Pretty sure wealthy scumbags have been centralizing production and distribution to jack prices for many more years than this ai boom.
This applies to everything. Down with the Epstein Class!
Unless it’s Kojima, Larian, or From Software, I stick to very affordable indies. Gaming isn’t expensive when you avoid the big corporate grifters.
Yeah. I wish we could go back 3 years before this boom started and everything cheap…
Amazon 3 yrs ago: Why are you buying 20k 16GB and 32GB DDR5 sticks?
Oh, no reason…
The article is only referring to the more recent price hikes caused by RAM shortage, so no wonder it feels like a cheap shot to say “ai bad”, which is correct, but misses the fucking forest - consoles are really expensive without offering that big of a “bang for your buck” as they once did decades ago, capitalism shifting most companies into whatever is the current most lucrative fad of the moment, companies fighting against players’ ownership of games in the form of “Live service battlepass with extra skins”, company heads demanding maximum profit
When these data centers go bust, there’ll be a flood of hardware to the used market which will crater demand on new stuff. These companies couldn’t shoot themselves in the foot harder.
Bah these articles are trash. I’ve got a 5 year old PC ands still playing games on high. For console, Switch games and even DS are still great portable and multiplayer options.
Gaming is cheaper than ever because we’ve got a massive backlog of great games that you’d never catch up on even if you did nothing but game all day. Plus stuff more than a few years old gets CHEAP!
I wouldn’t mind upgrading, but even if something dies I can buy a used replacement and keep going until this bubble pops.
Tell me you didn’t read the article whithout telling me you didn’t read the article. The point this article is making is that AI is driving up the cost of purchasing NEW components, and that this issue is affecting console makers as well as the PC market. Additionally, consoles that have been out for several years, (PS5 released in 2020,) haven’t dropped in price, since in theory, demand should be low by now, but instead the prices have risen since their original release date.
I updated my PC a year ago, because before that I was rocking DDR3 ram and a 12 year old processor and GTX1060. My old PC was struggling to render newer titles with high settings and was not win11 compatible.
Fuck the gamers that want to upgrade their rigs to play newer titles on high, or people that don’t already have a PC or console and are making their first purchase, DireTech already has a PC that can play titles and a backlog of games.
Tell me you didn’t read my post without replying without…you know. Where did I mention new anywhere? Yes, bubbles ruin the price on the latest and greatest. We’ve been dealing with it since crypto. However, we don’t NEED the latest and greatest anymore and haven’t for years.
Despite the bubble, this is still a better time when it comes to ability to play awesome games for cheap than ever before.
