damn. valve is at the mercy of industry players that dwarf them to such an extent they just have to deal with whatever they're being charged for access to the market?

that sounds rough. can't imagine what that's like

https://kotaku.com/valve-says-the-companies-making-ram-give-them-a-price-and-if-they-say-no-they-never-talk-to-us-again-2000709575

@eniko All of that to release a piece of hardware from 2018 that barely runs modern games. And I highly doubt it was designed for retro enthusiasts and lowpoly indie games.

Not for this price.

@0x0961h @eniko What world are ya'll living in where the specs on that machine are "barely able to run modern games"!? That thing MASSIVELY outpaces my gaming PC and I can play brand new games at medium graphics. I really feel like the high-end gaming enthusiast crowd is WAY out of touch with how many "oh, it's only got 6 5Ghz cores? Pah" style comments I've heard. Sounds so much like the "it's a banana, what could it cost, $10?" comments...
@Binks @eniko Watch the videos with analysis, this thing barely can run Cyberpunk and it's 6 years old game.