Очікування відеокарт NVIDIA RTX 5090 у США / Reddit
We are wrote about the lottery in Japan on the day of the NVIDIA RTX 5090 launch. Such draws are traditional in the country, and they allow for a fair distribution of the shortage. But one of them went wrong.
According to Japanese media, the lottery of the PC Koubou store ended in chaos. People were climbing over the fence of a neighboring kindergarten, screams were heard, and the crowd damaged the sign of the institution. Probably, the reason is that the lottery ended before most of the visitors arrived, which led to disappointment and disorder.
In the rest of the stores in the world, everything went more smoothly, but there were long live queues. Some, such as the Swedish store Inet, had to leave customers with nothing as of this morning. It was waiting for a delivery from a courier service, and almost certainly small batches of video cards were sold out instantly.
The US-based Micro Center chain had only 233 RTX 5090 and 2393 RTX 5080 graphics cards across all of its US stores. This is an extremely small number, but the data is unofficial and comes from Reddit. The store is in Tustin, California, which we also wrote about, gathered a line of more than 300 people in the morning — given the above figures, people at the end of the line will get nothing.
Website VideoCardz continues to be surprised by the shortage and considers it artificial. Nothing prevented NVIDIA from postponing sales so that its partners could prepare the required number of graphics cards.