I’m job searching right now and can’t really justify the Steam Controller purchase this week. Before getting laid off and RAM-pocalypse, the plan was to buy a Steam Machine and controller when it was going to release early 2026, but clearly that plan has changed a bit.
The FOMO is hitting after the previews this week! Do we think we need to worry about Steam Controller availability later in the year?
I use a DualSense Edge for my PS5, and either an old PS controller when docked or my 8BitDo SN30 when I travel for the Steam Deck. If I had the Steam Machine I’d buy it instantly, but who knows when that will happen and how much it’ll cost.
It would be like the 2007 financial/housing crisis.
You could get amazingly huge and quality houses, cars, stores, etc for dirt cheap but that’s because a metric ton of people were layed off and had to sell their assets to make ends meet.
The AI bubble is compounded by the fact that it’s primarily propped up by ~1 trillion USD in private credit, which for all intents and purposes is basically just the same system as CDOs which caused the 2007/8 crash.
If AI blows, all that debt comes back null, and since all other major investments are based on speculation and multiplied debt obligations, the economy collapses (again).
Granted, if you’re lucky enough to not fall to the effects of such a crash, components will be dirt cheap and great time to buy.
But if you’re layed off, you’re looking at potentially a year+ of unemployment, in which case it won’t matter if you can get a 5090 for $300 because you’ll be more concerned with surviving without an income.