Submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-deck-completely-out-of-stock-in-the-us-canada-and-asia/
GPU shortage of 2018
Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions
NFT craze
And now Altman’s bullshit. All I want is to tinker with computers, learning about their inner-workings, the science behind them and play games. Why do profit-driver enterprises always have ruin our hobbies? Just so we can produced slop content to make the internet more bloated than it is already? Is the worth the water depletion and the environmental destruction?
If all you want to do is learn how they work then you should stop pining for new hardware. Go learn on an old AM3 or LGA 1155 system, stuff generally works the same.
Because hyperscalers can buy multiple orders of magnitude more of anything consumers can buy collectively. And they won’t complain, and if their shit breaks they’ll just buy 100,000 pallets-worth more. Consumers have reviews, thoughts, drama and will never have the margins hyperscalers can have.
Thank anti-antitrust, Wall St for this. I’m genuinely depressed at the state of personal computing, I see a future of thin clients and renting compute as a genuinely possible future.
Because they’re releasing a new one?
Probably because ram prices have gotten high enough that they cannot price the console at a reasonable price.
ram prices have gotten high enough that they cannot price the console
If that was true, then anything that uses RAM would be following a similar theme.
glad i can’t stand handheld gaming
glad i can’t stand handheld gaming
Genuine question; if you don’t like handheld gaming… Then why are you responding to a specific handheld gaming community?
To troll and ragebait?
If you can find out how, you could probably block this entire community. Its going to pretty much exclusively handheld gaming in here.
This community now has Steam Frame and Steam Machine content.
Tell us where the evil handheld people touched you.
the evil handheld people
His sock?
Then sit down and play.
“QUIT HAVING FUN”
Handheld gaming using 15W, VS my laptop using 100W, VS my desktop using 600W.
I have been using the steam deck daily since I am not concerned to the grid at all.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s not good. There’s zero chance they’ll just drop a new one before the other stuff is out. Either they can’t manufacture them at the current price point any more, or they were caught out by increasing demand, which is likely seven by the current hardware piece increases.