Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"

The greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

HDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

It is starting here, too. In Germany you just can get the 1TB OLED Model, the rest is sold out.

Billionaires stole all our stuff with taxpayer money and will now sell it back in the form of nuclear autocomplete

shit, I just checked the US store, and every single model is gone. All sold out. Nothing avail.

WTF I hate AI SOOOOO much. Moreso I hate that the corrupt markets are being corrupted even more by the billionaire class. This is not normal market stuff happening here.

WD said it's entire 2026 stock of hdd's is all gone already. We're 6 weeks in out of 52. I was going to build a new home media plex server next year with a steam machine and rack mounted array with new WD Reds, but if this keeps going, I doubt I'll be able to afford to. WD Reds will be the cost of a new car by then. All I can do is randomly go whisper into my current machine with the old reds in it: "please don't die"

im investing in guillotine stocks.

check ebay. HOLY SHITBALLS. used lcd models going for almost $600 usd, used oleds going for nearly $900 usd.

W. T. FFFFFFFF.......................... 😡🤬

Everyone is suffering just so dozens of companies continue to re-do the very same mass scale copyright infringement, AKA AI.

Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

Imagine Blu-Ray & archival disks go out of stock before CPUs or GPUs.

Quoting: fabertaweThe greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

It feels this is the build-up to these huge cooperations you see in the sci-fi movies or games that have become so huge, control everything and no governments controls them anymore

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Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

Imagine Blu-Ray & archival disks go out of stock before CPUs or GPUs.

It'll happen in due time since Sony is already starting to discontinue making Blu-ray machines and others will eventually follow. Before you know it, Blu-Ray & archival disks sill start to go away.

^ I mean, with all the fuckery going on left and right nowadays, this is so low on the scale. I would say this is actually the work of normal market forces ... in that nobody has optical drives / players anymore. There just isn't demand for them. For my 85 yr old father who just upgraded his home theater I asked him if he wanted a blu ray player for his new tv and he just said "no thanks, youtube tv for locals, and the other normal streaming apps are all we need, we don't know how to control our blu ray machine anyway"

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Quoting: fabertaweThe greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

It feels this is the build-up to these huge cooperations you see in the sci-fi movies or games that have become so huge, control everything and no governments controls them anymore

Wasn't that the whole point of the dystopian futures depicted in the cyberpunk genre in novels? The huge megacorporations dominating society. I'm thinking of William Gibson (whom I've sadly never read), Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, etc. And then there are all the films too. A lot of these authors had the imagination to foresee what seems to be coming about now.

Wikipedia sums it up nicely: to"Themes typical of a dystopian society include: complete control over the people in a society through the use of propaganda and police state tactics, heavy censorship of information or denial of free thought, worship of an unattainable goal, the complete loss of individuality, and heavy enforcement of conformity."

^ man alive.

if you put together that quote with the 14 fundamental goals of fascism, well ......... OUCH. I mean. Dudes and Dudettes: we're there. Like ....... right now.

When does the next episode of The Running Man come on?

Quoting: Jarmer^ I mean, with all the fuckery going on left and right nowadays, this is so low on the scale. I would say this is actually the work of normal market forces ... in that nobody has optical drives / players anymore. There just isn't demand for them. For my 85 yr old father who just upgraded his home theater I asked him if he wanted a blu ray player for his new tv and he just said "no thanks, youtube tv for locals, and the other normal streaming apps are all we need, we don't know how to control our blu ray machine anyway"

There's decades of discs sold, so once the big players exit someone who can make those numbers work can snatch up the enthusiasts, I think. Sort like what happened to music players, perhaps, so acceptable to good, and maybe even premium quality Chinese hardware. And those are arguably easier to replace since everyone has a DAP replacement in their hand or pocket right now. Another half a dozen in the drawer, not to mention the laptop, probably the smart TV and so on.

We'll see. The current market contraction is bound to leave a vacuum in any event. It'd be anomalous if literally no one tried to step in.