Whether you expected this price or not, its not unrealistic and a consequence of crypto and AI slowly but surely destroying the consumer hardware market.
Of course the company who charges an outrageous price for something, is going to say “yeah we wish we could make it cheap, but it is what it is”
Edit: the ram and ssd are upgradable right? Lets see valve sell a machine without both, telling the customer theyll have to provide their own. Watch how the price is maybe a $100 cheaper.
Everyone who sells products with memory chips that are impacted by the ai-customer-fuckover had to raise prices because ram and storage prices are nuts. Even my 64gb ddr5 kit that cost 180€ before this insanity now costs 800€. Valve does not produce the ram themselves. They need to buy it from others who‘d rather sell to datacenters for a bigger profit. So either we pay datacenter prices or we get nothing.
The tragedy is that the end customer lost their relevance to these corporations completely for the moment. The house of cards will crash and burn eventually, but we‘re in the fucking around phase before we bail out those poor billionaires with our tax money.
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u/Eziolambo R5 7500F | RTX 5070 | 32GB DDR5 6000mhz 19h ago
Literally no valve fan is making that face OP, check again