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Due to reduced demand, we at insert asshole corpo trash here have decided to exit the consumer market and focus on our cloud game streaming service and a continued effort in the AI space.
Yep this is me. I'll make do. It's gonna suck for them but I got more important priorities right now like making sure I can afford food and not go into debt. All these companies can fuckin pound sand.
Not to mention the AAA games landscape kinda sucks now. You need loooong development time and the customers need reasonably expensive PC components to run the newest games. Those games keep getting more expensive while launching in bad shape (in many instances this is fixed on the launch day or shortly after, but not always).
Meanwhile Steam data shows that the vast majority of players (~70%, IIRC) spend most of their time playing games a decade old or more. You don’t need an expensive computer to do that, and those games are often free or available on steep discount.
Got my Steam Deck and old-ish gaming pc. I can last a decade easy. Last thing I bought was another 8TB HHD for my NAS so they can forget about me paying for media too.
I’ve still been mostly happy with my 3080 / 5800X and was going to hold off on any upgrades until a more complete rebuild, but seeing the writing on the wall I decided to pick up a 9070XT while prices are lower just to make sure I can really stretch out this platform as much as possible.
Statistically speaking, RAM is the most likely part to fail and I’d rather be in the market for DDR4 than DDR5 if that happens.
I can imagine at least a few people are in a similar boat to me. I intended to upgrade this year and had even saved up for it - but the insane price hikes have completely killed any justification I could muster, so now I'm just waiting until something breaks.
I'm still running my GTX1060.. Carried me through BG3, what more can I ask for?
this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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