The price of RAM has been rising exponentially. As AI companies hoard stock for whatever schemes they have planned, regular consumers and manufacturers are facing significant price increases. There's an expectation that these increases could cause the Xbox Series X to rise in price again, with a stick of RAM now costing more than an entire PS5.
These stock issues are also evidently impacting game development. In a new interview with us here at TheGamer, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke said we've never had prices like this, and it's forcing the studio to do optimizations it didn't want to be doing at this stage of development.
When discussing the pressures the company faces when releasing a game in early access, such as audience expectations, Vincke told us, "Interestingly, another [issue Larian is facing] is really the price of RAM and the price of SSDs and f**k, man. It's like, literally, we've never had it like this."
He continued, "It kind of ruins all of your projections that you had about it because normally, you know the curves, and you can protect the hardware. It's gonna be an interesting one. It means that most likely, we already need to do...
