The RTX 3080 is now on sale in Australia, but it looks impossible to get one. Minutes before the 11pm on-sale date even hit, retailers such as Scorptec, Mwave, PLE and Centrecom were all struggling to keep up with demand, failing to load or showing errors.
At the time of writing, retailers have either sold out of partner cards from the likes of Gigabyte, MSI and Asus (before we even had a chance to load the page), or they’re still struggling to load.
It was fairly obvious that this thing was going to be hard to come by, with Mwave announcing that they’d raffle the Founder’s Edition, but to see it sell out instantly is definitely frustrating. Especially after the fact that the reviews were so positive.
https://press-start.com.au/news/pcmac/2020/09/17/the-oculus-quest-2-is-also-available-to-pre-order-in-australia/
Here’s a couple of tweets that look to sum up the experience:
Pictured below: @NvidiaANZ's strategy for a video card launch pic.twitter.com/by5clGrRY3
— Joab Gilroy (@Joabyjojo) September 17, 2020
Nvidia RTX 3000 series cards are officially on sale. You can tell this because every website selling them has crashed.
— Skill Up (@SkillUpYT) September 17, 2020
Nvidia's strategy to sell the gtx 3080 online at 11pm pic.twitter.com/XPvbfiFRF4
— Fox (@Aerial_Fox) September 17, 2020
— Mwave Australia (@MwaveAu) September 17, 2020
