Apologies for yet another downbeat post about PC component shortages. But you don't often get insight from as significant a player—and one with quite the same track record for a certain brand of transparency—as Valve. It turns out the problem for the company regarding memory and storage for the new Steam Machine hasn't just been cost, but just getting hold of supply at all is a major challenge.
If you haven't already watched Andy and Jacob's recent interview with Valve's Steam Machine reps Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat, may I suggest you get that done pronto, it's well worth a watch. But among other takeaways from the chat is insight into just how acute the memory and storage supply crisis has become.
You might have thought that it's just a pricing issue...
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