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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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[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 103 points 2 months ago

if valve is waiting for ram price to come down then steam machine won't be released until 2028....

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 months ago

It won't ever be released, prices are never coming back down

[-] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 months ago

Lets have hope, if the AI bubble bursts prices will go down.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

Or they keep the prices up because consumers got used to them.

[-] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 months ago

I don't think I can get used to $1000 64 GB Ram.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Don’t threaten me with a good time

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

The United States has less and less influence on the world every day.

[-] chocrates@piefed.world 2 points 2 months ago

If it bursts the ram will be on graphic card in a warehouse somewhere. We still will need to ramp back up consumer production I assume.

[-] de_lancre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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.

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