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> When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now. But the memory and storage shortages
by dgrin91 8mo ago
> When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now. But the memory and storage shortages you've likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing (especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame).
Oof.... sounds like they are all going to be $$$. That sucks and really steals the thunder from the steam machine. Gaming HW is going to suck for many years.
- InitialLastName 8mo ago> Gaming HW is going to suck for many years. Not just gaming hardware, everything where the electronics are a predominant part of the unit cost (read: all gadgets) is going to be seeing a big crunch in the next ~2 years (optimistically). Approximately 100% of RAM manufacturing capacity on Earth has been reallocated to feed the slop machines; anything consumers get is effectively a production cast-off.
- xbmcuser 8mo agoHopefully China catches up in node size and crashes the market for ram and SSD.
- kikkia 8mo agohttps://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260204PD210/market-dram-nand-cxmt-ddr4.html https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260204PD210/market-dram-na... Doesn't sound likely
- xbmcuser 8mo agoYes thats why I said China needs to reach parity on node size once they do then production will ramp up. Currently they are behind so just supplying to local captured China market and not competing for market share outside China.