Why does anyone believe they're actually announcing or releasing half life 3
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2025
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because it doesn't make sense that they haven't done so already and they can't just keep getting away with not making sense
They can’t keep getting away with it!!
I want to believe.
I think Valve fucked itself over with the Steam Machine considering the recent hardware prices, probably their only choice at this point is eat shit and sell it under value.
I find it hard to believe they hadn't secured contracts for most of their components before announcing the damn thing.
Could be, I don't know how contracts on this scale work, if they secured years worth of components then sure but if it's just for the first few batches they're kinda fucked.
Idk the situation of a single company buying up 40% of RAM supply is pretty unprecedented.
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.
Latest cope
Steam machine being connected to HL3 doesn't even make sense. It's not a product targeted at any mass market.
Assuming this is true (which as a HL3 rumor veteran I am skeptical ), at least it gives the team extra time to polish?
Not a good sign.
You heard it here first, AI killed Half Life 3, still think you "love" AI??
A lot of PC enthusiasts and media people have been speculating that the series of high tech, industrial over consumption of high end electronics has hurt the consumers, but I think its just going to kill the consumer level electronic industries. From graphics cards, RAM and SSD/HDD all experiencing supply shocks, this generation of PCs consoles and handhelds, even higher end phones are going to balloon in prices and begin to become more and more exclusive to bourgeois class interests. I know AI is a bubble, but I think it will never be allowed to pop because theres nothing to really pop it. At the very least it seems like theres still a lot of gas in the tank and will last for another 2-3 years or so. Even in the wake of a bubble burst, the electronics industries are so tied to the AI agent corporations that theres no way they dont also go under, and the only spoils that we might see will be the second hand mostly burnt out electronics liquidated from these corporations. Its not something we could build a new consumer grade industry off of.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-boom-brings-flood-debt-200000578.html this seems pretty 2008 to me
I'm aware of a lot of the really weird market behaviors right now, all the evidence is saying that the bubble could pop at any moment, that any jitter too severe will send it tumbling down 
But the VIBES are telling me its going to last a while, I remember the weird market volatility from 2018 to 2020 and how the dow lost 10% one day but it was just fine. Nobody seemed to want a market panic. So there just wasnt one, and then COVID happened.