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Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026 (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Valve’s Steam Machine finally has a price: a whopping $1,049 for the 512GB configuration or $1,349 for the 2TB version. And those are without bundled controllers, which drive up the cost more.

The prices are so high in part because Valve isn’t subsidizing the hardware, and the company has already indicated that the component crisis forced it to reconsider its initial pricing plans. In an interview with the YouTube channel Gamers Nexus, Valve engineers discussed the reality of sourcing RAM in 2026, with take-it-or-leave-it prices as memory and other components remain in short supply, from only a few vendors like Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix.

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Valve, of course, isn’t the only company in a bind over memory shortages, as the crunch is forcing many hardware makers to make significant pricing changes. Even Apple CEO Tim Cook is warning of incoming price hikes for iPhones, Macs, and other devices. And the RAM crunch isn’t projected to get better anytime soon.

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[–] Akrenion@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This way they can rent put computer instead of you owning the means to do so yourself. This is what happens when you price out consumers. You bind them to your terms with leverage to pay for your past Investments payed by future earnings.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I mean, how long does a consumer CPU last? 10 years? 15? Datacenter measures don't count, since they always push 100% load at max feasible temperature. And RAM holds even longer. And DDR3 is good enough for general computing, even with all the bloat.

[–] Akrenion@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I am gaming on ddr4 RAM and an rtx2070 from 2015. However CPU loads are high running a lot of games. I got a few friends who want to upgrade their motherboard but can not reasonably afford ddr5. Most of my non-gaming acquaintances do not own anything more than a phone or tablet anymore.

[–] Exec@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The RTX 2070 came out in late 2018 though

[–] Akrenion@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

The cpu was older. Mixed that up sorry.

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