The Steam Machine costs upwards of $1000. PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles are hundreds of dollars more expensive now than they were at launch almost six years ago. Even the Nintendo Switch 2 is getting a price increase. But surely hardware costs won't keep ballooning, right? Surely, at some point, hopefully, the RAMpocalypse will come to an end and we can all go back to comfortably buying pieces of plastic-metal to play games on.
Well, that's not about to happen any time soon, according to electronics firm Lenovo. As reported on by ComputerBase, the company held a presentation at the ISC 2026 where executive director Martin Hiegl apparently told the audience that we're now in a new normal for DRAM and NAND prices.
