Prices rarely, if ever, go down and there is a push across the board to offload things "to the cloud" for a range of reasons.

That said: If your focus is on gaming, AMD is REAL good these days and, if you can get past their completely nonsensical naming scheme, you can often get a really good GPU using "last year's" technology for 500-800 USD (discounted to 400-600 or so).