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Ah, yeah. $1100 will still buy you a significantly better gaming rig, and even better if you're willing to assemble it yourself.

I guess if you're holding out though, maybe the Deck will scratch the "buy new gaming shiny object" itch, and play games reasonable well at it's native resolutions, but if you have $1100 and it's not getting you what you want in a gaming rig, the Deck doesn't fill the gap.

Also I'm not confident that GPU cards will became easier and cheaper to find for a while. Someone that is related to the general chip industry told me 1.5 years. Until then constrained supply will probably make demand even more frantic.

Heck, just on cars alone: I just traded in a car for 2x the value it was listed at about 6 months ago. It was 12 years old and I knew I'd need a new car sometime in the next 1-3 years, and a new car today has massively more safety features (I have kids to worry about that for too) so I wasn't going to hold out and hope the used market went even higher.

And if car manufacturers whose electronics don't need the latest fab methods have these bottlenecks, I don't see the high end chip market getting much better, especially with Apple & Samsung eating any capacity TSMC can provide.