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All Steam Deck models out of stock in U.S., with fears that memory shortage will prompt price increase
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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The shortage was temporary, the price increase was not.
Any reason why it should be different with RAM?
Also the GPU shortage hasn't gone anywhere as shown by the 50xx cards release and with Nvidia saying it will not even release new GPUs in 2026, it's only getting worse.
RAM is easier to make and there are way more fabs. It should be better.
Who in their right mind will sell it cheaper than the competitors?
Someone who's not an asshole. Also, of you sold it for cheaper you'd make bank because everyone would buy from you instead of your asshole competitors.
That's not how capitalism works. What will happen in this case, bigger players that don't want to lower their prices will run you out of business using a bunch of dirty tactics, bankrupt you twice over, and continue selling shit for as much as they can get away with.
Capitalism might be a good idea on paper, but this naive shit never actually works on practice, every time they build it, instead of self-regulating free market working for people, it devolves into this hell where practically monopolies divide the market and squeese everyone dry
I never said that was how capitalism worked. Nothing in this comment contradicts anything I said.
It kind of looks like you didn't understand my response. Do you want me to simplify it for you, or do you want to give it another pass?
It sounds like you didn't understand mine. Instead of insulting me do you want to fuck off?
Exactly my expectation, sadly. The crypto/NFT rush and then the AI rush has shown GPU manufactures, Nvidia especially, that people will still pay for GPUs, even at insane prices. So of course being a publicly held mega-Corp, they will keep the high prices and set it as the new baseline. Same to a lesser degree with AMD.
Ram will follow a similar pattern. Temporary extreme market conditions will create scarcity, prices spike to unheard of levels, desperate consoomers will still buy out what supply they can get, and signal to the companies selling it that the new high prices are actually totally fine.
The days of mid tier GPUs being $200-$350 are long gone. So are the days of 64Gb kits of mid-teir RAM for $200
And no, the market isn't going to adjust in a good way for gamers with devs and studios writing more efficient code that runs high quality graphics on lower end hardware. We will get the dystopia option, no more consumer PC parts, rent a pre-built to use at a huge markup, or you pay for an online subscription to a cloud gaming platform. Either way, it enshitifies.