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This is a weird generation of consoles. If you're an early adopter, you probably saved money. That sorta thing never happens.
The old ways are gone, possibly never to return in our lifetime. My PS5, Steam Deck, and mid-range 2021 PC will have to do for the foreseeable future.
All so Sam fucking Altman can cut off supply to his competition, just trying to get even more wealthy... Scumbag...
This kind of shit used to be illegal, you know, back when America was "great." Are we great again President Krasnov?
Remember when America was great and didn't need to be "great again"? Pepperidge farms remembers...
Ummm...no.
Better than this? Yeah!
But, fuck man, the term banana republic only exists because of us.
I dunno I remember a time when Japan decided to fuck with America's boats and then they decided this whole World War 2 thing was getting pretty out of hand and decided to make it stop. They maybe went a little bit too far, but that was still generally pretty great of them.
Oh, well, the fact that we saw it all as "not our problem" until then kinda makes us opportunistic assholes, though. Especially since we exploited the hell out of the post war circumstances. Shit, original concept for the UN gave us the only veto. But we had to bribe the reluctant countries with something.
Oh, don't forget that the horrible evil enemy everyone was fighting took a LOT of inspiration in the mechanics of how to be so evil directly from American politics.
So, helping end the war? Yeah, that's generally a pretty cool thing. Everything else? Ummm, yuck.
The myth we were all taught about the nobility of our country was never true. For fucks sake, the founding of our country was upon the genocide of the native population.
No, we've never been great. Sorry.
I mean it was like reagan they stopped enforcing anti-monopoly laws. That's pretty much when the US gave up on being a real country and switched the trolley back to oligarchy.
The only good side is that devs will have to optimize and do more with less or focus less on graphics.
Some might, but others will probably make games with ridiculously high requirements so the only way most people can play them is via cloud-based subscription services.
Probably, but I guess we should boycott these and choose a model with our wallets.
Yeah I got a Series S Xbox for $250 about a year after release (literally only got it because of the price). They now go for $400.
Me with the OLED and the original:
This is my situation too! I bought the original LCD one when they were on pre-order, then my right bumper button broke (a common issue with the first models) and I took too long to request the free fix/replacement from Valve.
So my wife encouraged me to just buy one of the new OLED ones that had just released and she'd take my old one.
She hardly games on it anyway, and when she does, I showed her how to remap that bumper button to a different button. Almost no games use the trigger buttons on the underside of the Steam Deck, so those are always available.
I have an original model with a bad right bumper as well. I'm too cheap to buy a new one (or fix it) so I just remap that button. Honestly it's more comfortable to play using the back buttons.
Right? The way I hold controllers, I can barely reach the bumper buttons without shifting my whole hand, so it's much easier to just use those underside buttons.
Dystopian fucking timeline to be alive, gamer or not
The RAM shortage is only temporary, it will pass. But the popularity of the Steam Deck is opening the floodgates for more mainstream Linux devices.
The RAM shortage is only temporary, it will pass
Just like GPU shortage was temporary... Oh wait.
The shortage was temporary, the price increase was not.
Any reason why it should be different with RAM?
Also the GPU shortage hasn't gone anywhere as shown by the 50xx cards release and with Nvidia saying it will not even release new GPUs in 2026, it's only getting worse.
Exactly my expectation, sadly. The crypto/NFT rush and then the AI rush has shown GPU manufactures, Nvidia especially, that people will still pay for GPUs, even at insane prices. So of course being a publicly held mega-Corp, they will keep the high prices and set it as the new baseline. Same to a lesser degree with AMD.
Ram will follow a similar pattern. Temporary extreme market conditions will create scarcity, prices spike to unheard of levels, desperate consoomers will still buy out what supply they can get, and signal to the companies selling it that the new high prices are actually totally fine.
The days of mid tier GPUs being $200-$350 are long gone. So are the days of 64Gb kits of mid-teir RAM for $200
And no, the market isn't going to adjust in a good way for gamers with devs and studios writing more efficient code that runs high quality graphics on lower end hardware. We will get the dystopia option, no more consumer PC parts, rent a pre-built to use at a huge markup, or you pay for an online subscription to a cloud gaming platform. Either way, it enshitifies.
Shortage yes, price no.
We still had craphole companies talking about Covid supply chain issues in 2025 despite obviously having surplus stock on their products.
I have 128GB of DDR4 RAM that I'll sell for $20k
I got 96gb of regular ddr4 and 12gb of GGDR6X video memory, willing to trade for a single family home.
I had to replace my travel notebook recently and wanted a bit more horsepower, ended up getting a steamdeck OLED because it was half the price of an equivelent laptop.
Time to sell mine! Where can I do that? And if you say Facebook marketplace, that is absolutely a no go.
Haven't used this in a few years but https://swappa.com/listings/steam-deck
When do y'all figure manufacturers will realize we don't want to trade PC gaming for "AI" horseshit?
But your masters do, so you will live without gaming PC. Enjoy subscription streaming gaming from now on.
Fuck that. I'd rather go outside.
50% of the wealth in America is now owned by the top 1%, they can effectively ignore what we want and turn a more reliable profit, that is, of course, until the bubble pops.
Generally speaking, people aren't spending right now. The surface tension on that bubble is almost maxed out. I doubt most of these data centers will be built before the paradigm is forced to shift back to a more decentralized model... I hope....
Yep. Exactly how I learned they were out of stock. :)
I mean, true, but I don’t think the Machine and VR headset are competing with the Deck.