[mathgeek]

> I'm sure it doesn't help that people continue to buy things at this price.

Implicitly, but that's blaming the consumer who has no or few equivalent choices. Purchasing RAM is not like choosing between Coke and Pepsi. A better analogy is that when a hurricane is coming or a natural disaster has already hit, it doesn't help that people will purchase food and fuel at any price.

[ItsYan]

People can choose to use online services to game or other various ones for compute. The demand is surely more elastic than food and fuel after a natural disaster. The consumer can also forego any purchases.

[ChoGGi]

Instead of buying local hardware, I should give money to data centres? Aren't data centres the ones ramping up prices for everyone else?

[gib444]

A Steam Deck is as vital as food or fuel...?

[mathgeek]

I feel like a broken record with this sometimes, but things compared in an analogy are generally dissimilar while sharing some similarities. No one claimed what you are asking.