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A new leak claims that a Half-Life 3 announcement might have been delayed due to the Steam Machine price. According to the insider, Valve is still trying to determine the console’s cost due to skyrocketing hardware component prices, such as RAM.
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if valve is waiting for ram price to come down then steam machine won’t be released until 2028…
It won’t ever be released, prices are never coming back down
Lets have hope, if the AI bubble bursts prices will go down.
Or they keep the prices up because consumers got used to them.
I don’t think I can get used to $1000 64 GB Ram.
It’s not like RAM has never been this expensive before. It’s still at a historically low price.
The US government has a financial vested interest in the AI bubble. They will artificially keep the bubble going. The AI bubble collapses when American society and government collapses.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
The United States has less and less influence on the world every day.
if the AI bubble bursts prices will go down
Considering how everything tied and glued together in IT, when AI bubble will blow up, not only it will collapse US economy, it will also increase all prices in IT, as I see it. ARM? Belongs to Nvidia. x86? Basically a duopoly of AMD and Intel. Anything IT and corp related? Most probably located or entirely American. Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. you name it.
Whole IT right now is like that dude from “it goes down” meme
Nah, it’d bring prices crashing down as the market gets flooded with all the used hardware from the AI data centers being cleared out and auctioned off in bulk lots by bankruptcy courts and debt collectors, leading people to buy them by the truck loads and put on ebay for pennies on the original retail dollar.
Never thought I would be expressing accelerationist views but rn I just want the crash to happen. AI is bullshit and the sooner everyone realizes that the better.
Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.
Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there’s always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.
The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.
I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.
I don’t remember where I heard it, but a phrase I quite like is “AI is the death drive of capitalism”
They think there’s nothing else left so yes its the death throes of capitalism.
How about actually building good devices again? Devices we actually own that arent filled with spyware, and that are repairable and moddable by us. Or good software/os’s. This is the problem with capitalism. It does not breed innovation.
But no. You’ll own nothing and be happy. The ruling class cannot let us own anything ever again.
what in the fuck does ai have to do with this post
edit: oh its the hardware prices. yea
yes of course. HL3 is being delayed because something in the future is exploding backwards through time and fucking everything up. This is the only explanation I choose to accept.
The GMan has broken containment and is now wandering through our timeline, inserting people into the right points to change the future. I guess this explains the whacky wild ride we’re currently on.
Game is delayed because they couldn’t tell people about it on a stage. This sounds logical.
“All good things…”
Oh yeah, hardware prices are what’s preventing HL3 from coming out. Sure.
Just gonna quote what I said last time, applies here too
THIS JUST IN: Person says thing, gives no evidence.
We’ll be back at 11 for your evening updates!
This is just straight cope. HL3 isn’t coming out anytime soon.
I’m confused, was there any expectation it would that I missed? As far as I know half life is dead. They never even finished episode 3 of half life 2 from like two decades ago.
Half-Life Alyx proves it’s not totally dead. It even retconned an important plot point, which would make sense to do if they’re planning to continue the story in some way.
There are persistent rumors that Valve is planning to release it alongside the Steam Machine.
There has been a lot of data mining in the past few months that indicates they are working on something that has yet to be released, which is very likely a Half Life game. I’ve been watching the HLX Files series by Tyler McVicker for a while as he sticks to just facts without much hype.
Right
Half life 3 won’t happen.
Hopium administered
Give it another week and the ram for the steam machine will cost more than the whole steam machine the day it was announced.
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So that’s why it takes so long.
A few weeks ago journalists said that complete systems will not be affected short term because OEMs order RAM and SSDs a year in advance.
So what is it?
It is a Vice article. It has the journalistic credibility of a dirty wet wipe.
Edit: Lol, the source is an off the cuff remark of Mike Straw on a podcast. The same Dude has been teasing this news of an alleged leak since November and produced not a single shred of evidence while being an asshat on xitter about it at the same time. This is not the first time this guy speculates over future games and is taken out of context by fans.
You won’t be able to order the next batch unless you charge the increase in the first as you won’t have the funds.
Just because a journalist says something doesn’t mean it’s even remotely true.
Basic economics.
Bundle it with Star Citizen
And Beyond Good & Evil 2.
You uh, that’s all three wishes, you sure you don’t want something more traditional, like world peace or something?
Don’t get my hopes up, especially if what they eventually release is in Duke Nukem Forever quality.
