The real reason hardware is getting insanely expensive is that they want to price end users out having their own hardware. They want on cloud gaming subscriptions so you will own nothing and be happy.
We know. It's why I've been making threads for MONTHS telling anons to upgrade their hardware. I hope you listened, /v/.
>>731434309So what are anons future plans when they can no longer buy pc parts and their gpu dies or something
>>731434309I did back in November.
I am almost convinced that after the Ai bubble bursts they will try to salvage all the data centers in to Cloud PC rentals.
>>731434197Hardware is expensive because you're unemployed
>>731434524Yup. Could easily see them doing this.
Peope will just be content with paying for stagnant lower spec hardware and software developers will be forced to actually stop making their products any more bloated and inefficient.
>>731435264>software developers will be forced to actually stop making their products any more bloated and inefficient.NO SAAR, YOU WILL ENJOY EVERY PROGRAM USING A GIG OF RAM OR MORE
>>731434197>a few hundred dollars more is "insanely expensive" to me
Not everyone can spend $5,000 on a computer.
>>731435726did you spend $4800 on a computer?
>>731435726people have hobbies where they spend thousands of dollars on speaker cables, or rare stamps, or bottles of wine.if you arent prepared to spend more than $500 on your favorite hobby then thats down to you
>>731434197Repeatedly making this post doesn't make it any truer.Those are things that some want but it isn't something they can actually achieve.The AI speculation is a separate problem that affects hardware prices far more than any meager effort for another amazon stadia geforce now setup.I don't know if you have noticed this, but all of those have repeatedly failed to get any consumer marketshare, and that is not going to change now just because of some AI bubble.
>>731434469I have plenty of other devices dating back to 1990 that are capable of playing video games. I'll be fine.
>>731434469Pretty much all of my faves run on a toaster. I COULD afford to drop 5k on my primary passtime but on principle I would rather make do with a raspberry pi than pay the AI tax.
>>731435523You could buy 32gb for around $80 a year ago. Now it's almost $600
>>731434197>just don't get cloud subscriptions>the company withers awayit's almost as if not consuming for a while would fix this issue but anons cannot into market economy i guess, or you secretly want to own nothing.
>>731434197It's literally impossible because the golden age of gaming died with the 7th gen. You would literally have to price out people out of 2005-2007 hardware.
It's a stupid idea because they already can't make games that people like today. Imagine what their output is going to be like 10-15 years from now.
>>731436470so you bought 32gb a year ago , right?
>>731436554Voting with your wallet does nothing when everyone else doesn't.
Where are those cloud gaming options then?
>>731436686I built a new PC last year. That still doesn't negate the fact that everyone else who didn't is fucked.
>>731436760XboxPSnowGeforce Now
>>731436808if you didn't need a new pc last year then you don't need one this year either
>The real reason hardware is getting insanely expensive is that they want to price end users out having their own hardware. >They want on cloud gaming subscriptions so you will own nothing and be happy.
>>731436721Actually nobody buys that crap so they are voting with their wallets.Clearly they would rather buy 2x priced GPUs than ever consider a bullshit subscription.>>731436861do consoles really?
>>731434197Honestly you'll just need to get used to renting PCs from the cloud and accept that people won't own their PCs.
if you're poor you should be making money, not gaming.
i think at this point the societal elite just do shit at random when they run out of dystopian things to do and base their next actions on whatever the most dystopian things the general public claims they're trying to do with their random action, using said claims as inspiration
>>731436948Holy shit you're a retard.
>>731437162That poor billionaire hopes you will keep posting this while rimming him because he would really like you to do it.
>>731437189100%
>>731434524>>731434715These computers can't run videogames or decode video. They're expensive paper weights if nobody is using them.
>>731434197This thread is so weird. Don't you guys have new Android phones? They can run PC games at Steam Deck settings.
>>731434197The real reason poorfags make these posts is because they're bitches and are jealous of gamers (like bitches).
>>731437592People keep acting like AI compute is some fragile bubble, but it’s literally just GPU farms. Same hardware already used for VFX, 3D rendering, simulation, and games. If AI margins drop, the hardware doesn’t disappear. They just point it somewhere else.And that lines up perfectly with the whole “you will own nothing” direction. The incentive isn’t selling you a GPU, it’s making local gaming economically infeasible.Centralize the compute, keep the GPUs in data centers, rent frames instead of hardware. Games turn into services, ownership and offline play slowly go away. Same thing Netflix did to media. Not because discs stopped working, but because owning was made inefficient.If AI demand cools, that actually helps them. Cheaper GPU hours make cloud gaming more viable, not less. So no, the risk isn’t stranded AI hardware. The risk is the hardware never coming back to consumers.
>>731437284Please explain..
>>731438951With that return on investment? Might as well start looking putting the fries in the bad.
