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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.

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[–] blah3166@piefed.social 104 points 2 days ago (2 children)

a steal if you consider tomorrow's prices

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 105 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Im going to steal because I considered tomorrow prices

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A lot of people going to be feeling that way which is why I'm done walking around with my Deck out.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 31 points 2 days ago

But what about decks out for Harambe?

[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 13 points 2 days ago

Put your deck away Waltuh

[–] buedi@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

Trade one for a fidget Spinner!

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Only if AI continues to ramp up.

We're seeing a lot of cracks. I don't know if any bubbles are going to burst, but the hype is far less common than the frustration these days.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would say it depends who you ask. Nvidia is all up for the hype. https://isaiprofitable.com/

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck NVidia. Wouldn't use them with Linux anyway.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is ok for NVidia, they don't really want to sell to end users anymore. AI datacenters give way higher margins

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When that falls through (and it will), they'll try to come crawling back to retail.

Don't let them.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The broader a customer base, the less solidarity there is.

Nvidia has shit on consumer goodwill in the past, they never get punished for it.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If the other manufacturers had any sense whatsoever, they'd be using this opportunity to take over Nvidia's market share. Leave them no space to come back to once the bottom falls out on AI datacenters.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

only if they publicly fire and black ball huang

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On the other hand, I've seen a lot of stories of people getting addicted to the "agentic harnesses" and personally (and happily) blowing through hundreds to thousands of dollars/month. I've seen people write articles about how their $200/month subscriptions are such a good deal, lol. Companies are forcing their employees to use AI at insane costs. Nearly every software engineering job posting mentions using AI tools as a requirement. Anthropic's revenue is set to double this quarter and be its first profitable quarter (likely using a lot of accounting tricks).

I'm really curious if this AI industry can self-perpetuate itself with stupidity and greed indefinitely as everything becomes shittier and unreliable, and civilization slowly crumbles.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That's the beginning of a bubble popping. Addicts and stupid people only have so much money. It runs out quicker than you'd think.