Amazon Japan brings loot boxes to desktop GPUs with a 2% chance of winning an RTX 3000 or Radeon RX 6000 graphics card for ~US$122

Current generation graphics cards remain as difficult as ever to come by, especially at close to their MSRP. AMD and NVIDIA continue to churn out cards though, such as the RX 6500 XT and the RTX 3080 12 GB. Incidentally, both cards have arrived to mixed responses and for nowhere near MSRP in the RX 6500 XT's case. By contrast, NVIDIA has not even announced an MSRP for the RTX 3080 12 GB.

With the current state of the market in mind, Amazon Japan has decided to allow GPU loot boxes onto its website. Available for JPY 14,000 (~US$122), the loot boxes supposedly contain a graphics card from one of five generations. As the screenshot below shows, the seller claims that there is a 70% chance of people winning a graphics card that is older than the GeForce GTX 900 or AMD Radeon RX 500 series.

Hence, people are likely paying JPY 14,000 (~US$122) for a graphics card released over eight years ago, such as the GeForce GT 710 or the Radeon R9 280X. In comparison, people have less than a 5% chance of winning last-generation graphics cards, such as the RTX 2060 or the RX 5500 XT. Worse still, Amazon Japan does not accept returns for these loot boxes, although this may be against its terms of service. Hopefully, Amazon does not start selling these loot boxes elsewhere.

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