Except if you had done any research into the matter you would know that the blame doesn't rest solely on AI data centres.

RAM manufacturers simply refuse to increase production to meet demand of everyone, including the public..

People with ancient hardware had lots of opportunities to upgrade when DDR4 was dirt cheap, DDR5 had been reasonable for a while. Now even SSDs are like double the cost what they were only some months ago.

People are upgrading to older Zen 3 chips on a platform with no upgrade path now too just because DDR4 is cheaper than DDR5 but it's all risen anyway. RAM can have cheap cycles and expensive cycles, but that's what happens when people wait forever to upgrade, if you upgrade every 3-4 years you get a nice boost and avoid this issue since you can wait it out with good hardware.

Don't thanks ai. This all just propaganda and they have a agenda. You may think asus is a company but really elite owns it. We all know that

I think that’s just an extra benefit for the companies that are pushing cloud gaming. The simple reality is that there is a limited supply of memory, and it’s all being consumed by data centers.

Gaming doesn't have to die but gamers have to actually stand up and stop supporting the crazy prices. Stop supporting Nvidia. Don't buy their cards. Don't buy the consoles/GPUs/memory at the inflated prices. AI speculation will only take this bubble so far. When it pops leave them standing there.

I mean, you can get game installers and save them to backup hard drives to save indefinitely. You can also dump ROMs from your own collection of console games and keep those forever too. Which can last even longer than physical discs or cartridges if you ensure you're keeping backups saved.

I still blame Steam for killing off physical games, just my opinion.

I'm selling most of mine since they're basically pointless owning now, and many of them aren't worth that much anyway. And I mean PC only.

The older ones that are Steam activated might as well just be thrown in the bin... Almost, unless you have a slow/limited net connection and really need it for a reinstall.

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm