1. No way is that happening. There will always be alternatives, and no manufacturer would ever charge below MSRP on a big ticket item like GPUs, they would be operating at a loss at that point.
2. That's not NVIDIA's fault. Blame the 3rd party retailers and scalpers for the reason price / demand went so sky high. AMD got affected by this too. And if somehow GPU-based mining skyrockets again, it will happen again.
1. That's me saying "never", in other words...
2. Are you sure I can't blame nvidia: like raising the halo product price to $1200 with Turing, from $700 with Pascal and $1500 with Ampere, raising it even more over Turing?
How about raising the 3080Ti price last minute from $1000 to $1200?
Or how about the 2080's MSRP of $800, which was also a lot more than the Pascal generation?
These cases are solely on nvidia and nobody else.
They've been raising prices and scalping us for years, it's just that in the last year we got extra scalped by everyone else on top of nvidia's scalping, that made things worse... but even if the prices stayed at MSRP, these MSRP prices nvidia put are horrible scalping prices. Official scalping prices.
These are facts, not opinions.