Just like AMD, things went unexpectedly well for Nvidia int he second quarter of this year, even though the the crypto market decline was heralding a gloomy period. Nvidia managed to pull this off by forcing some AIB partners into overstocking Pascal GPUs, and the green team is doing this again with 10 major partners that were forced to contract shipments for the RTX 2000-series in order to be the first to deliver the new cards.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-is-forcing-AIB-partners-into-RTX-2000-sereis-contracted-shipments-despite-GTX-1000-series-overstock.324260.0.html
For me, this is karma... We as gamer still can't FORGIVE Nvidia's AIB greedily hike the gpu price over the roof because of mining craze not so long time ago.
And now when the cripto mining is not so profitable as before, we can see some card still way high from MSRP even it is a 2 years old card.....
And this is not Nvidia doing.. This is simply AIB partners greediness....
So now they had what coming for them.... And at least, this is good for end consumer like us when AIB are forced to lower their price on over stocks card...