this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2025
422 points (90.6% liked)
Technology
77925 readers
3909 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.
It'll depend on the futures contracts. They'll have price clauses and, get-out clauses , resale clauses and stuff, so it'll come down to lawyering.
It's unlikely that journos know the contract details. Buy clearly any OEM without a futures contract already in place does not have access to low prices.
And any OEM with cheap stock and contractual freedom to resell would seriously consider parting out and selling off stock at the windfall price.