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Richard Devine

Rising hardware costs, publisher incentives, and platform strategy shifts all point to 2026 becoming the year cloud gaming takes over — whether players want it or not

Two hands holding a gaming handheld.

It's tough to be a PC gamer. In the last few years we've had the pandemic and the ensuing chip shortages, we've had crypto bros scooping up every GPU that wasn't nailed down, and now, AI needs for all the RAM.

RAM is going up in price astronomically, and, unfortunately, it's a key component of any PC. But it's not worth buying when it costs what it does right now.

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