console gaming – Rounding Off Infinity

Cheap RAM Was the Anomaly, Not the Rule

Consumer DIY ram prices peaked in 2018, and then fell to all-time lows, rising in 2020 and then stabilizing up to about 2022, remaining steady ever since. the current sticker shock in 2025/26 is more about feeling disrupted after a historical period of unprecedented value, but these prices, or rather the super-cycle of consumer DIYContinue reading “Cheap RAM Was the Anomaly, Not the Rule”

Adapt or Game Less: Notes from the Priced-Out Frontier [from My Gaming Diary – Gamedate 78738.1]

I wrote at length on BlueSky this morning about all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth I have been doing over the Nintendo Switch 2. The hand-wringing. Agonizing. It is much the same as I have done over the iPad Pro. And again two times over now about GPUs. And I realized this afternoonContinue reading “Adapt or Game Less: Notes from the Priced-Out Frontier [from My Gaming Diary – Gamedate 78738.1]”