Japanese gaming PC builders cause havoc at Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 lottery

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Japanese gaming PC builders cause havoc at Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 lottery

A Japanese electronics store has inadvertently caused mayhem after attempting to run a lottery for prospective buyers of Nvidia's new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 gaming GPUs. The store planned to hand out up to 100 tickets to those in line, but far more people turned up, causing damage to the local area and trespassing on neighboring properties in order to skip ahead in the line.

The store in question is called PC Koubou, and like many stores around the world, this one was having to deal with the reality of extremely limited supply of new Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs. However, while it came up with an idea for how to be as fair and reasonable at handing out cards as it could, some of those wanting to grab the new best graphics card champions weren't so high-minded.

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