A new leak claims that a Half-Life 3 announcement might have been delayed due to the Steam Machine price. According to the insider, Valve is still trying to determine the console’s cost due to skyrocketing hardware component prices, such as RAM.
if valve is waiting for ram price to come down then steam machine won’t be released until 2028…
It won’t ever be released, prices are never coming back down
Lets have hope, if the AI bubble bursts prices will go down.
The US government has a financial vested interest in the AI bubble. They will artificially keep the bubble going. The AI bubble collapses when American society and government collapses.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
The United States has less and less influence on the world every day.
If it bursts the ram will be on graphic card in a warehouse somewhere. We still will need to ramp back up consumer production I assume.
Or they keep the prices up because consumers got used to them.
I don’t think I can get used to $1000 64 GB Ram.
Are they using the same ICs in the AI modules as they are in DIMMs?
If yes, then we can still hope for some level of a 2nd hand market, which may at least manage to be lower than the max at that point.
Not the same chips, but ddr5, gddr7, and hbm2 are made off the same wafers in the same plants. The issue is allocation in wafer and production time skewing towards the higher-margin items. DDR5 additionally is being made more into the server ecc variant, which companies are buying in droves for cost-efficient MOE inference.
Well, the server ECC variant is still pretty useful for desktop workloads. Just make sure AMD always supports it in the next generations. If it’s still a DIMM, then it can be sold right away.
GDDR7, again, if the chip has the required pins as in GPUs, then GPU manufacturers can simply buy them, test them for a few hours maybe, and pop them in their lineups with a bit of re-calculation of traces (in case the exact pinout differs). Of course you get some re-soldering damage, but there’s not much you can do about it. On the other hand, if the GDDR7 is in GPUs already, most the companies would require is to alter the firmwares a bit and sell refurbished units.
HBM2. Seems like it is possible to get slottable modules with HBM2. Pretty sure some industrious people in China will find a good use for them. Perhaps with RISC V processors?
And the AI specialised units shouldn’t be fully useless either. Remember the cancer studies case?
It is still useful computing ability that can be used well by those who know how.
I just want Gabe Newell to get up on stage and be like “Y’all DO realize we’ve already made like 7 Half Lifes, right? But you morons are obsessed with the number 3, so here you go, you fucking sheep”
Pretty bad luck on the timing for Steam Machine. Hope Valve can still pull it off, but not sure they’re going to be able to hit a price point where it’s worth buying.
Half-Life 3 being ruines by tech bros wasn’t in my bingo card but I’m not surprised at this point.
Hatred towards tech bros somehow increased even higher.
Good
Tech Bros ruin everything 🤷♀️
Game journalists need to hit a quota; quick, start a HL3 rumor for clicks!
My default assumption at this point is that HL3 is not real, and this is all a cope.
Nice
X Doubt
lol
It is kind of funny how the title says one thing, and then the very next sentence says loljk, just the announcement, which has obviously zero things in common with development.
Give it another week and the ram for the steam machine will cost more than the whole steam machine the day it was announced.
A few weeks ago journalists said that complete systems will not be affected short term because OEMs order RAM and SSDs a year in advance.
So what is it?
It is a Vice article. It has the journalistic credibility of a dirty wet wipe.
Edit: Lol, the source is an off the cuff remark of Mike Straw on a podcast. The same Dude has been teasing this news of an alleged leak since November and produced not a single shred of evidence while being an asshat on xitter about it at the same time. This is not the first time this guy speculates over future games and is taken out of context by fans.
You won’t be able to order the next batch unless you charge the increase in the first as you won’t have the funds.
Just because a journalist says something doesn’t mean it’s even remotely true.
Basic economics.
It’ll depend on the futures contracts. They’ll have price clauses and, get-out clauses , resale clauses and stuff, so it’ll come down to lawyering.
It’s unlikely that journos know the contract details. Buy clearly any OEM without a futures contract already in place does not have access to low prices.
And any OEM with cheap stock and contractual freedom to resell would seriously consider parting out and selling off stock at the windfall price.
HL3 announcement before GTA VI release?
Oh yeah, hardware prices are what’s preventing HL3 from coming out. Sure.
Suckers
Bundle it with Star Citizen
And Beyond Good & Evil 2.
