money to play his game, it's more than a little tone deaf.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 year ago

I'll admit didn't know the 4000 was that high, but yeah 1200 for the midrange card is too much. If it stays like this I may switch back to team Red. I do believe costs are probably higher, (I remember buying my first board with an AGP slot), the ones now are... a bit more complicated and complex to make, but the jump from 800 in 2020 to 1200 in 2023 is too much.