[babelfish]

What does this have to do with the steam deck?

[doubled112]

PC hardware like the Steam Deck is more expensive due to demand from AI hype.

[aquova]

Where do you think all the supply that the Steam Deck was previously leveraging went?

[mrhottakes]

The insides of the Steam Deck have a lot of the same bits and bobbins and thingamajigs that go inside AI data centers.

[yieldcrv]

RAM is expensive and there is scarcity in getting a supply of it = all consumer electronics will cost more