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  • Dr Jess Birchshivoa@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Aug 17, 2026, 11:30 AM

    @djlink It seems like a product where the second gen device will be a much better value and all round product that becomes genuinely "good enough" to play most games on a TV. Also should happen after RAM price nonsense ends so will be much better + priced sanely.
    (I realise I also said "wait for 2nd gen" about the Steam Deck back in the day and those internals are still basically unchanged today. But I don't think I'm wrong just because Valve have failed to iterate past a new screen.)

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  • David Amadordjlink@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Aug 17, 2026, 11:39 AM

    @shivoa probably yes. While I'm not tempted in buying RAM now for work PC before it gets more expensive, I also don't think it will get to better prices in the next few years, I think this will be bad for several years.

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  • Dr Jess Birchshivoa@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Aug 17, 2026, 11:48 AM

    @djlink My pessimistic outlook is that memory chip vendors have made more money in the last 18 months than they did in the previous 40 years combined & will not want to go back to the previous norm (so want to fix a new higher price, lower volume world of personal computing devices).
    My optimistic view is that we can't keep on going like this and the threat of China's Project 2035 smashing into profiteers (+ AI bubble pop) will drive down prices in the next 2-3 years, back to sustainable levels.

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  • David Amadordjlink@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Aug 17, 2026, 11:53 AM

    @shivoa yeah, unfortunately considering they are already announcing they sold all the stock for next 2 years I think they want to keep up the prices high as much as possible, artificially or not

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  • Dr Jess Birchshivoa@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Aug 17, 2026, 11:56 AM

    @djlink Or did they "sell" them, just like Sam Altman wrote a letter of intent to buy 40% of the memory chips for server farms he is never going to build funded by paper money that isn't real investments from other AI players (who are all pretending the same dollar bouncing round the corporate bank accounts makes for a trillion dollars of total investment)?
    I could see their "already sold out" changing as soon as the AI bubble actually pops and AI datacentres are as popular as superfund sites.

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