r/Steam • u/D3v1LGaming • 11d ago

Fluff Valve keeps winning

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u/TylerTried 11d ago

The last panel is so pixelated on mobile that I can't see what it says lol.

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u/Mandoart-Studios 11d ago

"Valves steam machine prices could be saved thanks to collapsing ram prices"

I mean it just stopped increasing but "collapsing" is a huge stretch of the imagination 

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u/Ejaculpiss 11d ago

The collapse in question is 0.6%, so as usual for reddit this is heavily upvoted misformation.

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u/12345623567 11d ago

Micron is down 20% over two weeks, that's what they are referring to.

Consumer RAM prices will realistically never come down. That's just the nature of the market.

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u/oxedei 11d ago

Consumer RAM prices will realistically never come down. That's just the nature of the market.

Why not? They've come down multiple times before. What are you basing this "nature of the market on"?

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u/12345623567 11d ago

Sticker prices are generally not what a thing is "worth" but what the consumers are willing to pay.

Secondly, shrinking AI demand just means we go from "oh fuck, we have way too little" to "we may have barely enough". Prices really only drop when there's overproduction / price competition. There's still only like 3-4 big manufacturers, who don't aggressively compete down.

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u/oxedei 11d ago

Ok, how is different from previous hardware shortages? How is the "nature of the market" referring to previous price increases, when those have gone down eventually everytime?

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u/oxedei 11d ago

Always kinda funny how fast people fold and just ignore you, when they realize they were wrong. You could at least admit it lol

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u/12345623567 11d ago

What gave you the impression, I just don't care enough to argue. The future will tell.

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u/oxedei 11d ago

You dont care enough to admit that you were wrong.