In recent months there has been a startling amount of information coming from multiple technology manufacturing industries and gaming industries alike, the stark reality is that AI Companies are causing an economic and technological shortfall that will ultimately lead to broken dreams, loss of jobs, and loss of access to affordable gaming.
So how did this happen? The long short of it is that AI Companies are working around the clock to build large Server farms that facilitate information networks and nodes that work in cooperation with one another to create vast networks of AI Programs working together for multiple goals. With everything working with and along side AI large amounts of servers and other hardware is needed to ensure that the amount of people needing information from the AI Programs are met as well as increased in order to facility AI growth. To that end, the AI Companies are spending billions in hardware upgrades and purchases to create these AI Farms.
Much like the Bitcoin and other Crypto Currency mining boom that happened not too long ago, people and companies were started with the idea of putting together rigs to mine the currency as a means to make money. This required rigs designed around certain hardware requirements and most of that was around the RAM and Graphics Cards used to process the information as they were upgradeable and more cost efficient than buying increase CPU power from the Mother board resources and the Processor itself.
AI Farms are doing the same thing now. They are purchasing large amounts of RAM and Graphics Cards in order to mass produce AI Rigs that work in tangent with one another to produce results and get people to subscribe to their AI Network in order to generate revenue for themselves and their shareholders. This means that companies like NVIDA and Radeon are selling large amounts of these items.
It has just came out that one such producer of RAM and Graphics Cards has announced it will be cutting its domestic and exported production cards down 40% and instead focus on using those resources in AI Farming and AI investment. In doing so its graphics card that was first released just a year ago for around 800$ went up to 2000$ just recently is now expected to hit a staggering 5000$. They say this is to offset the cost of their loss of production...a loss that they brought on themselves.
So what does this mean for us as Gamers? Well to be blunt...its not good. As I stated earlier we have already seen Steam push back its release dates on its 3 new items, the Steam Controller, Steam Frame, and the Steam Box / Machine. It has also recently had to stop selling its Steam Deck because it lacks the needed parts to build them for sale. As this continues we will also see the price of gaming Computers increase to a point that the average person will not be able to afford a new computer or to even upgrade their current ones.
There have already been several services I've seen where you can 'Rent to Own' a gaming Computer or to simply 'Rent' a Computer paying a monthly fee to use the computer and I'm sure there are even Leases available so after so long you can turn it in and get the latest one. But that isn't what gaming is about is it?
Other systems such as Xbox and PlayStations are affected by these changes as well as they are also hitting shortages of hardware needed to produce their current models. Though with Xbox's new CEO coming from Microsoft's Window's AI Division who knows what the future of Xbox will hold now, some people are even saying that soon the entire gaming division at Microsoft will soon come to an end as they will be integrated into the AI Division. Rumors are even saying that there is a possibility that there will soon be games created 100% by AI and will not need any assistance other than those that will need to have understanding of the Prompt Language to use for the AI's.
With hardware shortages, "Rental" and "Leasing" Computers, AI Farming and Networks slowly becoming the new "IN" thing, it is telling that the Gaming Market is going to take a large hit and if the lack of resources continue and the prices of everything keeps going up soon, the idea of gaming will become a thing of the past...and all of those people that still have their classical systems will be sitting pretty with the rest of us wishing we had of hung on to that old Nintendo or Sega.
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