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Valve raises Steam Deck prices

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Re: Valve raises Steam Deck prices

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Post by Muromec »

utopiah wrote: post #114
pepperoni_pizza wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

China is working hard on getting their own fabs. Then the have no need to keep TSMC operational.

As I said China is indeed already working on their entire value chain. They have been doing that for a while and they have made significant progress. Still so far they don't have the precision, scale and economical competitiveness than TSMC. If they get there then it will be a totally different scenario but that's not the case for now.

It's not a if it's when. ASML doesn't pay fuck you money to their employees just to keep China from hiring them away.

Eventually ASML will get in same boat as all of the Western industries from shipbuilding and car manufacturing to everything else.

It may take one year or twenty, but law if it's a matter of national security for them, eventually they will get ahead.

Re: Valve raises Steam Deck prices

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Post by wtetzner »

bluescrn wrote: post #24
fzeroracer wrote: post #2

I don't think it's much of a wonder why people are turning to 'anti-tech extremism' as everything around them suddenly is no longer consumer priced. Seeing computing rise anywhere from 1.5x to 2x in pricing while the job market is fucked is enough to make me extremely bitter.

I’m much more concerned by the skyrocketing cost of housing, energy, food, and transport than the cost of tech luxuries. If I never buy another GPU or console again, there’s more than enough quality gaming for several lifetimes available on older hardware and often very inexpensively.

> older hardware and often very inexpensively

What makes you think demand won't drive those prices up as well? And this is more than just gaming, the Steam Deck prices are increased due to the increase cost of general components like RAM, which impacts machines used to do work as well.

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Post by Muromec »

sergiotapia wrote: post #97

I can't wait for China to start shipping hardware. I will vote with my wallet and have a chinese GPU, RAM and device. Hell, I would be using a Xiaomi phone right this second if this government didn't block it.

OrangePi is a thing and runs desktop Linux. Not great for gaming zo

Re: Valve raises Steam Deck prices

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Post by Corence »

ericd wrote: post #40
pesus wrote: post #18

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Exactly. Not only have the prices gone up, they've gone up for no real reason other than some CEOs are attempting to take over society. The average person isn't even seeing much of the upside of modern technology anymore, just the downsides. Gadgets no longer get cheaper over time, experiences no longer improve over time, and every new startup or innovation seems to be used to make their lives worse, whether directly…

>The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech Really? Most people I know seem to have found the chatbots tremendously helpful. It's much faster than researching via a bunch of google searches.

Google search is worse because of recent AI tech flooding the internet with misinformation and low quality articles.

Re: Valve raises Steam Deck prices

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Post by colechristensen »

goldenarm wrote: post #140
protoster wrote: post #50

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This feels like a sign of something very bad happening soon

What kind of thing ? Shortages ?

We're in a pretty big bubble predicated on the idea that AI is going to have a lot more value than it actually will. Not that it's not going to be useful, it just isn't going to be the incredible force multiplier the market thinks it is. This speculation, gas prices, tariffs, etc. are going to result in a 2009-ish bubble pop I'm guessing which will be triggered by particularly bad private credit default news (perhaps a sizable bank failing?) and or some major news triggering the reevaluation of the AI hype poking at some systemic banking issue or another.
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