is it dead?
>>107786293Nah, why should it be ?It's the freedomThe Liberation from microslop sloperating AI system.
>>107786293Yes, at least until RAM prices become sane for the average consumer again>>107786356You can always install GNU/linux on a non-cube pc
They should probably stall mass production for a while, otherwise they'll need to charge $1200 so they're not selling at a loss. Especially because if they sell at a loss the boxes would all go to non game buying corporations because they'd be the cheapest 16GB DDR5 and 8GB GDDR6 PC.
>>107786293Am I retarded, or don't these companies lock in their orders like many, many months in advance?
They'll be competing against manufacturers facing the exact same pressures, so no. But those unprecedented sales they could have in different times will no longer pan out. Everyone will at least try to outlast the shortages with their current systems, and every manufacturer will be moving substantially fewer units. Not only has RAM skyrocketed, the economy is shit everywhere and inflation hurt everyone in recent times. This is the perfect stoem in a tech winter.
>>107786293yes unless Gabe secured the long term deals beforehand
>>107786293It was already dead as a concept before Sam Altman decided to ruin everything.
>>107786293No it's the next gaming PC you can stream games to play on the living room TV if you don't have one already or the next emulation box, fuck Microsoft and sony their days are up in the gaming space,only nintendo will live from it's exclusives
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>>107788363I'm talk about prior to the recent news about pricing from November (or earlier) and onwards.