• Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 hours ago

    I love GN for what they do, but I just can’t get into the video format for tech hardware news or reviews.

    For some topics, I totally understand the strength of the video format, but for other it just doesn’t make sense to me. A review is much quicker to process with commentary text and relevant charts for benchmarking. I would argue the same for less in-depth news and analysis.

    I also wish GN had a peetrube channel!

  • HasturInYellow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    “corrupt industry” is a bit redundant, isn’t it?

    Show me an industry that isn’t built, from foundation to the tip of the pyramid, out of blocks of condensed corruption. Show me one that has not perpetrated unimaginable horrors on uncountable numbers of humans for generations.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    45·
    6 hours ago

    Remember how graphics card prices tripled several years ago, and never came back to sane prices?

    Sigh.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Yeah, but that affected only gamers, now it’s all computer nerds (corpos can switch to thin clients).

    • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      I remember somebody stole like a whole truck of graphics cards. Stealing shit gonna be a very lucrative business as everything gets more expensive and most law enforcement are busy tackling us citizen nurses on their way to work.

  • MonkeBizNES@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    212·
    7 hours ago

    If building a PC does in fact get too expensive for individuals, I wonder what that will do for the sale of the Steam Machine which should (theoretically) get people into PC gaming for much cheaper. Maybe all-in-one pre-built PC’s like the steam machine become the norm…idk

    • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      I wouldn’t mind if this led to devs stopping the constant push for heavier graphics in games and instead moved to making sure they run well with how upgrading is looking to be less and less feasible for more people.

      • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        I think economics would basically push things that way. If most people cannot or will not buy the latest hardware, the investment of 600 million dollars or more into a AAAA game that hardly anyone can run won’t happen.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      5 hours ago

      Why is the steam machine not going to be subject to the same costs? Why then would we believe that valve will just eat that?

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 hours ago

        The assumption is that Valve made their procurement deals before the sudden price hikes, in which case the costs might actually be sane until the deal runs out and they need to renegotiate prices.

        • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          2 hours ago

          Steam already rakes in cash due to being in a dominant market position on pc. Selling at a loss doesn’t get them much.

        • reev@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          3 hours ago

          Its not happening. Selling a PC just isn’t the same as selling a console that can basically “just” play games.

    • recursive_recursion@piefed.caOPEnglish
      15·
      6 hours ago

      It’s an interesting scenario.

      I’d posit that the possibility mostly depends on the aquisition of RAM by Valve before the memory market implosion.

      If Valve is able to successfully sell Steam Machines then other SIs and manufacturers might revisit the gaming market.

      Based on Micron’s action of exiting the consumer market (by killing off their Crucial division) I’d imagine that most manufaturers are considering doing the same as the demand from AI hyperscalers has become obnoxiously enticing for most corporate entities.