As a certified Trails hater I stopped paying attention with Cold Steel, but is this still the same terrible story, all the way back from Trails in the Sky or something new?

While I do prefer turn-based, I played through Pillars 1 last year, and with the tons of options for auto-pause it wasn’t really that bad. BGEE was also fine, and my problems with the game wasn’t RTwP.

I think KOTOR is the only Star Wars game I have ever played. I don’t really care if this remake ever comes out, but I’d probably play it.

Rebates are definitely normal, but as for your first point, I honestly believe AMD were just going to give them for the launch, and thought they could get away with it. AMDs marketing is so bad, that this makes the most sense to me.

Even a Reference Model wouldn’t have mattered, in this case, because to me, it looks like AMD wanted to be too much like NVIDIA and set the price for the chips too high (which they sell to the partners to make the GPUs). That’s why AMD needs rebates to get the cards actually to MSRP.

As for your third point, it looks like they didn’t just prioritize brick and mortar stores, but only those in the US (see all the posts about Micro Center stock). Another genius move by AMD marketing?

Sources similar to yours, and I think that’s been the case for years: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250109PD237/tsmc-54nm-3nm-capacity-2025.html https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmcs-arizona-chip-fab-production-is-sold-out-through-late-2027

TSMC is also basically the only supplier, which is a reason the US and EU push so much for their own production lines, although it looks like the US wants to stop theirs.

NVIDIA used Samsung for one generation, people are saying because of the deal they got, but went back to TSMC, apparently because of yield issues.

Intel was behind schedule for a long time, and even used TSMC for their current line up, but I think their new 18A process is supposed to come this year, who knows how that will turn out.

For NVIDIA specifically I’ve also heard that the HBM chips for the high-end AI cards are also a bottleneck, otherwise we might get even fewer consumer GPUs, but I never followed up on that.

The limiting factor is TSMC, AMD can’t just “ramp up” anything. The only way they can make more gaming stuff, is by cutting down their server and workstation divisions, which won’t happen.

Retailers say they can’t offer the card at MSRP, unless AMD subsidize them.

Either the card just cost too much to make, meaning MSRP should be higher, or someone in the supply chain is greedy (everywhere).

The previous Unity port was also good enough for casual Doom players, but the new one is just better with mod compatibility, the mod browser or online multiplayer.

If you can believe the pictures posted on the net, most apparently cards went to Microcenter in the US. Some locations supposedly had 500+ each of both cards.

In Europe, it was only a bit better than the 50-series, unless you want to pay like 20% over MSRP.

Also seems like AMD only cares about the US again. Everywhere else just gets the crumbs, availability seemingly only a bit better than NVIDIA.

Just saw one retailer in Germany (nbb) still with one 9070 XT for 689€ (MSRP I guess), but when you click the listing, you get an error. The rest are 800€+

Other retailers I checked are all sold out, even at 900€, if they even have the 9000-series.

On geizhals (website to check and compare prices for tons of different shops) is only one single 9070 XT listing, a 900€ model directly from the ASUS store and even there you get a 404.

Super Shotgun from Doom 2, love the feeling when you shoot it.

What’s your issue with Linux compatibility and NVIDIA?

I know the drivers are proprietary and not as good as AMD, but my only issue a year or two ago with a 3080 was VRR with multiple monitors, which is supposed to work now.

AMD tried everything to mess this launch up, but it looks like it came out alright. It’s not amazing, except maybe compared to the 50-series.

Watched the HUB video and gonna watch this as well, but if cards are actually available at MSRP (should be 720€ or something in Germany I think), I might get one and give Linux a proper shot.

Same. I’ve played the other games with a friend and they were always a blast.

“Quietly”

They still show the old prices, but charge the new ones?

/rant Even with a press release or something, people say stuff happens quietly, just because the info wasn’t beamed directly into their heads.

There’s no opportunity. Intel sat on their ass for years, but NVIDIA is actually innovating. One bad-to-mediocre gen won’t do anything, especially since AMD decided to sit out the high-end market this time.

They also have to follow NVIDIA, because they’re just too big. If AMD introduced the RT and ML hardware six years ago, nobody would have cared, because they had like 15% market share. Now it’s even worse and AMD has to fight for the scraps with Intel.

Latest prices, listed on the Microcenter site, indicate that AMD is indeed screwing it up.

I loved 0, but every time I started Kiwami my eyes just glazed over. I played a few hours of Like a Dragon, but didn’t get far. Maybe some day I’ll give it another shot.

For someone who doesn’t really play these, but might like to, it feels like a new Yakuza game comes out every few months, which is just too much.