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Interesting question.

I believe nVidia once had a policy of deliberately crippling the double-precision performance of their regular consumer graphics cards, in an effort to push their high-end computation-friendly 'workstation' cards, but that's not quite the same thing.

Not a rock-solid source, but: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/why-include-fp64....

Personally I've always wished they'd just do backordering, especially with the PS5. Pre-orders sold out? That's fine just let me get in a queue instead of having to check back constantly and try to race for one. I think that alone would kill the scalper market.

I don't think it would, people would still be willing to pay more to cut the line.

Probably some, but I'm not sure it'd be enough to maintain a market. All my friends I game with seem to think they'd prefer just being able to back-order to the current system, and clearly basing market predictions based on myself and my friend group couldn't be wrong :-).

Hey, I would prefer back ordering too. Looks like your model is confirmed 100% accurate.

Right, why not just conduct auctions?