Comment on Analysts Say Video Game Hardware Isn't Getting Cheaper Anytime Soon
Rothe@piefed.social 1 day ago
It is not just pricing, it is also that they will become less and less available in the future. All by design of the hardware manufacturers, who wants you to rent computers, and not own your own personal one.
They are creating artificial scarcity by simply stopping production of consumergrade hardware. Prices will not ease after 2029 unless the bubble has popped and those companies gone under, because that would undermine their plans. On the contrary new consumer grade hardware will simply cease to exist.
berty@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Why would hardware manufacturers want you to rent compute? They want to sell hardware, that’s what they do. Problem is AI tech bros are buying everything they can so that consumer fall short.
ugo@feddit.it 23 hours ago
Because it’s far easier to sell millions of units to a single buyer, logistically, compared to thousands of units to thousands of buyers.
If everybody is forced to rent hardware time, hardware manufacturers will still need to sell their hardware. But rather than selling it to consumers they will just sell it all to a handful of providers.
berty@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Ok true that. Guess we’re supposed to be happy to be able to buy at least. What a crazy time…
Butterbee@beehaw.org 22 hours ago
They want to sell hardware to businesses where the orders will be large and predictable. Renting the compute to the rest of us is just they avenue to that. They actually don’t care if we have access to compute whatsoever.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
In the future we’ll all be renting terminals while all processing is done on their hardware