Epic CEO Sweeney: AI causes memory and storage prices to soar, game industry faces second crash
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Source: IT Home · Published 2026-09-05
Summary
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said in an interview with Edge magazine that the game industry is experiencing its worst crash since the Atari shock of 1983, as the AI and data center investment boom drives up component prices, with memory and storage prices quadrupling and hardware supply chains expected to remain in shortage for three years.
Bubble analysis
This news shows the scale of the AI investment boom is so large that it drives up component prices and squeezes other industries. It reflects strong AI capex but does not directly provide evidence of an AI bubble; it is a side effect of the investment boom.
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