The ram in the system went from 200 dollars to 600 dollars. Not increasing the price of the console by 400 dollars would have meant scrapping it instead.
There is literally no choice, the ram would have been sold either way, just to someone else instead.
Valve and its ceo decides the price of their products. Considering valve is a corporation making billions and the ceo owns an entire fleet of mega yachts, arguing that they are directly to blame for the high prices doesn’t sound stupid at all to me. If they are literally swimming in billions their profit cut is high.
No Gabe, you fucked up with these price hikes. Don’t blame the supplier.
The ram in the system went from 200 dollars to 600 dollars. Not increasing the price of the console by 400 dollars would have meant scrapping it instead.
There is literally no choice, the ram would have been sold either way, just to someone else instead.
Are you…stupid?
Valve and its ceo decides the price of their products. Considering valve is a corporation making billions and the ceo owns an entire fleet of mega yachts, arguing that they are directly to blame for the high prices doesn’t sound stupid at all to me. If they are literally swimming in billions their profit cut is high.
Really? The cost of components getting jacked by a supplier is their fault?
If you really are going to make that claim, you simultaneously lose all credibility by admitting that you are literally arguing in bad faith.
Shut the fuck up.
Yes.
…in the universe you live in, is there cheap ram?
can I send you money for some please?
Private yachts aren’t cheap either. To buy an entire fleet of these you need to boost your profits as high as you can.
Yeah that’s annoying and all, but it doesn’t fundamentally change how capitalism works.
So they should fund your gaming habit?
The component price changed, what was Gabe supposed to do, start manufacturing its own RAM?
That would be amazing timeline
They are swimming in billions, they could easily lower the profits they make and give it away for cheaper but that’s not their goal.
What do you think the margins are on this thing? You know how much the components cost, it’s not hard to figure out about how much it costs them.
Profit margins on consoles are razor thin already, and that’s before the skyrocketing price of components.
I’m sorry if that means your mom can’t afford to get it for your birthday now, but it is what it is unfortunately.
Dreaming about Pipe RAM by Valve.
I’m sorry, do you have any awareness of the world past your nose?
Yep. You are owed everything, after all. You deserve it.
He really shouldn’t have dumped trillions of private and public money into AI. Thanks Gabe /s