>you WILL pay outrageous prices for mediocre technologySo now that gaming as a hobby is going down the shitter, what do we do now? Or better yet how do we fix this?
>>537614349>512 GBWhat's that like 2 or 3 games you'll be able to have on there?
China is gradually reducing the export of rare earth minerals so every tech not sold by China will gradually increase in price.
>>537614349I just wear a a leather wrist guard i made and stamped DTF in the middle of it. I go to bars minding my own business watching YouTube or something and bitches approach me. Its a better hobby than gaming. But im white so its like easy mode and the women are generally boring after a day or two.
>le video game hardware and accessories are expensive now because they just are okay poorfagGoycattle just go along with ever9
There are 6million good goy games to emulate
>>537614507Ruskie anon knows. It's actually funny that people are surprised by this. Valve had been shit for years anyway
>>537614693going to try this now lol
>>537614507and the EU is just going to ban stuff coming from Chinadamn this is going to suck
>>537614349>pays money to play game on TV screen instead of computer screen>doesn't just run stream computer to TVRetard tax.
>>537614349>you WILL pay outrageous prices for mediocre technologywho cares, if you can write it off as professional expense and it happens only once every 5-8 years
>>537614938Yeah if they ask about it just tell em its just a subtle advertisement they can take or leave it. Then get into some funny shit your watching on youtube or whatever.
>>537615028It was clear right from the start that EU is completely vassalized by US.Right after NATO blew up nord streams and nobody did shit.Or even earlier when instead of implementing Minsk agreements EU helped to pump weapons to ukraine and they knew it will provoke Russian response.
>>537615028Don;t worry my fellow goyim we'll repurpose some of those datacenters into cloud computing so you can rent them for 9.99/day + taxes + service fees
>>537614349Literally who is going to buy a gabecube lmao
They want to kill home computing so that instead of having your own PC, you will remote into one of their servers. They are going to make components so incredibly expensive you won't believe it.
Geeze, guess I need one of these for my small business so I can check my emails.
Just bought mine. Stop being poor and write it off on your taxes. Thanks for reminding me it was available OP.
>>537615199yeah this is what i think they're having wet dreams about
i voted for this
>>537614349>poors hiding the fact that they can't afford the latest Gaben toy>MUH PS5insufferable. I hear drug habits are making a comeback, maybe you should take up that hobby instead. A good hit of anything will set you back 20-30 bucks.
>>537614349Just get PS5 and Super Switch
>>537615457If you're not a poorfag then you might as well buy or build an actual high quality PC because the specs of the MemeMachine are dog shit.
>>537614349LMAO remember when valve fanboys were coping about a $600 price tag?Kek delusional. $1000 bare minimum.
>>537614507Xbox's CEO says the AI build-out has massively increased prices for all gaming hardware. Rare earths aren't used in GPU or CPU production. Nice try though.
>>537614349>what do we do now?
>>537616126they are nigger why don't you ask your friend how rare earths are used in production of these chips
>>537616126pretty sure it's RAM and Wolfram (whatever the fuck Americans call that element, I forgot)
>over 1000$>for something as weak as, potentially even weaker than a console
>>537615967Back when it was first announcec, it was likely going to be like 700 bucks. RAM and regular memory have 3x since then and gpus have 2x.But yeah the people that thought it was going to be anywhere below 700 were delusional as fuck.
>>537616405If prices stay the same, there's no way consoles stay under 1000 bucks unless they increase game prices to 100 and sell the console at a much bigger loss than now.
As much as people shat on it on release, the switch 2 is going to become pretty much the only affordable console for a long time. Nintendo got so fucking lucky with timing and locked in their supply contracts before component prices got retarded.
>>537614349>8gb of VRAM for a device going into 2027+lol
>>537616126>AI says it dindu nuffinlmao
>>537614349the 2TB option is a good deal mongols
Gaben using only the finest specimens to model his new hardware.
>>537614349Same as always, download old roms and emulators on a shitty machine.
>>537614349Are you not enjoying the new Skyrim game?
>>537620155https://youtu.be/Rf7ROU2_8UA
>>537616126they are used in production, but it's not the cause of the price increase. like you said it's the AI shit that drove up all the prices by buying out all available wafer allocation at the chip fabs. this means companies like valve cannot secure cheap RAM or chips for the CPU/GPU. same reason why DDR5 is now 400% more expensive. also chinese restriction rare-earths is only for military applications. they still export for normie use, but it is carefully monitored (you have to show exactly how it used or they won't sell you it) .
>>537614349I really don't see who's the demographic for this, just like the original Steam Machine this will be a failure, and it's well deserved, Valve is a garbage company
>>537620376Someone lost all his money on the counterstrike cosmetics market
>>537620457No, Valve is a dog shit company that has a retard fan base that believe the mythology they've created about the company, if it wasn't for Australia then Valve still wouldn't be offering refunds on Steam, Valve had to be sued by the ACCC for a basic consumer right like refunds, which they fought against in the High Court and lost, then appealed which was denied
>>537615028No. They tax the shit out of it.
>>537614456as long as you don't play the newest faggotslop, 500g's can go a long way.if you need to play Red Dead, well, you're going to have to make some cuts to the team.
>>537614456It has an SD slot.
>>537614349Unless those can be hacked, I'm not buying any new consoles.I still have my Switch with dozens of games that I've barely touched.Storage prices are ridiculous too. I loaded up on a few 128 and 256GB a few years ago. Prices have tripled since, I'd only be able to buy 32GB at the same prices.
>>537614507>>537615028Many leaders will say they're falling behind, but won't propose allowing mining minerals in their countries.
>>537614349Well I could always play some cards or rpg with the guys. If I can't afford a digital game, I could play an analogic game. If you have the right mindset you will still have fun and not be exploited by the kikes.
>>537614507No it's because of Ai.
>$1400>2TB memory>no keyboard>no mouse>8gb card weaker than a 3060I genuinely don't understand who this is for. You could buy a prebuilt right now that is substantially better for less money.
>>537614456About 20 games on average. Fewer if all bloated triple A slop.
>>537621181Valvedrones
>>537614349You can't. This wasn't because leftists ruined video games. Because you never grew out of video games leftists were given a way in. The same way they always get in. Through the journalists.Computer sucks.Just get over it.
>>537620627its amazing how people memory hole all the bad shit valve has done half of the shit gamers love to complain about today valve is directly responsible for popularizing
>>537614349>So now that gaming as a hobby is going down the shitterThat happened a long time when women started working in the industry.
>>537614349I'm more surprised the PC Masterrace still makes a big deal out of graphics. They've been whining endlessly for the last few years over GPU prices.
>>537616511Don't worry they will keep consoles cheap by turning them into ad-based cloud streaming services. Say "McDonald's" to continue playing
>>537621679Ironically enough modern graphics are objectively fuglier than older games while also running much, much worse.
>>537614349>Trillion dollars for the AI bubble? Yes daddy Elon!>$1000 for consumer electronics? EW NO THANKS
>>537620922>It has an SD slotDoes that mean you can basically just fill up like 30 SD cards with your library and swap them out if needed? That is pretty awesome DESU
>>537622826>That is pretty awesome DESUUhhhh... I DID NOT SAY DESU... wtf
>>537620804That might be true, but you also don’t need a $1000 steam machine just to run the classics
Phil, as well as most of /pol/, is gonna get one.
>>537623046>Phil, as well as most of /pol/, is gonna get oneI will never give up my keyboard and mouse desktop setup
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."--1 Corinthians 13:11
>>537623214>keyboard and mouse I don't even use that outside of RTS.
>>537614349My build using 2nd tier parts from 2018 still runs new games and all the games I want to play. I really don't see the problem
>>537614507Glad I bought almost everything i need for tech for the next 10 years
>>537620804my dcs world install alone is over a tb
>>537614349How about you stop having your life revolve around fucking pixels?Im posting this from the shitter right now then im going to go finish wiring this new headset in my car (since using a phone without hands-free is fucking illegal in this commie dystopia).Touch grass.Go snowboarding.Get laid.Build a model rocket with the kids.Stop wasting your life in a fantasy world and join us.
>>537623691No. For some of us, unfortunately, vidya is the only thing we have in life.
>>537614349>what do we do now?Invest in AI>Or better yet how do we fix this?You don't, AI will be the future.You invest in AI, and then reap the rewards of owning the stock of the AI future. Nvidia and spaceX will be worth double digit trillions in the next 15 years.
>>537614349I sold like 10 skins in CS2 and bought it, the skins were all shit I got for free gambling on matches. I imagine most people who have been on Steam for any length of time will be able to get this and the Steamdeck effectively for free if they want it.
>>537620804this is correct. only retards care about these 200gb moviegames
>>537622860You are a newbabby
You don't need good hardware to game though.And we already have decades of good games to play. Most of which can run on a modern smartphone chip.
>>537615123anon fucks.
>>537614456You literally won't be able to install GTA VI on that thing.
Personally I stopped giving a fuck about vidya, particularly AAA shit a long while back. Especially since it's mostly wokeslop made by jeets and women.
My basic ass pc i built is only a regular 3.8 gighertz 3800x and i just play classic games on emulators anyway, no need for these absolute pozzed political diatribic leftist movie games masquerading as "entertainment"
>>537615123wonder how theyll react to the wedding ring on tgw other hand
>>537614349its your fault for using goyAI
>>537614349Reading books, completely free with an ereader or available for a small fee paid one time. They fear educated chuds the most. Games are goyslop anyway.
>>537614456it has an micro sd card slot
>>537621075Nobody is stopping you from mining it but the shit is so fucking cheap thanks to chinks that nobody wants to even explore it. Iron and coal are more abundant and valuable.
>>537621181Apparently the R&D went to OS level optimizations that simplify processes and reduce memory consumption.So performance could be somewhat better than equivalent specs on another OS.
plasma beingradiant matterthe lifeblood of the universe
>>537614349>8GB GDDR5That's actually fucking pathetic. For that price there should be AT LEAST 12GB GDDR6. The fucking RTX2060 in my PC has 6GB and that card is FUCKING OLD.
>>537625520Steam Machine is only 6" by 6", it's impressive they fit that much hardware in a case that tiny.
>>537625630I misread and the box actually is using GDDR6 but 8 GB is on the low end of what you need to game in 4k which is what they're going to claim this box can do.
It says it can use the PS5 controller so I'm getting the 2 TB one and getting a dedicated monitor. I'm getting back into gaming.
>>537625520I still have my RTX 970 with 3.5GB
>>537614349>less capable than my 7 year old PC>more expensive its fucking over for PC gaming
>>537625755>3.5Based. My work pc still has a 1050ti with 4gb.
Wow lots of negative comments here but remember coding to the metal with Linux gives you a 200% boost in graphics and processing this thing is gonna SHOCK the hater Gaben always wins
Fuck microsoft lolI signed up>HURR DURR MUH 1Kjust how poor are you I only make 30k a year and I'm getting it lmao
>>537625804It's unironically cheaper to just buy a PS5 now, but I just don't care about Sony's mainline games and anything good for consoles that aren't Nintendo gets put on Steam anyway.
>>537625868I call BS. You're still going to be playing the same unoptimized games on that Steam Machine as you would on your PC.Unless they're able to passively optimize the newest UE5 games, passively, as they are installed on the device you're gonna be playing in 1440p.Prove me wrong.
>>537625891>Consoomers joyfully admits he is to blame as well for the current state of the tech market, it's not only because of AIWhen will be the days you spineless cucks will get beheaded?
Restraining gentiles from the circus will make them wake up eventually, which is good.We need more stochastic terrorism.
>>537625868Linux has no conception of motherboards; all motherboards now extant literally laser in tiny little boxes where Linux can "live" and pretends it's king; meanwhile more than 75% of the computing takes place in the firmware of other chip-groups that never talk to Linux because it is retarded.
>>537623690jesus christ m8... is it really worth a whole T?
>>537624575GTA is literally created for playstation5 and first ps5 has 400gb storage
>>537625704I'm just a casual player, I like to play some newer games but I don't mind lowering the graphics to play them, so for me this thing would be fine. Love how small it is. I'd also use it as my personal computer since I want to get away from Windows anyway.
>>537626029Flight simulators have always been a special brand of autist
>>537614349I just wont buySorry I know you need people like me to buy this slop en-masse to prop up this crumbling capitalism but I just wont do it ok? Sorry!!!
>>537614349>My 512 GB Virtual Ram pawn after he finds out video game achievements aren't academic awards.
>>537623691Wow you sound like the kind of insufferable faggot that has friends.>behead all normies
>>537623957>>537623691>>537626308it's because you white cucks are a race of spineless cowards who never fought back and folded yourselves over to the pedo jewish elites and misandrist femalesI swear, if a revolution broke you'd either condemn the revolution instead of at least hiding as the sorry eunuchs you are
>>537614349Does any sportsball become unplayable because the new balls are overengineered and overpriced?Stop buying new shit and the whole house of cards collapses and you actually have a real hobby. Right now your gaming hobby is nothing more than free marketing for slop.
Lol, west cant build shit
16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAMSomething about this line made me think the system was some strange combination of two different types of RAM being used before I realized one was the video card
>>537614349If they released the Gabecube back in 2020 in the middle of the COVID lockdowns they might have had a chance but even in this current market this device is already old and gay. It's just another niche Valve product that only hardcore Linux enthusiasts will find some value.
>>537625891Because not all of us live with our parents
>>537626953Trying to market hardware to Linux enthusiasts is like selling dildos to trannies. Yeah you can make your rent money, but do you really want to do it?
>>537627078There are only two types of Linux enthusiasts; the ones who are forced to use Linux due to their piece of shit rust bucket obsolete computers and the ones who think they are winning against Microslop and Trapple for installing Linux in their multi thousand dollar gayming computers to play their 50 US dollar goyslop that they bought on Steam.I leave the Steam Deck players outside of the equation because that's actually a decent Nintendo piracy mobile device and most of them don't give a shit about Linux anyways.
>>537614349You vill own no games and you vill pay geforce now and xbox game pass
>>537614349I can't believe I bought an RTX4090 nearly 4 fucking years ago for the same amount as a 16gb piece of shit in 2026.
>>537614349I’m paying for nvidia GeForce now for cloud gaming only CA$90/year
>>537628627yeah, because you are a jeet and your brain is not capable of comprehending the need for low-latency. you already experience the entire world in 200ms ping. we've seen it in the thousands of webm's. go home btw
>>537622826>We're going back to memory cards...for PC gamesSure, sounds very 2026-2027 to me.
>>537614507Huh. It's almost like it wasn't such a bonerific idea to rely on China so heavily for all our tech.
>>537628627>CA$90/yearThat's the price of a half decent mid range Ryzen CPU, don't give away your money to game streaming services, if that shit stops existing today then you lost all your shit, fuck, even a second hand laptop from 5 years ago has more value in the long term.>>537628677You roasted him harder than a high power line in New Delhi. kek
have benchmarks been released with the steam machine vs various PC setup's or not. it's still too expensive but my younger brother's PC's CPU is too old to run anything new thanks the TPM gay shit
>>537629041yeah, gaymers nexus vid has more benchmarks vs comparable pc components than you can eat
>>537614693>Ladies, you are looking good goodnight! >And walk away
>>537628990exactly my point. it suddenly made sense to me why the cloud gaming bullshit has any kind of market at all. Notice how few jeets play elden ring, for example.
>>537629235thank's. ill go look it up later. all I saw was some shit about it being 3 times more powerful than the steamdeck. I want to know how it compares to different GPU's with a cheap gaming cpu DDR5 16GB RAM type shit. last time I priced a decent cheap PC it was about $1800-$2000AUD and I wasn't including a PSU since I put a new one in my brothers 18 months ago
>>537616126>Rare earths aren't used in GPU or CPU productiongallium, germanium, silicone all come from china. Those are used to make transistors.
>>537629041Who said that the TPM is embedded on the CPU? You can buy USB TPM keys for dirt cheap from many websites, also you can install WIndows 11 without being forced to use TPM, though on that case, depending on his hardware I would prefer Windows 10 LTSC, or Linux if he's OK with tinkering for hours just to make a functional setup for his needs.Anyways, as long as his current computer has DDR4 RAM that he can reuse, I'd better recommend getting a cheap'o 100USD Ryzen 5 3600G and a new motherboard that has TPM support out of the box, it would be a 200 USD upgrade at most.
>>537614349>what do we do nowKeep playing the old games I was already playing. The only new game I bought was Gothic because I love eurojank other than that might run through chrono trigger or link to the past randomizer again
>>537614349>you have entered the console financing erafunny as fuck that the goyphone pipeline was on the gravy train from the gate only because you had no other options if you wanted to keep using facebooknotice how the things that solely men want are cheaper until women get involved - suddenly cost doesn’t matter and you can just finance the whole thingphones hit $1,000 first because women are addicted to status and social media, an extra $65 a month on their phone bill is nothing compared to mogging other women for 8 monthsTLDR: this invisible hand unironically drives women into male spaces in order to sell more bullshit - look at the gym scene
>>537614349>you willNo I won't....why would I buy any fucking console?
>>537614349How to fix it? Learn how to make games and start putting together a good game that you like with a team of friends.That's the only actual way to change this. Stop supporting shit, make better shit. It's not hard to learn. It's hard to get good at it but it's easy to learn so just go make better shit.
>>537625630The last thing I'd give a shit about is the volume. It's a fucking desktop.
>>537614349>gaming as a hobby Playing a game isn't a hobby. It's playing a game. Hobbies are creative interests.>What do we do now?Grow up and get a real hobby.
>>537629657That's true, we all know that gaymertard girl who spends copious amounts of money in overkill PC peripherals just because they are "cute" despite they don't play games or just play Fortshite and League of Losers.
>>537614349Cloud gaming is the next move, as AI devours hardware and companies try to suck AI companies cock as much as they can cloud services will see a boom in subscriptions.At 39€/mo + internet connection you can play with top tier rigs from your ipad.If china doesn’t save pc gaming then invest into cloud services
>>537629357>Notice how few jeets play elden ring, for example.Or anything that requires quick reflexes and to make split second decisions for that matter, anyways, if playing in the cloud makes them stay away from the games that I play then it's a net positive.
>>537614349>nowwhere have you been for the last 10 years
>>537627008>We don't live with our parents>WAAAAAH THE CONSOLE WAAAAAH>Ignores bills, local taxes, actual adult things etcUh huh
>>537614349Retro gaming is coming back with a vengeance. Loads and loads of great games that have been made in the past that most people have never played.
>>537617212These are his clones.
>>537614349Gaming is part of the problem
>>537630070> Hobbies are creative interests.Like modding games.
>>537630070Other hobbies are getting expensive as wellMy Jiu Jitsu monthly fees increased just because of AI
>>537631644My Krav Maga training remained free of charge.
>>537631719>Krav Magathe only art that specializes in grappling women and children
>>537615202sensiblechuckle.gif
>>537614349Gaming used to be just white nerds and japs once jews women niggers spics and jeets came in its all gone downhill
>>537631552Part of what problem
lmaoing at you retards who didn't build on timeNow we have people saying you should buy consoles because they're cheaper when it used to be the other way around
>>537614349>So now that gaming as a hobby is going down the shitter>NOWlol. lmao.
Steamdrones will defend this while being too dumb to build their own PC, too busy sucking off gaben
If you cant afford it, dont buy it.Your poverty makes me sick.
>>537614349Good outside.Touch grass.Garden.Get a dog and go for walks.Skateboard.Bike.Get into auto mechanics, eventually build a go kart or an rebuild an old 80s Ferrari.But you'll probably have to get a second job to pay rent so you'll have no time for these things.
>>537632279It's just paying for the brand, not the product, with those $1000+ you can build a solid console killer PC, even an actually decent PC if you're not afraid of buying second hand high end parts from a few years ago.
>>537632279>Throws money at the same sociopaths that wants him deathStop being poor lulz!>>537632551each and every thing you listed will price out men or will be considered a punishable offense like in the cUcKMen aren't safe anymore, not even if they watch fucking paint dryAnd you know why? You deserve it for being so cucked about it
>>537621871And when prices eventually come down by 2030, the ads will remainunless you pay extra to remove them>honk
>>537614349>>537631958Go to steam store page. Click on hardware/steambox. See nothing but LGBTDEI+ marketing videos..........Nope. Not for me.
>>537614349>now that gaming as a hobby is going down the shitter,lol, dude, gaming was destroyed after gamergate. they literally warned you. let those fuckers that already destroyed it suck on this.
I'm getting into RCs with my kids and it's a blast. I only have daughters but when I take my truck to the park if there's any boys there they come hang out and watch, and I let them try it on lower speeds. It's awesome. Best part is the prices are totally unaffected by all this retarded shit going on in the world today. I'd rather drop $1000 on the RC than spend a penny on computer shit anymore. For what? The games today are absolute dog shit anyway. Fuck it. Get back outside engaging with people and breathing fresh air in the sunshine. It's good for you.
>>537616393>WolframTungsten. Not a rare earth element.>>537629415None of those are rare earth elements. And it's silicon, retard. Literally the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust.Where they DO get used in semiconductor production are some of the wafer polishing agents, lasers, and tool coatings. And the lasers, magnets, shit like that in the fab equipment.
>>537626029>>537626103I could see it. Flight sims are pretty good especially if you have the LARP equipment.
>>537614349I’ll buy one when my computer dies. Fuck windows and I only use my computer to play games anyways.
>>537632978RC cars are the real shit, I had some as a child, though they were electric so I charged the battery for 8 hours to have a solid hour of hardcore backyard off road action, I always dreamed about buying a fuel RC car but they were expensive as fuck and when I got old enough to make my own money I ended up building a PC since that was the hot shit of the moment.
Gaming isn’t a hobby it’s a past time and unless you are a woman you should have hobbies. Gaming is fucking ridiculous, like a chicken pecking a button for feed but this is worse because you’re a human nd you’re only do it for pixels and noise. I hope they price you guys out of loserdom and force you to touch grass before you’re 40 kek
>>537614349>Be Valve>Make amazing games for a few years>Stop making those and decide to sit in an air conditioned room, raking in cash from Steam, and just make meme hardware from time to time that nobody buys
>>537614349Graphics don't actually need to improve every year. There are great games made every day, and over 40 years of timeless games available to play.
>>537633534>loserdomthis is the problem you nigger ape, men used videogame as an escapism from their shitty livesBecause if you aren't a 6ft, 6 pack and 6f figures aryan Chad you will pretty much struggle in every aspect in life, not only in dating, and that's the best case scenario
>>537614693>leather wrist guard stamped DTFThat just sounds incredibly homosexual
I have a cheap ass Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse on my Xbox and I absolutely wreck PCfags on crossplayAll for under 600 freedom credits
>>537633613Best game i’ve played this year is Gothic (2001) with its terrible graphics, lmao.
>>537633534>like a chicken pecking a button for feedFunny because I've got some chicks and I'd rather watch them play around rather than waste time on videa gaymes. Something about hitting 30YO instantly made me realize games and anime were a colossal waste of time.
>99% of the people buying modern vidya garbage have never played Chrono Trigger, Mario 3, or Donkey Kong Country
>>537633631>I wasn’t born perfect so I’m going to give upKekEver think that perhaps your escapism is both a response AND major source of having a shitty life? Instead of going to the gym, going for a run, socializing, improving your CV and planning for the future you stare at pixels for double-digit hours per day.Yeah yeah life’s hard and nothing you do will help your lot in life, I get it, save your breath. Those excuses might work on yourself but us big boys see right through your transparent defense mechanisms.
>>537628990If I want to buy the rig I want I need to drop 1000 on the graphics driver alone and I might be working remotely soon so having a portable laptop helps. 90 cad is nothing. If I want a 16gb GPU for AI hobbies projects I’ll just rent it>>537628677You know eldenring employs jeets right? And it’s a dead game by now, can barely find people to invader. Formsoft has also gone out of their way to make mindless slop like nightreighn to be as addictive as possible while having rng elements.
>>537632978You’re absolutely right.
I have a more powerful laptop than this but im going to be tempted if the build quality is really good because I want some hardware that lasts I've heard motherboards arent as reliable as they used to be
>>537629900That’s going to be possible with AI very soon. Give it three years. Some guy already got it to clone age of empires
>>537614349https://youtu.be/g-2Didi1bnk
>>537633829>going to the gymGoing to the gym won't improve the face or make you white, dumbass>gong for a runFor what? To live longer in this dystopian hell?>socializing Oh because we haven't tried many times before without success, and also this world hates us and sidelines us to prop up females>improve your CV goyimWork for the same elites and women who want to castrate all men and import niggers?Nice try Rajesh
>>537614693No. Gay bars maybe. Maybe.
>>537614349The reason why the price is high is simply that the demand is high. If someone can make a better product for the same or cheaper production cost, then they will out-earn Valve.
>>537615202>who is going to buyIt's aimed at steam deck only sort of owners or people on laptops etc. As in that whole lower to low mid tier market that steam knows is out there due to the steam hardware survey. The same survey that shows over 50 percent are playing at 1080p. It isn't even remotely aimed at anyone who already built or plans to build their own gaming system. How do people not understand the concept of two different markets and customers? It's like how my home town has a Porsche dealership a few blocks from a Mazda dealership. Wow... What Porsche buyer is going to stop on their way to buy a 911 and buy an Mazda CX5? Oh wait, it's not the same damn customer base.....It's not Steam's fault AI corp whores and Trump's tariffs have absolutely fisted every PC user these last few years when it comes to hardware price increases
>>537614349It's automatically ewaste because you can't install more than 16GB ram. That's the baseline for running W11 with full bloat. 24GB is barely enough to run one virtual machine on the side. DDR5 is fast but terrible on the basis of value. I'd go back to DDR4/DDR3 before spending money to have any kind of build <32GB ram.
>>537634398>baseline for running W11It's not running windows..
>>537614349>Or better yet how do we fix this?do everything humanly possible to empower china, including letting them seize taiwan
>>537634289>demand is highAre the people demanding overpriced bricks in the room with us?
>>537614507Not entirely true.Australia is pumping out rare earth metals currently, we have a signed agreement with Malaysia who refine them. Lynas group.Rare Earths aren’t the problem they were.
>>537614349Show me an equivalent with a +5-10% profit margin that's cheaper. I'll wait. This is reasonable for not selling at a loss.
>>537634646How do Gaben's greasy tits taste like?Like lard? And are you enjoying it?Oh my Science! Prepare your anus, anon!
>>537634498Are you telling me they want to be undercut by competitors?
>>537614349My 3 year old PC didn't go down in value, that was one year ago. It's probably more worth now.
>>537633534>like a chicken pecking a button for feed but this is worse because you’re a human nd you’re only do it for pixels and noise.That's rich coming from someone using a computer to post a comment on the internet, modern gaming is a lame and gay cash grab, though there are some videogames that actually teach you something in one way or another, many people who is working today at some tech related job started their careers by making mods and creating patches and hacks for their favorite games, the problem is when retarded goycattle buy a multi thousand gaming PC and never learn how to do anything rather than downloading Fortshite.
gamers rise up
>>537614693Hot. What's the biggest you've ever throated?
>>537614349>So now that gaming as a hobby is going down the shitter, what do we do now? Hunt jews
>>537620922what is this, 2008?
>>537614349Soon you will pay a subscription fee to use a graphics card on the cloud mark my words
>>537614349Technology is hitting a point where it's maxing out what's necessary for games of effectively any graphics level, so they're cranking up blatant artificial scarcity.
>>537633680Birdies!
>>537614349I am not sure what the purpose of the Steam Machine is even supposed to be.It's just a prebuilt PC that comes with SteamOS. There is nothing about it that makes it special, apart from the casing maybe. You could just build it yourself for less (although not sure for how much less with how much prices exploded).
>>537614349>quadrupling the storage brings the price from $1000 to $1500Could be worse I guess but I'm still not buying any variant of the Gabe Cube.
>>537616405but PC games are free and you don't pay for internet twice
>>537620804why the hell would you play rdr2? you like playing as a feminist anti racist cowboy and watching hours of cutscenes you faggot
>>537614349>8GB VRAMwho is this for?
>>537639304Gamers hahahahIts pewdiepies fault. elites wont let you have your own ai.
>>537614349>what do we do now?In 2014 i built a SFF pc with extremely cheap parts.It runs through a 15khz CRT at 240p.It's completely offline so it never has to update, i never get popups or notifications etc.It's used exclusively for emulating games from the atari 2600 up to and including the gamecube/wii + arcade (all standard definition video games).I use it every single day. It's amazing. New games are shite but you don't have to play them.
>>537638355Id buy that for a dollar!
>>5376143491000 isn't that bad for a mini pc with these specs considering current hardware prices. better than any console thats for sure even tho i am not so sure how well 16gb of ram and 8gb of vram will run games in 4k. my 4090 has 24gb of vram and i can barely hit 60fps in the new gothic remake with everything maxed out
>>537620376>I really don't see who's the demographic for this"The modern audience".
>>537638355my 2tb ssd is always full because i am a hoarder and just install games and never play them. you can get by on 512 but i would probably pay the 300 extra for the 2tb even tho its a complete ripoff lol
>>537623691Whatever fag. You're not fooling anyone.
>>537614349wit..lol gigabit ethernet????gigabit eth?!! when we have 3gig symmetrial even here in HAWAII??!!!
>>537632551Why don't you do those things Instead of posting on /pol/
>>537634740Jew memeflag using decade old memes to try and obfuscate my point kill your self groid
>>537615457A 400 dollar mini pc is better than ehatever that crap is. If you actually have money, 3k on top notch pc wouldn't be an issue for you.
MAGA policies lead to this thoughThey removed all limitations on AI which lead them to buy basically every memory and storage until 2030
>>537614349good, video games should be an exclusive hobby, if it's not gated by nerdiness then income will do.
>>537615098>doesn't just connect his computer directly to the TVYou're just super gay with extra steps. I was just playing sega rally championship on ymir. Git gud faggot
>>537637372I won't, but someone will
>>537621354because every other company also does it? only gog is better and they are getting pozzed
I'll ride it out with Nintendo switch 2. Prices are irrelevant to me until switch 3 is out and then i'll see what PC prices are like
>>537623690I have around 600gb of Stalker so yeah I get it. >>537633345Genuinely don't get why people are so faggy about buying 2nd hand shit, I buy most of my shit used. One of our big PC parts store chains stocks used parts that they'll sell with 12 month warranty, or just go on trademe (our eBay) and see>oh this dude has 500 positive trades and one neutral on his account, he's probably safe to buy a video card fromwait for new gen, buy top of line prior gen for 1/4 pricesimple as
>>537627957There's another type, at least in the US: the computer science professor or professor-adjacent who worships kikes and sucks kike dick for a living.
>>537623046Why do you stupid zoomer tranny fucks always put cum on everything ? You people are so moronically depraved. Every single AI pic on this site has some form of cum painted in it. Fucking normies are such incredible retards.
>>537614349Products like this that have almost no moving parts, no touch screens, and no batteries are perfect to buy used. I'll get the 2TB one off ebay next year for $700.
>>537642711Ask Doody, not me.
>>537633680How adorable, video games are art, they aren’t a waste of time.
>>537643244You good? Coffee still warm? Me? Listening tohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9F-SF5UlFM>You must be out of your mindLove, the best psyop!
The GameCube vs. the GabeCube
>>537625970There's something to be said for not having a 6gb of ram teid up in keeping explorer.exe from crashing like on a jeetdows PC but OS overhead is still meme tier. >>537614349>Laptop specs >Laptop prices Gaben must trust the plan for marketing to be this bad. This thing is literally a mini PC, a comedically strong mini PC/ok gaming laptop, but journos are comparing it to PC towers in an effort to ignore the fact it rapes the ps5 and xbone to death.
Project Helix is going to be $1200.https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/xbox-project-helix-all-access-leak/
>>537644299Checked, another gay Saturnic cube. The Qaaba for NEETs.
>>537614349Better specs than a similarly priced phone.
>>537614456Just buy an SSD. The prices are even dropping!
>>537628844cool it with the anti semitism
>>537641267Parts degrade in use and whole generations of gpus have been dumped on the market out of mining rigs already fucked to death. Anything good good still is expensive regardless. And half the 4000 series still sells at MSRP because Nvidia is being so Jewish about vram.
>>537614349>hobbyThe interactive jew is a vice not a hobby.
>>537614349There's nothing interesting to play.. and gta vi will get released on consoles first.
>>537614349gaming is in the best spot it's been in decades if you know what you're doing
>>537616126Weimerimutt Education >> Hitler killed tens of millions No, that was FDR, Churchill, & Stalin. Lmfao, You cannot even blame Hitler for the 27,000,000 USSR deaths since Stalin was about to invade and collapsed his own defensive lines. LMFAO I love Watching Weimerimutts & Russians Live in the jewish nigger world they created. Poor golem. Shabbos Goyim.
>>537645505You forgot your memeflag, sir.
Like get another hobby. Target shooting, if you NEED to shoot. If laws are a problem get steel bb/pvc bb/gel bb or lead pellet gun. They're fun.
>>537614693In the two decades I've been coming to this internet gutter I don't think I've ever read a more cringe worthy larp. Gave me a chuckle though so thanks for that
>>537631899Starter GF before you get a real one.
>>537616781kek this.
>>537614349>destroy blue collar jobs with migrant labor>destroy white collar jobs with jeets and AI>take away the bread and circusFun times are ahead.
>>537621871Hardware will be cheap again because we are going to find where these People live and fucking kill them, along with their wives and children
>>537623691>join usThat's rich coming from someone that clearly indulges in jewish gatekeeping.
>>537614349Build your own PC, problem solved.
>>537620922Why is this so normal now to consider sd cards as long term storage? Write endurance is absolute shite and they die for no reason. Gabenigger couldn't even give spare pcie/m.2/occulink/usb4/tb3+ connectivity. But rejoice, we have a fucking sd card reader.
>>537621181It's for people that want a pc-like console. It's basically the same size as a gamecube, but the gabecube is an actual cube. Then they proceeded to fuck it all up by going with a tiny internal power supply and limit cpu to something like 30w.>>537625451They also targeted a level of performance based on the steam survey. Which had a known glitch that would fail to report dedicated gpu cards if there was an igpu in the system, skewing the average considerably lower. Not to mention the ton of office pc's that have steam installed to play balatro and the like.
>>537614349Inflation happened. Everything is about twice the cost now.€1500 for a machine like that is a steal. Of course i self built a machine a year ago so I paid nothing like these prices and my machine is way better.
>>537628844If we relied on the US you would just remotely deactivate everything or drive us into trees at high speed like you do to americans.
>>537649540>Then they proceeded to fuck it all up by going with a tiny internal power supply and limit cpu to something like 30w.Never skimp out on the PSU nor cooling.
>>537649699shut the fuck up nigger.
>>537650316Cant. Too important. Not a nigger nor a biracial hybrid. Order up.https://youtu.be/6dMjCa0nqK0
>>537615364Who are “they”? If american companies are expensive i will just buy from china
>>537615457How do you write off a gaming cube on your taxes? Are you some professional game reviewer or something?
>>537650510Just get a YouTube channel like the rest of us. Works for DSP. Why do you think he did the bizzare Virtual Boy stream and narrating what he sees?
>>537644501Lmao I bought the 4TB version for that money 3 years ago.
>>537614349LOL LMAO
>>537614349>Or better yet how do we fix this?It's already fixed. You're just shopping in the wrong country. You can have trillionaires or you can have nice things. You can't have both.
>>537650970Would that be cheaper even with the tariffs?
>>537614349>I need to play inferior products on overpriced hardwareno wonder zoomers are getting chinese game boys
>>537615199>"No.">"BUT YOU MUST. WE CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT. WE'LL MANDATE IT LIKE THE UK TELEVISION FEES REEE.">"We'll string you up and murder your children."
>>537651013It would, but Trump banned it like Huawei phones and BYD cars, lol. There are about a hundred companies on the 1260H List of banned imports now. And the FCC keeps a totally separate list with even more. America is turning into the Soviet Union. Locked out of the best affordable consumer goods. You can buy this shit in Mexico...for now. CXMT Ram specifically goes under the KingBank brand in Mexico. May as buy a $20,000 brand new BYD Dolphin while you're at it. Because soon you won't be able to bring it across the border anymore either. Once the cartels catch on, it'll become more profitable to smuggle in banned Chinese goods.
>>537622860You have a virus. Delete system32.
>>537614349Youll own nothing and be happy
>>537652237You will own your own posts on my imageboard that comes out this October after CU ends.
The gaming industry goes on milking the same cow (millennials and now their kids). The funny part is that the expensive systems are bought by 35yo+ normalfags who buy like three games and never use the thing because they barely have any free time while zoomers are priced out and cope with smartphone slop.
>>537620922>You have to buy external storage space (plus tip) because... you just have to okay?
>>537652726I mean...ya I make $250k + equity and have less time to both build and play now. I'm probably the target goyim
>>537651655What's best country in terms of quality of life and access go goods ratio, that a USA /EU citizen can tap into?
>>537614349I'm still using the PC I built in 2017, no good new games came out since so I'm good.
>>537614349>There's no contracts, there's nothing.>Those guys, they give us a price every month and they say you can buy that many. It's yes or no.>If we say no they never talk to us again.RAM suppliers are a cartel
>>537614349PC master race can get that same performance for half the price, Valve is fucking retarded
>>537644299>GabeCube Moar like GayCube
>>537614349>microcenter: 8gb HDD drive is $400, 16gb of ram is $300Still cheaper than building a PC, and only $100 more than current steamdeck prices. new proton developments are allowing x86 games to run well on arm64(Microsoft prism eats dick)If ai didnt fuck the market this device would probs be $600 right now. I have the deck and don't need one of these, my steam controller is on waitlist for September delivery. I can finally lay my 2015 model to rest. >t. Steam fan boy
>>537614349We go out onto the streets.
Im so glad I kept my old PC parts over the years. Just build my Daughter a Gaming PC for 200 bucks. Most were my old Hardware (RTX 2070 super, ryzen 5 3600, 16gb DDR4 3100mhz)Rest was cheap but the SSD.But all she plays is Roblox on it..
>>537614349>what do we do now?Find a more productive hobby.
>>537614349>steamy pad is 100 clamsi boughted 32 gb ddr5 ram two years ago for 110 clams lmao
>>537653108All they had to do was eat a few hundred bucks in cost but no.
>>537643260>video games are artVideo games on their own can be extremely low tiers of art, but you grinding fromslop bosses for hours is a colossal waste of time because you're a manchild that will never grow up. YOU will never be the artist in this picture, just the lowly goymer consuming your slop.
>>537652879For now for at least electronics and computer parts and lightweight shit, just get a good VPN and buy on Taobao and arrange shipment with SuperBuy. You're gonna have to get outside the NATO bubble probably if you want to find the sweet spot. Iceland might be the best bet otherwise.
Fuck, video games looks like a pretty cheap hobby. Why didn't anybody tell me about this?Where's a good place to start with this stuff?
>>537653706Its not a hobby its worse than a slot machine.
>>537654205Just don't play gachanonsense.
>>537614349WE HAVE SWITCH AND THE SECRET VERY SECRET INTEL DESIGN THAT ONLY JEWS KNOW…INTEL IS MAKING A SWITCH HYBRID AND THE JEWS GAVE ME THE SECRET PAPER THAT THE HANDHELD IS TWICE THE POWER OF THE HANDHELD PS6 TWICE AND IT RUNS WINDOWS AND STEAMAND IT HAS 32GB OF RAM 32 AND IT HAS A VERY GOOD GPUAND THE BEST MOBILE CPUAND IT HAS 2 TB OF STORAGE AND IT IS SHINY AND AND IT WILL COST $599 WITH AN OLED SCREEN YHVH
>>537620922SD cards are shit and also expensive.
>>537633680>he's bragging about watching anime until he's only 30 years oldIf you watch cartoons and play with digital toys past 20 you are fucked in the head and are unlikely to recover.
>>537621181>>2TB memoryretard boomer spotted
NORTH OF$1,000PRICEPOINT
>>537614349At this point i've been considering technology from as far back as 2008 to 2012. Fuck the future, fuck their expensive prices. If you pay a price like this, you're being cucked by Sam Altman. I stopped buying hardware and consoles like this. I'm going back to the past, and anyone with common sense will do that rather than pay 1000$ for a piece of shit. I'd rather buy an old sun server. AI data centers is to make you eat the bugs, live in a pod and use their terminal monitor to log into their data centers. You vill live in ze metaverse you will comply and it vill get vorse!
>>537644299Chadcube vs Cuckcube
>>537645882Shut the fuck up nameflaggot No one Asked, retard.
>>537614349My PS2 still works fine, skill issue.
>>537661487Sorry I dont listen to retards. Order up.
>>537661538What kinda add-ons you got for it?
>>537644641I bought a 6700xt out of a mining rig back when ethereum switched to proof of stake. I benchmarked it and it was performing in the top 1% of those cards. I only recently upgraded it, and gave it to my workmate's son who's got it in his pc now, still going hard.
