Valve warns memory crisis 'still getting worse' as hardware costs climb

Valve, one of the most influential forces in PC gaming, has issued an unusually candid warning: the memory constraints that have long quietly shaped what games can be are not easing — they are deepening. RAM and SSD prices, expected to fall in line with historical patterns, have instead stalled and begun climbing, placing both developers and consumers in an increasingly difficult position. The company's directness signals something rarer than a market forecast — an acknowledgment that the foundational assumption of technological abundance, the belief that hardware always gets cheaper and more