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The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

memory is way up

GPU's will need memory, production cuts

followed by production cuts for cpu's monitors and powersupplies

welcome to the $10k mid range gaming PC in 2027

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And all that just for some shitty AI that's getting all its questions wrong

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 10 points 12 hours ago

And my monthly power bill has tripled to subsidize them. I'm paying for several new PCs for someone whether I like it or not.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 7 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

I wonder if developers will finally start taking middle end GPUs and the existing handhelds seriously.

There are "Deck optimized" games that run horrendously. But what if people can't afford new hardware for the next four years? It's either fix the performance or lose sales. The Switch 2 is likely going to become the most common performance target, and having only 12GBs of shared memory, it actually helps PCs in this situation.

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

I wonder if developers will finally start taking middle end GPUs and the existing handhelds seriously

They'll have to, soon enough, if they wanna continue selling games

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

run horrendously. But what if people can’t afford new hardware for the next four years? It’s either fix the performance or lose sales. The Switch 2 is likely going to become the most common performance target, and having only 12GBs of shared memory, it actually helps PCs in this situation.

One could hope, but the cost will carry through to consoles as well :(