The chart market is very crazy and the truth is that if we say this no one is surprised. For years we have seen – and suffered from – a complete lack of control over inventory, prices and status. Well, in Japan they took it a step further in releasing the NVIDIA RTX inside a mystery box; some may think it’s speculation and others a masterstroke.
Can you imagine being able to buy a NVIDIA RTX for around $110? Well, that’s exactly what happened in Japan via an Amazon marketplace store, which marketed mysterious boxes known as “loot crate” with high-end graphics inside priced at 800 yuan.
GPU Roulette: Win an NVIDIA RTX with a Mystery Box
Everyone knows about mysterious boxes that are bought without really knowing the inside until they arrive and you open them. They have been very popular for a few years, especially for the acquisition of geek merchandising. In Amazon These days a seller has appeared who, according to the information exposed by the retailer’s own page, that by buying a mystery box you can get a graphic of the series RTX 30 or one RX6000 Series.
According to the information, still valid in the Amazon store in the Japanese region, we would have a 16% chance of receiving a GTX 900 (Maxwell) or an AMD Radeon RX 300 (GCN), 8% chance of obtaining a GTX from the series 10 (Pascal) also a AMD RX500 Series and for half the chance with only 4% we would own the series RTX20 or a magic RX 5000 series from AMD. The jackpot, the NVIDIA RTX 30 series (Ampere) or a RX 6000 (RNDA 2) by AMD, they would only have one 2% chance.
All this may seem crazy, especially if we see that in 70% of the possibilities we will obtain graphics cards inferior to those mentioned. But the thing does not end there, there is also a detail to take into account and that is that the graphics, as indicated by the seller, can be new or used and they do not accept or admit no type of exchange or return given their particular characteristics.
RNG applied to real life
As if we were playing BDO (Black Desert Online), this store offers us a very interesting impulse, being able to take a graphic RTX 30 or an AMD RX 6000 for just $100 with everything against you. The truth is that it is very tempting and the money to lose is relatively small compared to the jackpot, which is remembered to be only 2% if what the store mentions is correct.
The truth is that in the Japanese country where up to they’re the order of the day and you can buy everything from action figures to clothes from a vending machine, this type of product may not stand out as much. The truth is that in a few hours from the start, all mystery boxes with graphics inside have been sold out. It is unclear if these non-illegal, but quite controversial actions will be relisted or if they will be copied elsewhere.
