You're missing the point anyway. It isn't about me getting the card I want. It is about anybody being able to go onto Newegg, Amazon, whatever and simply buy the videocard. As long as they can't do that while they can do it for a competitor's product it doesn't really matter how good yours is. They're not going to jump through hoops to get it from some other region. They're not going to check nowinstock every 15m to try to jump on the meager trickle of boards coming out before the bitcoin miners snag them. They're going to say, "fuck this." and buy an nvidia board instead.
AMD had a window to sell ungodly numbers of 480 boards before Nvidia could get 1060 to market. They didn't hit the window.
My 470 arrived yesterday and gets 100+ frames in Overwatch on ultra at 1080p if I uncap the framerate which is all I needed so I'm at least sorted. If I were the typical consumer though I probably would have bought a 1060 just to "be safe".
Lastly, "I didn't have any problems doing what you are having problems with." is rarely seen as a helpful response.
Your first paragraph has fuck all to do with what I responded to... I don't disagree with it at all and isn't in any way a response to my comment.
(Edit: Except the bolded part about being able to go on Newegg, Amazon or whatever and simply buy a card. If you have access to those sites and can order their competitor's card, why can't you order theirs? Are you mad because the specific one you wanted wasn't there? Every time I've looked there's been 480s in stock. Not every version of the 480 was in stock, but there were 480s.Now I'm just confused and trying to figure out if you even know the point you are trying to make other than to justify being angry for no reason...)
The second and third ones don't either...
The last part is the only actual response and you just doubled down on acting ignorant, ignoring anything said in my previous posts.
You brought nothing but your own baggage so far and seem to be mostly having an angry conversation with yourself while quoting me considering you haven't seemed to read my last few comments in here. You just latched on to one thing I said and can't seem to get past it. You're trying to make an echo chamber of one... I'm not going to play this game.
Enjoy being angry over chip yeilds, market projections and your imagination, I guess. Have a great day.