Are you living in a gamer bubble? Most major phone manufacturers have lower spec budget phones, especially when it comes to other markets. Samsung released 24 phones in 2023, from 90EUR to 1899EUR. I can’t tell if you think rural farmers in Mozambique either don’t have mobile phones, or are all rocking an iPhone 16 ProSuperMaXtreme.
And for every 1 person playing Star Citizen, or Cyberpunk at 4K/240mhz, there’s probably 50 people playing Runescape or Lineage.
I think you read my comment the wrong way. Maybe I really suck at explain concept but here is my another attempt. Nvidia, like Apple have established mid-high end foot hold in terms of market share. They exploit that position by making product tiers you either pay up or go to the “inferior” brand. So even their “budget” card is really not up to the task if your Runescape player got hyped up one day by some trailer and saw the requirement in Rtx 3060 for min spec, “oh, my 3050 should still be able to run it” and boom reality check. (And maybe go back to runescape after getting disappointed and/or ask for refund since game runs like shit at minimum settings.)
It’s a trap product unless you are fully aware of what it can do and specifically acquire it for specific build(say, a retro console emu build that let you run games up to like WiiU/Xbox360). And you have way better option either in used market or the Intel arc is better than this crap.
For people with no budget to even buy a slightly future proof GPU, making this kind of purchase is worse than just go buy used ps4 or Xbox one from Craigslist/fb market place and still get a ton of games that usually come with the console.
Are you living in a gamer bubble? Most major phone manufacturers have lower spec budget phones, especially when it comes to other markets. Samsung released 24 phones in 2023, from 90EUR to 1899EUR. I can’t tell if you think rural farmers in Mozambique either don’t have mobile phones, or are all rocking an iPhone 16 ProSuperMaXtreme.
And for every 1 person playing Star Citizen, or Cyberpunk at 4K/240mhz, there’s probably 50 people playing Runescape or Lineage.
I think you read my comment the wrong way. Maybe I really suck at explain concept but here is my another attempt. Nvidia, like Apple have established mid-high end foot hold in terms of market share. They exploit that position by making product tiers you either pay up or go to the “inferior” brand. So even their “budget” card is really not up to the task if your Runescape player got hyped up one day by some trailer and saw the requirement in Rtx 3060 for min spec, “oh, my 3050 should still be able to run it” and boom reality check. (And maybe go back to runescape after getting disappointed and/or ask for refund since game runs like shit at minimum settings.)
It’s a trap product unless you are fully aware of what it can do and specifically acquire it for specific build(say, a retro console emu build that let you run games up to like WiiU/Xbox360). And you have way better option either in used market or the Intel arc is better than this crap.
For people with no budget to even buy a slightly future proof GPU, making this kind of purchase is worse than just go buy used ps4 or Xbox one from Craigslist/fb market place and still get a ton of games that usually come with the console.