In Germany not a single (online) FE of either 5080 or 5090 was actually sold to a "real" person. All got bought up prior to launch. This is a disgrace, Nvidia.

Not really fresh news anymore, but I haven't seen a post about this on this sub.

Short story: ProShop is the FE partner for Nvidia in Germany. The shop links leaked prior to launch and bots bought the whole stock 30 minutes before the official launch.

More about the whole case (in German): https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Geforce-RTX-5090-Grafikkarte-281029/News/Ausverkauf-vor-dem-Verkaufsstart-1464918/

We've seen bad launches. Everyone expected it to be bad. But it was even worse. This is a real disgrace. I'm not even blaming ProShop or anything. The root of this issue is Nvidia. They don't really care at all about their customer experience. This has to stop.