Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that’s a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold out.

  • theparadox@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Nobody needs any entertainment, but some people enjoy hobbies like gaming.

    no company has ever responded to more sales with lower prices

    Prices are going up rapidly thanks to AI data centers exploding demand by orders of magnitude more than retail customers. There is no end in sight to the price increases.

    If you want a gaming device, buy it sooner rather than later. That’s all I am saying.

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      7 hours ago

      Is there not a future in which the AI bubble bursts, and we are in a glut of datacentre memory and storage with no buyers?

      There should be a cataclysmic bottoming out of the market that leads to a period of cheap, abundant parts.