The entirety of 2026 has been marked by continually rising hardware prices, and now, according to the latest Steam Hardware Survey, the average gaming PC is starting to embrace older hardware once more.
Latest Steam Hardware Survey Shows Just How Hard PC Gamers Have Been Hit by AI
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