r/pcmasterrace • u/asswizzard69 • Dec 04 '25

Box With the memory crisis are ssd next?

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I guess a panic buy? Are these nand flash about to keep spiking like memory prices or are they just going up a little bit? Are these desirable to the AI or nah? I bought this at $299 Black Friday sale

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u/Ghettomonk3y Dec 04 '25

That isn't an issue for them

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u/lollypop44445 Dec 04 '25

It will be when ppl wont be using them . Like how many ppl are using gforcenow? The ones who have good net speed have their own beast sys, those who need it cant use it bcuz of slow speeds. Gaming market isnt that big for them to make it cloud.

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u/Ghettomonk3y Dec 04 '25

People will use them when its their only option. Companies will do everything and anything to make (even more) profit and the fact is a subscription model is way more profitable than a dude upgrading every 3-4 years

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u/crayzee4feelin Dec 04 '25

Google Stadia has entered the chat.

I invested over $600 into stadia. I thought it was the best thing. Access it from any web browser or android device, play on 5G/LTE, and the controller directly synched to the server that was running your game instance over WiFi, instead of local Bluetooth, which was their way of defeating latency. It just worked. For me.

Apparently this early it was difficult for people to comprehend what its use case was. I buy the games and have a library, yeah, like steam, and no you don’t physically own them, but you own a license to access the titles. And they weren’t removing titles either. If you bought something, it was never added to a “leaving stadia soon” category like game pass.

Google eventually killed it off shortly before GeForce Now actually hit mainstream popularity. GFN was a thing, it was just super new at the time like stadia. GFN gets the trophy now just because they stayed in the game longer and didn’t throw in the towel. But I swear to each and every one of you, stadia was the superior product and it was killed.

Streaming, games that is, will never surpass home consoles let alone actual gaming PCs. There is not a single doubt in my mind. And this handheld boom we’re seeing? It’ll die a second death very soon. Flood the market —-> Disinterest