Valve has announced a substantial price increase for its Steam Deck OLED models, citing "rising memory and storage costs" as the reason. …
… "Unfortunately, the recent surge in memory and other component prices, and the changes in the market environment, including trends in the foreign exchange market and the price of oil, are all factors that we anticipate will continue over the medium to long term. …
… We are working hard to rethink what that console model can look like, not in an exclusionary way, but in an additive way, so that as we take a look at this crisis, which may have acute effects for 2-2.5 years." This suggests Microsoft and the Xbox division are now actively crunching numbers and loo… …
… Said Dring: "You've got rapidly rising cost-of-living challenges driven further by the war in Iran, mixed with costly component prices impacting the pricing of these machines. …
… Newcomers to Xbox Game Pass Premium will cost £1, or the equivalent pricing tier in your local currency, for the first 14 days. …