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And somehow weed street prices

Don't worry, trump controls the fed now. He'll make sure the dollar becomes worthless, and everyone will be billionaires!

I'm sure the peeps at Valve are getting paid very well.

Don't forget the body count!

My laptop is worth more than i bought it 3 years ago. Strange world.

Turns out I should have bought an OLED even though I already had the first version...

I was an OG pre-order and this price point would have been a big fat hell nah from me. Even more true 4+ years later.

Same, and I too bought the LED and OLED. I sold my LED for $420 (with the new 1 TB SSD from the OLED I bought, added back grips and the original dock) to my friend cause he wanted to get one for his brother.

Thanks OpenAI*

https://swappa.com/listings/steam-deck

Frankly, I'd recommend just buying a Mint condition Steam Deck from Swappa or eBay. And I'd recommend doing it soon BEFORE these sellers catch on to the price increase.

Likewise, I’ve been unemployed for 18 months and have watched as several things I would really like to get have become too expensive anyway.

Not if everyone else goes up too

I mean, it was also popular because it was relatively open in a field of closed handhelds. You could play, basically, whatever you wanted on it. Price was a factor as well... but it was never cheap. Just less expensive than other options.

I definitely wouldn't have gotten one if it was more than the $350 I paid. Although after I got one I would have considered paying more.

Noooo way would I pay $750+

There's better handhelds out there now, but they're more expensive. The Lenovo legion go 2 is supposed to be good if you install bazzite or steam os on it but the top end models are like £2000

For real. Doesn’t this just push people toward some of the cooler Lenovos, etc?

At this stage, the price hike of the steam deck is probably more about making the price of the upcoming Steam Box and VR headset look like an easier pill to swallow, and not about actually needing to raise the price of the steam deck.

Nah. It's all relative. If everything goes up accordingly, then steamdeck will remain a good buy.

Yeah, and they're probably not making much profit on it. The cost of components is ludicrous.

They're kind of fucked with the steam machine & frame. Unless they can source cheap components they'll probably have to price the things so high it pretty much ensures these products are DOA. I dunno, maybe they'll keep delaying release.

Edit - I just checked, the prices have not gone up in my region, at least not yet. And they're actually available again.

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The main argument against the idea that the steep price increases in PC consumer hardware will lead to a Future of "everything runs on the cloud" and "the end of personal computing" is that the makers of software that can't run on the cloud and remain decent (most notably game makers, as proven by the totally failure of things like Stadia) will just target their software the the hardware that's expected that people will have in 2 - 5 times, which as far as we can tell is "the same hardware as people have now" because only a small fraction of gamers can afford to upgrade.

If people can't afford upgrading their PCs, software makers can't afford to demand upgraded computers.

I would even say that the trend towards that predates this shit - in the last decade or so it's pretty much only AAA games who have been pushing the envelope in terms of hardware whilst increasingly Indie games are targetting lower end hardware.

That's also good for Linux because, lo-and-behold, Microsoft is one of those software makers who with spectacularly bad timming just put out a main product that demands upgraded computers exactly when it's way harder for people to afford upgrading their computers.

developpers might look at making games playable on less powerful hardware

Yes, please let this lead to devs focusing on efficiency again. I don't need real time physics simulations and "lifelike" facial animations that still haven't found a way out of the uncanny valley after like two decades.

I want snappy load times, download and install sizes in the tens of gigabytes, not hundreds, consistent frame rates even when there's a lot going on on the screen. I have more VRAM than God, yet I still get stuttering in some games on high graphics settings. It's pathetic.

Food is already going to go up in the future even if they opened the Straits today. Crops have sowing and harvesting seasons. Miss the sowing season because of a lack of fertiliser and you've no harvest. And those windows for sowing are fixed and known, you can't just go "oh I've got fertiliser now so I can go plant my crops." If you're out of the sowing window you can plant the seed but it's not going to germinate and grow. And for a lot of crops we're in the middle of that season right now.

Or firebombs and guillotines...