A PC USER investigative journalist went to Tokyo’s Akihabara Electric Town district where they spoke to shop clerks working at various retail stores in order to conduct an in-person survey of PC hardware buying trends in the areas of graphics cards, DDR5 memory, and gaming keyboards. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40-series graphics card segment has received attention from Western media sites; models based on the RTX 4080 GPU are reportedly the least well-liked choice among consumers. Fewer individuals are picking RTX 4080 cards because of the overlap problem, according to one interviewee. Many choose the RTX 4070 Ti for high-end performance, and the RTX 4090 for ultra-high-end. As a result, we purposefully have a limited supply of the RTX 4080.

It might be a little limited in supplies globally, according to a PC Workshop employee working at the Akihabara Store.Although RTX 4090 is still in high demand, it’s getting harder to find in supply.There appears to be a shortage of supplies everywhere. This might be done in order to consider the RTX 3000 family and prevent market saturation. It is too soon to say whether NVIDIA’s preference for producing AI GPUs over high-end gaming processors is having an immediate influence on worldwide markets, although some segments of the PC hardware community think so. “The models priced in the 250,000 yen ($1665) range are still on backorder,” a different store employee noted. ITmedia noticed that the RTX 4090 model showcase cabinets/shelfs in this specific store had obvious gaps. According to rumors, a competing retailer is speculating on having a greater supply of RTX 4080 cards on hand in case their flashiest customers decide to go with the Ada Lovelace GPU, which is the second-best option, in the event that RTX 4090 restocks are scarce.