Theories/Conspiracy for why RX 480 prices are so low low ATM?

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as you can see: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137049 or https://slickdeals.net/f/9789087-sapphire-nitro-radeon-4gb-rx-480-165-ar-newegg

An RX 480 can be had for just 154.99$ or 164.99$ for a more prettier version. GTX 1050ti can be had for 129.99$. Who in their dead mind would pay 130$ for a GTX 1050ti when 25$ more can get them an RX 480/GTX 1060 performance? 154.99$ is a whopping 100$ lower than a Radeon HD 6950 2gb someone paid 250$ for back in 2010/2011 ish. LET ME REPEAT: 100$ CHEAPER than a 40nm 6900 in 2010!! Insanely new breakthrough powerful tech, just through the gate, this much cheaper?

So why is this so? my theory/conspiracy is that all the game companies in the world got into some kind of a temporary alliance/conglomerate thing to subsidize card companies so they sell their current breakthrough midrange shits, right just after a huge die sink from 28nm to 14nm, just at the right time, for low.

Why? so they can make games with higher graphics technology and more modern graphics, why? so they can sell more games. It seems like games with insane graphics sells more, given or take gameplays being a bonus add-in, no data here just pure speculation.

So it seems to them it's just all an investment, game companies/publisher like EA/Ubisoft/Blizzard/whoelse/Bedestha/Activision. Your thoughts? give me some theories if you know. Like maybe you take an economic class and it's supply and demand chain thing.

Just imagine what it would be like if the averages of the world's computer be an RX 480 4GB? it's not a PLAYSTATION 4/Xbox One's Radeon HD 7850 that's for sure, give or take PRO/Scorpio.

They'll prolly make something like WoW 2 with Mass Effect Andromeda's graphics if the averages is so.
 
what you have is call a loss leader in retail. you see them with the get 4 tires pay for three the forth one free. or local food shop that have 5 buck burger days. the store knows it losing money on product x but hopes people buy other items like x-large fries and drinks. or power supply and new case or other pc parts. on amd side they dropped the map prices so they wont let one of there better resellers be burnt buy having a lot of old stock left when the new product hits.
 


Agreed. I wouldn't expect them to be reducing inventory this soon though. After a quick Google and a visit to a few retailers Newegg is trying to make the slow quarter buy severly underselling the competition. They are aware of Vega. They don't want people to wait 6 months. If they can reduce the price on a fairly popular GFX card, stealing some customers from other sites then maybe , just maybe they will buy the rest of their hardware there. Lose a little here but make up a lot more over there. Gives them massive exposure too. They know friends tell friends too. Made you come all they way here and tell it on the mountaintop. It's all about marketing strategies so they can stack up the Benjamins. Conspiracy theories? That's 2 sites over and 3 doors down.