• Nvidia and Micron are making emotional appeals to consumers while PC users express frustration with big AI companies’ practices and self-serving motives.
  • Memory vendors predict DRAM and SSD shortages lasting until mid-2027, while new tariffs on advanced computing chips and potential Steam Machine pricing over $1,000 add to consumer concerns.
  • The article highlights how corporations use emotional messaging to mask financial interests, advising consumers to remain skeptical of such appeals.
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    6 hours ago

    I really don’t know, man. I want to believe that but at the same time I think it will simply be a mediocre situation.

    Cheap prices mean a lot of people upgrade and the game companies increase performance demands.

    Big prices mean people often can’t even get into gaming.

    Consumerism is the issue in the first case and greedy companies is the issue in the second… Idk…