> imagine that these devices or services can no longer procure RAM, SSD or HDD

Why would I imagine something so far out from what will realistically happen?

Again, a lot of doom and gloom over very unrealistic scenarios. Where are you even getting this from, YouTube channels?

Of course if there is no RAM or flash-storage at all available, eventually hardware will be unfeasible. But when we've experienced these sort of things before, it eventually restores to "normal" prices, and there absolutely nothing pointing to what we're experiencing now to get even worse, if anything it's already stabilized.

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ErneX a day ago | parent | next [-]

Valve had to delay a bunch of new products already. They also had to effectively discontinue the non-OLED Steam Deck due to the increased prices.

https://www.theverge.com/games/874196/valve-steam-machine-fr...

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embedding-shape a day ago | parent [-]

Yeah, which shows that Valve don't think "these devices or services can no longer procure RAM, SSD or HDD" is actually what'll happen in reality, because then they'd have to cancel the hardware fully. Instead, they're delaying it.

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ErneX 21 hours ago | parent [-]

With a likely price increase.

Regarding OP, I don’t think they implied this will last forever, but is definitely concerning.

	▲	embedding-shape 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I jumped into the discussion because of this hyperbole: > to destroy everything we know in tech Valve (temporarily) increasing the pricing of yet-to-launch hardware wasn't where I thought we'd land at with my first comment, I somehow also have the feeling that that wasn't what GP had in mind either,.

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iso1631 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You don't have to look too far back in history -- look at the supply squeeze during covid, or even just during the Suez closure by the Evergiven.

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wiredpancake 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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