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But this is something you that they never really had to deal with before. Previously, graphics cards were not really correlated with any kind of market. And sales ramped up and down predictably. They had no reason to put money into being able to quickly ramp up production within a few weeks or a month. And now it’s no surprise that they can’t keep up with the fast paced crypto ups and downs.

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Other than games, 3D visualization, modelling that is.

But if EA’s stock goes up it doesn’t mean that all of the sudden people are going to go out and buy graphics cards. Where with bitcoin, they actually do it.

No, but when something like Crysis with minimum requirements for a DX 10 class GPU, yes.

Feel free to update example to Fortnight or something similar more recent.

The interesting thing here is all the "big" games in the past few years have had fairly modest requirements(MOBA stuff, fortnite, etc). It's been a while since there was a huge blockbuster game everyone was buzzing about that was especially taxing. PUBG sort of sucks power but it runs like crap even with a ridiculously beefy machine, and not because it's graphically intense.

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