All so Sam fucking Altman can cut off supply to his competition, just trying to get even more wealthy... Scumbag...

The only good side is that devs will have to optimize and do more with less or focus less on graphics.

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.

The shortage was temporary, the price increase was not.

I think with the lead time required for new factories that catching up may be super slow. I'm inclined to lead towards the former still even with new fabs coming.

Thanks for that! I thought they had gone out of business but ok.

I sell things on ebay, but I am always reluctant to sell electronics there. Seems like it could bite me in the ass and shipping would be pretty rough.

Fuck that. I'd rather go outside.

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.

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....

...of course, until the bubble pops guillotine appears.

FTFY.

Deck is 4 years old at this point. They shouldn't honestly be making anymore, and I don't think AMD would even be doing production runs of that SoC a ymore anyway. These devices aren't meant to be produced into perpetuity, and especially not when the same company paying to produce them has THREE new hardware devices coming out any day. It's the last thing they'd care about.

So if course they're going out of stock. The Deck was never meant to be a generational console like a Switch. It's simple PC hardware meant to span the 3-5 year gap, same as a laptop. Again, this is year 4, and they have OTHER new hardware coming out.

This tells you a few things:

1. They don't want Deck in stock for price comparison to new hardware if it's going to be more expensive
2. They really want to motivate sales of Frame as a Deck alternative
3. They want another product pivot to follow up later, which will probably be Deck 2 or whatever

Author of this article is just in the wrong neighborhood.

They cray. There is no new official steam deck yet. Valve would have made that announcement a while ago.

oh sorry I forgot I was full of shit