Dystopian fucking timeline to be alive, gamer or not
Me with the OLED and the original:
This is a weird generation of consoles. If you’re an early adopter, you probably saved money. That sorta thing never happens.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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If we’d had boycott powers like that, we would already use it to prevent this bullshit in the first place. We weren’t able to prevent shit that nobody wants, imagine trying to boycott shit that some people actually want to have.
Yes but most of the Steam Deck owners are probably not into games with really high requirements.
And, for those who are, it’s great to be able to play demanding games with cheap (for now) hardware.
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.
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
Anyone that wants to make sales? The entire concept of a market involves price competition.
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.
why would there be a price increase after the release of the new one coming up? that makes no goddamn sense how about that for news reporting
the new one
The new one?
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.
Please don’t profiteer on the back of AI
Your comment kinda sounds like an accusation. If they don’t jack up the price, it’s not profiteering. Hell, even if they sell at the price they paid, it still doesn’t meet the definition.
But, I agree with the sentiment. Scalpers should be drawn and quartered, at minimum!
That’s not what profiteering means
“the practice of making or seeking to make an excessive or unfair profit,”. ?
I have two. I am reluctant to sell the one I never use because selling things is barely worth the hassle. If I made back what I paid I would be happy. If the market is worth it now, I really can’t control or be held responsible for what caused it.
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.
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Well my pc plays great a lot of older games up to 2020. My backlog is big and I bet there is a huge number of games which are unknown to me, that I will enjoy if I discover them. My rx6600 may struggle with 1440p sometimes, but I can always go back to 1080p. Almost all new games are trash anyway, so not a huge loss.
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…
I also hope so
Hopefully they only increase prices in the US. I don’t want customers from other countries like in the EU make up for Trumps stupid tariffs.
The AI-over-investment-sparked memory shortage is what’s causing the problem, not Republican tariffs.
