u/Less-Huckleberry-737

Hi,

My question is the title.

Thanks.

EDIT: I decided to let ChatGpt rephrase my post to fit the theme of it.

2015 Shield owner here.

Eleven years ago nobody imagined this timeline would end up looking like... this.

For years this sub begged for a real Shield Gen 2—not the recycled 2017/2019 refreshes. Every time I said NVIDIA would never build a true successor, I got buried in downvotes.

Now it's June 28, 2026.

AI is vacuuming up silicon, memory, and engineering talent. Everyone keeps waiting for prices to "go back to normal."

Normal has been permanently discontinued.

Keep telling yourselves GPUs, RAM, SSDs, and phones will get cheap again. Hope is free. Hardware isn't.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe next year 16GB RAM is dirt cheap again.

Or maybe in five years you're paying premium prices for yesterday's hardware while renting your computer from the cloud because ownership became a luxury.

Either way, you'll remember posts like this.

Optimism is renewable. Inventory isn't.