Seems like the component shortages thanks to AI may have finally hit Valve as in the US, Canada and Asia all models of Steam Deck are completely out of stock.
  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    GPU shortage of 2018

    Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions

    NFT craze

    And now Altman’s bullshit. All I want is to tinker with computers, learning about their inner-workings, the science behind them and play games. Why do profit-driven enterprises always have ruin our hobbies? Just so we can produce slop content to make the internet more bloated than it is already? Is it the worth the water depletion and the environmental destruction?

    • despoticruin@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 days ago

      If all you want to do is learn how they work then you should stop pining for new hardware. Go learn on an old AM3 or LGA 1155 system, stuff generally works the same.

    • despite_velasquez@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Because hyperscalers can buy multiple orders of magnitude more of anything consumers can buy collectively. And they won’t complain, and if their shit breaks they’ll just buy 100,000 pallets-worth more. Consumers have reviews, thoughts, drama and will never have the margins hyperscalers can have.

      Thank anti-antitrust, Wall St for this. I’m genuinely depressed at the state of personal computing, I see a future of thin clients and renting compute as a genuinely possible future.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    32·
    4 days ago

    That’s not good. There’s zero chance they’ll just drop a new one before the other stuff is out. Either they can’t manufacture them at the current price point any more, or they were caught out by increasing demand, which is likely caused by the current hardware piece increases.

      • Abundance114@lemmy.world
        13·
        4 days ago

        ram prices have gotten high enough that they cannot price the console

        If that was true, then anything that uses RAM would be following a similar theme.

        • muelltonne@feddit.org
          1·
          6 hours ago

          Yes, that is exactly what will happen. Every device needs RAM and the problem is not only that the prices are going up, but also that the market is empty. So even if you want to buy RAM at higher prices, you can’t

        • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
          10·
          4 days ago

          Well, things like raspberry pi’s are already getting more expensive. Big companies are insulated a little bit longer, but they will get more expensive also.