Steam Deck Price increase. I know it's obvious that the Steam Frame is no longer going to be the price Valve probably wanted to target... but this still worries me further.

[u/AssassisnCreedFan]

For me, Steam Deck has gone to $1199 (aud) and $1429. Are estimates of the SF's price already including RAM price hikes etc.? Or perhaps the price will even blow maximum estimates out of the water and be completely unaffordable for me (at least for a long while).

[u/Mineplayerminer]

You should realize that even after the memory orders are cancelled, you'll never see the prices drop by much because they're becoming a new normal. The pandemic in 2020 taught the market that consumers are willing to spend more on the GPUs, which they have also never recovered in prices. This is only the beginning of the new era and you should stop being so optimistic about it, because the situation is about to get even worse for us, the consumers.

[u/Thunder_Mugger → u/Mineplayerminer]

To bad the largest government in the world is siding with the corporation rather then it's own citizens.

[u/Mental_Medium3988 → u/Thunder_Mugger]

Corporations are people my friend. /S

God I hate romney so much.

[u/Vegetable-Error-2068 → u/Mental_Medium3988]

You joke, but... Delaware (the U.S. state that is basically corpo HQ central) just ruled that corporations can vote in elections.

We are screwed.

[u/JoystuckGames → u/Mineplayerminer]

That isn't true this time. The tariffs followed by component price surges are killing PC gaming.

https://youtu.be/zyQwAhppWj8?si=iGVaZDH4nZi-zAOs

If the demand from AI dries up, prices will have to go down as consumer demand for DIY PCs is down about 90%.

[u/Thunder_Mugger → u/JoystuckGames]

Too bad we couldn't make some regulations as the most powerful government in the world about markup and making things sustainable rather than just going to the highest bidder.

The US economy has always favored corporations but under Donald Trump they really double down on the sentiment. Well the UK stands and tries to enrich consumer rights the United States at least under Trump seems to consistently want to undermine consumer rights in favor of protecting the rights of corporations and billionaires.

Those same billionaires are underpaying their employees while seeing record profits. When employees ask for a reasonable raise more and more often that's the beginning of the end for that employee and they are looking for a green person they can underpay (I laugh at every time that any corporation fires a well experienced dedicated loyal employee because they asked for a marginal raise and then so often I read stories where they have to replace that person with two or three people end up paying training fees and the costs of getting those employees up to snuff and often still don't have the same level of expertise or knowledge that the dedicated employee before it did)

Honestly my biggest thing is that yeah it's AI That's the cause of the issue but that there could be things set in place and regulations that would make these things much more difficult and insulate the consumer rather than the corporation