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Welp, my hype for the Steam Machine just died faster than lightspeed.
Due to current market conditions my wallet will remain closed
We get nothing, we lose, good day sir.
Not sure I’ll be getting a steam machine now given these steam deck prices , gonna be crazy high
Thanks, AI
As if there weren't enough reasons to hate AI... but a whopping $300 price increase?? This effectively eliminates the biggest advantage Steam Deck had over now more powerful competitors: value. How expensive gaming as a whole is becoming is utterly absurd and woefully unsustainable.
Just like that any hype for the steam machine evaporated
Valve can no longer hold, huh? That crazy shit Sam Altman pulled surely had a butterfly effect
It's almost as if the largest RAM producer moving to only manufacture for AI was a recipe for a market crash.
Turns out I’m gonna have to do only fans just to get a steam deck
At this rate the best way to get ram will be raiding a data center
crazy to me that i could sell my Steam deck for more then i bought it years ago
The steam deck is a great machine, but that price increase is insane, and I wouldn't buy it now unless I had more dollars than sense.
I hate AI. All my homies hate AI. F*CK AI. DESTROY THESE DATA CENTERS!
So when will regular folk rebel and start raiding data centers?
Our area just voted for 800K to a new data center. We also recently had out electricity bill triple... But, it's unrelated they say...
And the hype train was derailed at this moment
I've been waiting months for them to restock....for them to restock with a price increase. Nope, not buying one anymore
I fear how much the Steam Machine will cost now.
I live in fear of my video card malfunctioning