Lol have fun with that. Gaming PC’s are dead at these prices, nobody normal is going to be forking out these prices. Only people that are terrible with money would think that’s acceptable.
You ain’t wrong, at all. But I’m also putting my foot down with that horseshit as well, no more of that subscription BS to be found here either.
I installed a new garage door opener a few months ago, and when I realized it was asking me for a subscription, I had a category 5 meltdown. I’ve had it with that shit, I’ve been cutting those left right and centre. It’ll be a cold day in hell when I pay a subscription fee to play games.
I’m not in favor of this bleak future. I don’t know why we can’t just buy well-made things and fix them ourselves when they are broken. Rather, I know why but I don’t know why we allow it to be this way.
I’m just feeling dark and my only hope is that people see my bleak predictions for the future and act now to stop it.
You simply don’t need a high end PC for gaming anymore.
You mean older gaming PCs can still run most games. I’m sure there will be holdouts and I’m sure lots of smaller, crunchy indie games will run just fine.
Unfortunately, computers are built from common sets of parts. If RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and GPU costs are doubling, then those who can only afford a low or mid-range PC suddenly… can’t. So the consumer market collapses. Nobody will bother making replacement parts for your old gaming PC, and when it comes to new there will be only expensive PCs, ludicrously expensive gaming PCs, and the real goal - thin clients. The Chromebook has already become the default consumer PC. They’re just coming for a different segment now.
More accurately, they don’t fucking care and just want more money. Right now, they’re betting on AI but when that bubble bursts, cloud “PCs” is what they’ll fall back on since all the hardware and, therefore, all the compute will have moved to the cloud and the market for old-style personal computers will have been blown to shit. Recurrent user spending is reliable and makes investors happy. SAS all the things.
This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, AI bubble manufactured as part of a push to further centralize computing in general. Lot of perverse incentive to do so, hugely beneficial to those currently in power
Gaming isn’t marketing to casual consumers arguably either. Pay top dollar to buy some product that’s not even at alpha stage when it comes to these AAA games, no thanks.
I’ve got a backlog that’s so gosh darn long anyways, this is all perversely actually a good thing in my life. I asked my dad if he wanted a PS5 for his 70th, and he was like nah, me and the PS4 are good. I need to be more like him.
Glad I upgraded beginning of 2025, with the amount of unfinished games and the number of older games I’ve never played, I’ll either ride it out till gaming on PC isn’t a thing or prices will get better…hah prices never really come down as we see with Nvidia pricing. Good thing there’s a ton of games on Steam I haven’t bought and even more I’ve played less than a couple hours.
I built one in 2020, right when COVID was kicking in. I refreshed it when my daughter was born, because I knew I’d be spending a lot more time closer to home. It’s still AM4 but it’s pretty stout, so it’s going to be seeing out the decade at this point. Maybe even more, as I just don’t game as much anymore, and I’m just straight up not paying these prices.
Lol have fun with that. Gaming PC’s are dead at these prices, nobody normal is going to be forking out these prices. Only people that are terrible with money would think that’s acceptable.
That’s the plan. You’ll subscribe to your cloud gaming service and you’ll fucking like it you disgusting peasant. Own nothing, rent everything.
You ain’t wrong, at all. But I’m also putting my foot down with that horseshit as well, no more of that subscription BS to be found here either.
I installed a new garage door opener a few months ago, and when I realized it was asking me for a subscription, I had a category 5 meltdown. I’ve had it with that shit, I’ve been cutting those left right and centre. It’ll be a cold day in hell when I pay a subscription fee to play games.
I’m not in favor of this bleak future. I don’t know why we can’t just buy well-made things and fix them ourselves when they are broken. Rather, I know why but I don’t know why we allow it to be this way.
I’m just feeling dark and my only hope is that people see my bleak predictions for the future and act now to stop it.
People see next month’s crippling rent payment barreling down at them and thats about it.
If that’s the plan, then it’s not a very good plan. You simply don’t need a high end PC for gaming anymore.
You mean older gaming PCs can still run most games. I’m sure there will be holdouts and I’m sure lots of smaller, crunchy indie games will run just fine.
Unfortunately, computers are built from common sets of parts. If RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and GPU costs are doubling, then those who can only afford a low or mid-range PC suddenly… can’t. So the consumer market collapses. Nobody will bother making replacement parts for your old gaming PC, and when it comes to new there will be only expensive PCs, ludicrously expensive gaming PCs, and the real goal - thin clients. The Chromebook has already become the default consumer PC. They’re just coming for a different segment now.
More accurately, they don’t fucking care and just want more money. Right now, they’re betting on AI but when that bubble bursts, cloud “PCs” is what they’ll fall back on since all the hardware and, therefore, all the compute will have moved to the cloud and the market for old-style personal computers will have been blown to shit. Recurrent user spending is reliable and makes investors happy. SAS all the things.
This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, AI bubble manufactured as part of a push to further centralize computing in general. Lot of perverse incentive to do so, hugely beneficial to those currently in power
Yep, subscriptions all around. You can tell it’s bad when even Fox News is arguing against it!
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/6-kick-butt-financial-resolutions-you-should-make-today-protect-tomorrow
They’re not marketing to casual consumers anymore. Their new target is just data centers.
Thankfully most of the top games of 2025 run great on a 4060.
Yeah, I think Indiana Jones got a bit thorny with 8GB VRAM but I think that got patched to work better.
Gaming isn’t marketing to casual consumers arguably either. Pay top dollar to buy some product that’s not even at alpha stage when it comes to these AAA games, no thanks.
I’ve got a backlog that’s so gosh darn long anyways, this is all perversely actually a good thing in my life. I asked my dad if he wanted a PS5 for his 70th, and he was like nah, me and the PS4 are good. I need to be more like him.
Glad I upgraded beginning of 2025, with the amount of unfinished games and the number of older games I’ve never played, I’ll either ride it out till gaming on PC isn’t a thing or prices will get better…hah prices never really come down as we see with Nvidia pricing. Good thing there’s a ton of games on Steam I haven’t bought and even more I’ve played less than a couple hours.
I built one in 2020, right when COVID was kicking in. I refreshed it when my daughter was born, because I knew I’d be spending a lot more time closer to home. It’s still AM4 but it’s pretty stout, so it’s going to be seeing out the decade at this point. Maybe even more, as I just don’t game as much anymore, and I’m just straight up not paying these prices.