Even after the AI bubble pops, even after Trump is done (for good) with starting more wars, trade or otherwise - we clearly have a “new normal” for prices.
I’m not a pessimist in that I do think consumer computing will survive and we will not end up in a subscription-compute-only future. Prices will eventually go back to getting lower over time.
But I am guessing this one-time extreme re-pricing due to Trump’s destruction of all consumer-focused price momentum, and the lack of AI regulation, have together cost us a decade before we’re back at price parity per compute/RAM/storage costs even despite technological advancements.
I agree that this isn’t the death of home computing. There’s Chinese companies that are just getting ready to mass produce ram. Between that and the AI bubble popping prices will eventually go back down
seems like an optimal time for startups to undercut the big guys
How hard can it be? It’s only the most complicated tech humans can build with one of the most sensitive supply chains, while the machines to build them are also skyrocketing in price while all the venture capital is being flushed down the toilet.
Yeah, the cost of entry is only like ten billion dollars, how hard can it be?
Also, if you break ground on your factory today with infinite resources, it’ll only take 5 years for you to get a product out the door that’s nearly as good as what the big guys put out 5 years ago.
Good thing there’s Chinese manufacturers that started that years ago and are just now starting to push more ram into the market
To fail or then be bought by meta if successful
What makes you think whoever comes after trump wouldn’t start new wars? That sounds too optimistic of you
Because why war when to quote Machinehead from Invincible:
Now, back to the business of making so much money, IT’S F**KING RIDICULOUS!
Scalpers, im sure
To sell for an even more ridiculous amount of money?
Was there that much demand for the steam deck at the new higher price? I know Lemmy is a bubble but everyone pretty much says it was too much.
Edit: I just saw this in the article so I checked and I can get a 512gb version for $699 on eBay right now. If it is scalpers then they aren’t making money.
new and pre-owned Steam Deck units (both OLED and non) are selling around or below Valve’s retail pricing on eBay.
Comments like: They had only 4 or 6 units.
Actually Valve can’t count to 3, so there were only 2 (one for each).
were there like 4 of them in total?
It is of course possible that they had something like six of them in stock.
Still in stock in Canada, so I guess the US part of North America is sold out.
I don’t get it. 007 has about 60k players so probably just as many sales in the last 24h, and the deck beat that. Who’s buying +60k of it at this price?
Steam’s top charts are by revenue, not volume. In Canada the 512GB OLED Steam Deck costs as much as about 12.5 copies of 007, so it’d take ~4800 Decks to bring in the same revenue as 60k copies of 007.
Scalpers probably.
Ok, but if nobody would want to buy it at 950, I assume they would also not buy it at 1000+ or however much the scalpers will be asking for. Unless they’re counting on it being a collectible or they expect the prices to go much higher.
