Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that’s a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold out.

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    20 hours ago

    What marketing agency wrote this? Dumb fucking idea. No one in the world needs Steam Deck and no company has ever responded to more sales with lower prices. Boycott that shit

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      17 hours ago

      Nobody needs any entertainment, but some people enjoy hobbies like gaming.

      no company has ever responded to more sales with lower prices

      Prices are going up rapidly thanks to AI data centers exploding demand by orders of magnitude more than retail customers. There is no end in sight to the price increases.

      If you want a gaming device, buy it sooner rather than later. That’s all I am saying.

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        12 hours ago

        Is there not a future in which the AI bubble bursts, and we are in a glut of datacentre memory and storage with no buyers?

        There should be a cataclysmic bottoming out of the market that leads to a period of cheap, abundant parts.

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          Is there not a future in which the AI bubble bursts, and we are in a glut of datacentre memory and storage with no buyers?

          There is. Unfortunately, not even the chips on the memory used by data centers is compatible with consumer hardware. They use extremely high performance, expensive HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), we use DDR memory. Unless consumers start getting affordable devices that are compatible with such memory, there is not much hope of buying what has been or is in the process of being made for data centers.

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      14 hours ago

      What is life without entertainment? Do you think all what life is about is to barely make ends meet while making extra profit for the billionaire class? I even got told that I don’t even need healthy food, just be mindful how much I’m eating of the cheap unhealthy stuff, do some intermittent fasting, and eat apples as snack instead of sweets.