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[–] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's not good. There's zero chance they'll just drop a new one before the other stuff is out. Either they can't manufacture them at the current price point any more, or they were caught out by increasing demand, which is likely caused by the current hardware piece increases.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    GPU shortage of 2018

    Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions

    NFT craze

    And now Altman's bullshit. All I want is to tinker with computers, learning about their inner-workings, the science behind them and play games. Why do profit-driven enterprises always have ruin our hobbies? Just so we can produce slop content to make the internet more bloated than it is already? Is it the worth the water depletion and the environmental destruction?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Because hyperscalers can buy multiple orders of magnitude more of anything consumers can buy collectively. And they won't complain, and if their shit breaks they'll just buy 100,000 pallets-worth more. Consumers have reviews, thoughts, drama and will never have the margins hyperscalers can have.

    Thank anti-antitrust, Wall St for this. I'm genuinely depressed at the state of personal computing, I see a future of thin clients and renting compute as a genuinely possible future.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I was just going to buy one of those.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Because they’re releasing a new one?

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  • [–] 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Probably because ram prices have gotten high enough that they cannot price the console at a reasonable price.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    ram prices have gotten high enough that they cannot price the console

    If that was true, then anything that uses RAM would be following a similar theme.

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  • [+] -84 points 9 months ago (9 children)
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    [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Still one of the best pieces of hardware I own. Great little machine.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago*

    This news makes me want to hug my steam deck and tell her shes a pretty girl.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    I think they probably want to use the ram and storage for their new machines, rather than steam decks. It’s probably not the same type, but they could have a limit on how much they can procure total.

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    Every day I regret skipping the OLED a little bit more 😭

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Thank you new AI overlords you have wreaked everything.

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