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[โ€“] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Idk the situation of a single company buying up 40% of RAM supply is pretty unprecedented.

[โ€“] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

Maybe, but we've had like at least a supply chain disruption a year since 2020. Also they've spoken about lessons learned about making their own hardware and dealing with supply chains thanks to the knuckles/index.

It's been mentioned before but if they've got their prices locked in, they may be worried about being too cheap and having their stock grabbed by corps and resellers, rather than steam users.