Thanks to diminishing returns, the need for a new hardware is minimal anyways. Look how long it took for developers to leave the PS4 and even Xbox One behind. Increasing prices just ensures more people stickimg to the hardware they already have. Top of the line GPU's were always overpriced rubbish as far as I'm concerned.

But I have to wonder how much nVidia is charging Nintendo. I hope I'm wrong but I get the feeling that Nintendo is screwed and may find themselves forced to sell hardware at a loss. Hopefully they have a long term contract in place.

Shit like this is partly why I want China to evolve as fast as possible in computing. I think someone's going to try to fill the hole nVidia and potentially AMD are leaving, and small/medium size companies (including RAM manufacturers) would love that.

Fook nvidia, y'all should've boycotted them decades ago!
And fook amd for following them corrupt greedy bastards when they could've taken over as the best corp for computing hardware

I do wonder that this means for the Switch 2, since it is Nvidia..

As from streaming/renting games. It will be the future, not just for PC but consoles as well. Nintendo already locks their classics behind a rental service. Sony does the same. That was always the first step, which is why I emulate. I am not supporting rental services and justifying because reasons. Especially when I bought LttP (as an example) on the SNES, Wii and paid to upgrade on the Wii U.

Once gaming moves to rentals, I will be playing my collection of games via Steam, Switch 2 and emulation.

Sony and Nintendo are in fine positions to whether this storm. The current hardware can keep going til the beginning of next decade and although not ideal they can wipe out loses on hardware with 1 huge first party title each year without even taking into account all the service and 3rd party revenue.

I do hope they both gone in that direction instead of making the consoles inaccessibly expensive. From what I read sony has been stockpiling RAM which could maybe help the next 2 years remain more stable memory wise but I think think the consumer PC market will definitely be rocked harder than console, which may make consoles more appealing. Maybe something MS should act on that and make their upcoming PC boxes more bespoke.

I am happy with my 6600XT, marketing does not affect me.

Giga lame. Prices have gone up so much these past 10 years. I'm glad I got myself a beefy PC last year, but I'm not optimistic about the future.

PS6 will be delayed or more or less cancelled. It is about time Sony considered going ARM anyway.

Either Consoles releases will be delayed or they will make a deal with amd and more people will buy consoles due to the expensive pcs on the market that period.

Can't say I follow AI market much (apart from what's directly tied to my job), just extrapolating from previous trends and articles like this one:

https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/inference-is-splitting-in-two-nvidias-usd20b-groq-bet-explains-its-next-act

Anyhow, I expect if nVidia and AMD ditch consumer GPU market (for the most part), that there will be other players who will jump in.

Can you imagine if gaming goes fully streaming? No more owning GPUs, just renting frames. Ultra settings locked behind a monthly fee, your game shuts off mid boss fight because your sub renewed late, and you get hit with "Sorry, you're on the Free Tier. Ultra settings unlock at $29.99 a month." At this rate GPUs won’t be affordable hardware anymore, they'll be a subscription instead. Can you imagine Microsoft doing this? Oh wait… and did Google try it already with Stadia?