Comment on Analysts Say Video Game Hardware Isn't Getting Cheaper Anytime Soon
Rothe@piefed.social 3 weeks 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.
It’s almost like if everyone would quit blowing their load over every game reveal and preordering themselves into oblivion and quit chasing shiny new things all the time and hoarding…well it’s almost like the old trad rules of supply and demand would almost, dare I say, kick in?
Alas.
berty@feddit.org 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s actually what’s keeping this whole AI bubble propped up. And what’s making it get more bubbly. I’ll extend you hardware on margin but only if it’s my hardware and I’ll just keep doing that over and over until the musical chairs stop. You buy hardware that you don’t pay for and I sell it to you for imaginary money and the investors reward us for that with money thats mostly debt and that’s what keeps people dancing around and around and around…
berty@feddit.org 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
In the future we’ll all be renting terminals while all processing is done on their hardware