Buyers who were procrastinating about purchasing a Valve gaming handheld are feeling regretful. The Steam Deck OLED has disappeared from the U.S. storefront, with stock levels sporadic elsewhere. Facing component shortages, the manufacturer may be considering a price increase.
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.
Someone who’s not an asshole. Also, if you sold it for cheaper you’d make bank because everyone would buy from you instead of your asshole competitors.
That’s not how capitalism works. What will happen in this case, bigger players that don’t want to lower their prices will run you out of business using a bunch of dirty tactics, bankrupt you twice over, and continue selling shit for as much as they can get away with.
Capitalism might be a good idea on paper, but this naive shit never actually works on practice, every time they build it, instead of self-regulating free market working for people, it devolves into this hell where practically monopolies divide the market and squeese everyone dry
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.
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.
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.
RAM is easier to make and there are way more fabs. It should be better.
Who in their right mind will sell it cheaper than the competitors?
Someone who’s not an asshole. Also, if you sold it for cheaper you’d make bank because everyone would buy from you instead of your asshole competitors.
That’s not how capitalism works. What will happen in this case, bigger players that don’t want to lower their prices will run you out of business using a bunch of dirty tactics, bankrupt you twice over, and continue selling shit for as much as they can get away with.
Capitalism might be a good idea on paper, but this naive shit never actually works on practice, every time they build it, instead of self-regulating free market working for people, it devolves into this hell where practically monopolies divide the market and squeese everyone dry
I never said that was how capitalism worked. Nothing in this comment contradicts anything I said.
Anyone that wants to make sales? The entire concept of a market involves price competition.