Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that's a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold out.

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[–] 105 points 4 months ago (15 children)

a steal if you consider tomorrow's prices

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  • [–] 106 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Im going to steal because I considered tomorrow prices

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Only if AI continues to ramp up.

    We're seeing a lot of cracks. I don't know if any bubbles are going to burst, but the hype is far less common than the frustration these days.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I would say it depends who you ask. Nvidia is all up for the hype. https://isaiprofitable.com/

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Fuck NVidia. Wouldn't use them with Linux anyway.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    That is ok for NVidia, they don't really want to sell to end users anymore. AI datacenters give way higher margins

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    When that falls through (and it will), they'll try to come crawling back to retail.

    Don't let them.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    The broader a customer base, the less solidarity there is.

    Nvidia has shit on consumer goodwill in the past, they never get punished for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    If the other manufacturers had any sense whatsoever, they'd be using this opportunity to take over Nvidia's market share. Leave them no space to come back to once the bottom falls out on AI datacenters.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    On the other hand, I've seen a lot of stories of people getting addicted to the "agentic harnesses" and personally (and happily) blowing through hundreds to thousands of dollars/month. I've seen people write articles about how their $200/month subscriptions are such a good deal, lol. Companies are forcing their employees to use AI at insane costs. Nearly every software engineering job posting mentions using AI tools as a requirement. Anthropic's revenue is set to double this quarter and be its first profitable quarter (likely using a lot of accounting tricks).

    I'm really curious if this AI industry can self-perpetuate itself with stupidity and greed indefinitely as everything becomes shittier and unreliable, and civilization slowly crumbles.

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