Poopfeast420

The release was "narrowed down" once already, so this doesn't mean anything.

Confirmed like the announcement on that one xbox show?

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.

Don't think the last point is true, since there was a report recently that said almost 50% of game time over one month was spent on live service games.

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.