Wednesday, January 29th 2025
Japanese Store Readies Lottery System Ahead of GeForce RTX 5090 & 5080 GPU Launch
Goodwill Nagoya Osu—a Japanese PC hardware store—has devised a lottery ticket system for potential buyers of GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards. Earlier today, the shop's social media announced a strict set of rules—providing a preview of this Friday's buying experience. Several retail outlets (around the globe) are preparing various anti-scalping measures ahead of a predicted bloodbath—a particularly brutal example was highlighted recently. AutoBuy, a Taiwanese store, demands that customers purchase almost an entire build's worth of pricey PC components—just to get onto a waiting list for GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards.
Goodwill Japan's prize draw looks quite reasonable in comparison. Their announcement reads as follows: "the next-generation GPUs—which will go on sale from 11:00 on January 31—will be sold by lottery at the Nagoya Osu store. Lottery tickets will be distributed from 10:20. Those who are in line at 10:20 will be eligible for the lottery." Industry experts believe that high-end graphics card enthusiasts will experience long-term shortages—possibly up to three months after this week's international rollout. Goodwill Nagoya Osu will not reveal their (proverbial) full deck of cards until tomorrow night—available products and quantities will be announced at 11:00 PM.
Sources:
Goodwill JP Tweet, VideoCardz, Tom's Hardware
Goodwill Japan's prize draw looks quite reasonable in comparison. Their announcement reads as follows: "the next-generation GPUs—which will go on sale from 11:00 on January 31—will be sold by lottery at the Nagoya Osu store. Lottery tickets will be distributed from 10:20. Those who are in line at 10:20 will be eligible for the lottery." Industry experts believe that high-end graphics card enthusiasts will experience long-term shortages—possibly up to three months after this week's international rollout. Goodwill Nagoya Osu will not reveal their (proverbial) full deck of cards until tomorrow night—available products and quantities will be announced at 11:00 PM.
16 Comments on Japanese Store Readies Lottery System Ahead of GeForce RTX 5090 & 5080 GPU Launch
The advantage to the consumer of free-market competition on commodity items no longer applies if the commodity is in such scarce supply that it cannot be called a commodity any more.
It remains to be seen if I can actually buy one in South-Africa at MSRP, as they claim, and when the launch is live.
I believe we in the Netherlands had maybe 2-3 5090's and maybe a dozen or so 5080's it's was a joke really.