Until every big tech billionaire is hung out dry, with their data centers burnt to the ground, we will continue to be raped.
>BUT VALVE IS OUR SAVIOR CORPORATION GABE WOULD NEVER DO THIS TO US
seethe Rothschild . You lost the court case to Gabes girth
>>535915580not valves fault. memory prices have gone up 400%. prices for the main processor must have gone up too because it's more expensive to order new supply from the fabs.
WTF I CAN'T BUY A MEME DECK??I'M BEING OPPRESSED!!!1!
>>535915729I can’t wait until ai bubble pops and people start doing cool things with it instead of trying to enslave mankind
>>535915475Can I mod the old one with OLED?
>>535915475I already got mine in 2023Ive dropped it like 4 times too and even once from a really high place and its still going strong. The battery life has always sucked though
>>535915805Keep in mind AI will never fully go away. That genie cannot be put back into the bottle.
>>535915883Its value is in writing ad copy and article slop for retards. So it has value but it's not much.
>>535916183Even if it dies in the public sector, the government will still use it. They can say it is a matter of national security and they will use that to confiscate land and power plants to make for data centers. They have done similar things before in the name of national security before.>"If we don't do XXXXX, the terrorists win."
>>535915580I don't' understand valve shills. They are just like people who defend video game companies. They do not care about you.
>>535915475It's funny how consoles raise their price thinking it will increase sales. Why would I buy a playstation 5 when it's now more expensive than it was a year ago? Same with the steam deck. Just the thought that I'm being screwed over after people got it for cheaper makes me not want to ever buy it.
>>535915475This is what happens when you autistic incels fight against any steam competition. They can do whatever they want
>>535915475Fuck em up, son!
>>535915810Answered my own question:https://www.shadetechnik.com/store/p/decksight-antiglareThat and a battery mod these things look cool and can probably be picked up cheap on ebay for a little less
>>535915580Nigger, have you seen what happened to the prices of hardware, specifically RAM and graphics cards?
>>535915873yeah, battery sucks, but it is what it is, batteries are just not there yet
It says "buy now" for me.
>>535915475Damn thats insane, I got my rog ally x for $900 9 months ago and its like twice as powerful as this
>>535915475>purchasing power of the dollar in free fall>it the businesses that are at fault, grrr!
>>535916961I almost bought my kids a PS5 last year for christmas but realized it was a waste since they both have gaming computers.
>>535916879Because there’s nothing wrong with supporting and buying from a company that creates good products and benefits. Being a shill means you’d eat up everything they make. I have some big critique against Valve which is mostly that they region lock games or remove games because of external pressure like Australian feminist groups. The price of the hardware sucks but it’s virtually impossible to get cheap hardware nowadays as the prices for RAM, SSD and even HDD sky rocketed because of LLMs
RAM is expensive now because of AI kikes, not really much valve can do. Outside of maybe waiting till China starts making it
The real problem with all this is that the powers that be are working toward a future where everybody is on the cloud because personal computers are too expensive. And when you are on the cloud, you have no control over anything anymore. Fuckers like bezos even openly talk about this in podcasts. And i dont believe the cheap chinese ram meme, (((they))) wont let it happen.
>>535915475>out of stock>raise prices for known reason>This is Valve's fault!Excuse me, OP. Please see yourself to the retard corner.
>>535918688valve has not made a new game since half life 2
>>535918647The only reason to use a console over PC is to play 2 player with a guest. There is no game exclusivity except for grand theft auto 6 which isn't even out yet. But that one will probably the only reason to be on a console when it come out. But buying a console for one game ain't worth it.
>>535915883If that were true, then memory and other chips producers would invest massively and the price would come down in a few years. The problem is that those people believe the AI bubble will crash soon.
>>535919671>grand theft auto 6 isn't out yetit literally came out yesterday and no one cares because it's dogshit
>>535920073how bad are we talking?
>>5359154751280 px - is shiiiiet
>>535915475Okay but big tech isn't the reason all computer hardware is in such short supply right now. There is a huge demand for graphics cards and memory because of demand for AI in general, not just demand from a few corporations. Big tech has no interest in RTX 3090's, but they still sell for $1000+ used six years after their release because they are useful for AI. I know because I am trying to buy this stuff myself to use for AI and the market is insane.
>>535915580Faggot retard... Valve can either increase the prices or just not sell steamdecks at all. Same fucking reason you're paying 2x as much now for a new gaming PC compared to pre covid. Mix of inflation caused by insane government spendings that started during covid and never stopped, and hardware being made senselessly more expensive by the push forward to continue bettering a technology nobody except the elite want.
MMMMM WINNING WE'RE WINNING ASSMONGOL!
>>535915475I've heard they're heavy. Even heavier than the switch 2 which is already not comfortable to hold for long periods
>>535915805People are doing cool things with it right now. Also:>enslaving mankind>not cool It's arguably our fastest way to a crazy, lawless, cyberpunk future. I guess the real problem is that we people are too fucking docile these days to do cool shit when they're being actively enslaved. I think if we hit some sort of critical mass for job replacement and there isn't UBI within a year or two of 50%+ unemployment, then we could get some pretty cool shit happening.Realistically how far away are we from picrel?
>>535915580Hey nigger if you’re so pathetic you NEED your little video games on your person at all times you deserve to get ass raped and killing yourself is always an option remember
>>535921310you are 2 year away from open air gulagwhere if you press the wrong button you get euthanized
>what is inflationIts not valve's fault the buying power of our currency has been eroded by the banks fractional reserve lending and supply side shocks caused by the US government starting wars in the middle east.
Steaming Turd Deck now.
>>535921436How many buttons are we talking here?
>>535916961>It's funny how consoles raise their price thinking it will increase sales.Consoles were always subsidized by software sales - at this point, they should be giving them away, like cellphone contracts, in order to sell DLC etc.
>>535915475Is that a psp? What is steam and valve? Are they connected to bitcoins?
>>535921808liking the wrong post, will qualify you as mentally illand you will be vanned to the euthanasia center
>>535915475Thats because divvies are buying it. See>out of stock
>>535915475I desinged my own datacenter. It has 32 gigs of RAM and a AMD processor. Do you guys think I can cash in on this AI craze?
>>535921967It's like streamed PC game shit with a psp style portable option. I can't see the point honestly, with all the legacy emulation and retrogaming platforms out there this new AAA crap does nothing for me, may as well get that old psp man. I'm more excited about the NEO GEO console reissue if anything.
>>535915475When are things supposed to get better?
>>535915580They don't control hardware component prices.
>>535922025This is already so close to what we have now it's fucking insane. I really don't know how people haven't fucking snapped across the board, but then I remember that I somehow have miraculously kept my sanity in check and I think that it's a long way until anything radical actually happens.
>>535915475What the fuck does Trump have to do with anything? Does Trump control world supply chain?
>>535922205>implying the republicans arent trying to fix the economy the democrats ruined with sleepy joe's autopen and open borders and free visas
>>535915475I have the collectors edition of the OLEDand I barely use itStat mad, fags
>>535915475Stop buying it then
>>535915883AI might never go away, but the AI craze will, you can only support the hype with hopes and dreams for so long.
>>535915475Vidya is a pressure release Valve (wow/whoa) for the goyimReduced access to surrogate activities like gaming and sportsball is a good thing if you want globohomo to be thwarted
I bought my 1tb oled a few weeks ago. Feeling smug now. It's an elite piece of kit.
>>535915475Raise the price, raise the price.
Doesn't bode well for the new steam machines. They're going to be 1500$
>>535922293>do nothing>disrupt world trade and start shit for Israel he had 2 choices and of course went for the golem option
>>535915729Micron has built a big facility in Boise, ID to produce ram, but there are cranes everywhere so maybe it's not done.
>>535920636brother it weighs fuck all. Google says 640grams. who said they are heavy? gotta have twigs for arms. To find that heavy lol.
>>535915580They likely can't help the matter. dram and storage prices are dummy right now because the west coast tech elite got AI psychosis from their own inventions and think it's going to save humanity instead of just be a neat useful tool.
>>535920201So bad
>>535915475Anon, 2025 was the last time where you were able to upgrade, now tech pieces will be extremely valuable since the production of these have basically stopped
Don't care, got mine.
>>535916879I don't understand communists. They see the word corporation or company and have a schizo melt down assuming the absolute worse. Even small mom and pop business are considered evil incarnate if they have more than 10 employees.
and it's still out of stock.The whole artificial scarcity thing is really easy to pull off with gamer nerds who buy hardware. They will pay ANYTHING. They will pay 2 grand for a GPU, 1 grand for RAM, they will pay anything.
during COVID quarantine some people were paying $5000 for a GPU
>>535922529Micron no longer makes memory for consumers
>>535922567
>>535922768I'm sure being unable to use the outside world had nothing to do with people wanting computers. You should look at the growth of Steam users during that same period.
>>535915475At that price point you'd be retarded not to get one of the ASUS ROG one's
>>535915729China is starting to flood the market with cheap RAM now so the prices should start dropping
>>535922768I remember watching GPU prices live on youtube.
>>535922529https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-businessThat's going straight into HBM to be put into cards to run LLMs on. It won't touch regular DDR prices whatsoever.
>>535915475imagine spending a thoudans on a shitty handheld cloud service gayming machineNo
>>535923107>https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business“The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments,” said Sumit Sadana, EVP and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology. “Thanks to a passionate community of consumers, the Crucial brand has become synonymous with technical leadership, quality and reliability of leading-edge memory and storage products. We would like to thank our millions of customers, hundreds of partners and all of the Micron team members who have supported the Crucial journey for the last 29 years.”cunt
>>535915729Storage too.
>>535915475when cloud drm started to become the norm, i saw exactly where things were headed, one of the reasons why i don't play vidya anymore (that and i have a career to worry about)
>>535915729>not valves faultThey're part of the problem. Know why? Because they're inflating costs for private PC users so they can shill their gimmick as children's consoles. Grow up and buy deodorant.
>>535915475damn, glad I got mine early. I hope niggers don't steal it
>>535920073it will be dogshit but it got postponed until Christmas
>>535922840If Micron fulfills the demand of corporations, then they won't need to tap into the consumer market and prices consequently go down.
>>535919813This. It's why they never bothered to expand production. They know it's a short-lived gold rush.LLMs will never become intelligent either. They're all doomed to collapse.
No refunds, murrikeks
>>535921310No they aren’t. The 90s had cooler applications of technology than this shit. The only saving grace is Google somehow not being shit for once. Gemma is based as hell
>>535919001I honestly knew they would step upBut they need the chips for AI too lol.Its still expensive now.
>>535915729>not valves fault.
>>535915475How are you getting raped dipshit? Can't afford your tech toys means you've been raped. Or you just dont get the toy you wanted as cheap as you think it should be. Cry me a river.
>>535915475>$800 for 500gbThat's only enough space for 2 games. This has expandable storage, right?
>>535915475I will continue to not play vidya. Easy win.
>>535922308>every economical state from 2025 is objectively worse than 2024>early Biden presidency waa lls at least recovering from Trump's COVID fuckuphttps://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-recovery-from-covid-19-in-international-comparison/https://www.aei.org/articles/americas-exceptional-post-pandemic-economy/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/10-metrics-reveal-the-american-recovery-is-best-in-the-world-and-still-improving/Numbers don't lie.Your brain is cooked.
>>535915580Memory pricesTariffsHeavy metal blockadesBlame Trumpoids and tech billionaires funding the AI bubble
>>535915805The entire point of capitalism, the industrial revolution, overpopulation, hell the entirety of modern history was to create the conditions for AI to be brought back my friend..Enjoy the culling, it's over for the masses. Its time for the elite to sit back and enjoy the ride.
>>535925161Open AI back in 2018-2022 was actually decent company that built most of the open source framework used by local LLMs to this day. A collection of some of the best minds in machine learning, and a boon for tech.Open AI today is Altman's dystopian life goals wrapped into a single degenerate overleveraged corporation.
