If their salaries is covered by the division that makes up 80% of their revenues, how would they ever be able to do that long term and stay profitable if they close it down? The money has to come from somewhere and the other divisions simply aren't cutting it. Not only are they going to lose...
The entire global market is on the edge of collapse. There is far less money available in your average home for non-essentials. This is something GPU makers are going to have to deal with. If they attempt to maintain high prices, it will make it even less likely people will upgrade. Why spend...
It effects the story as much as having anything else that is lore breaking. The most important character in Tolkein is the world itself and that world was meticulously crafted, and introducing things that would not exist in it breaks the character.
Microsoft and Intel went into contract that did not include pricing reductions of the P3. So through the entire console life, they were paying the exact same amount for each processor, despite the processor getting cheaper and cheaper to produce. Intel refused to renegotiate the contract and...