Evercade is a line of retro gaming devices that play classic games off of flash-based cartridges. The devices run anywhere from $70 to $200, with the plastic cartridges selling for $30. It’s a pricing model aimed at enthusiasts for old games who want a more physical connection to what they’re playing and collecting. But the company behind Evercade, Blaze <a href="https://comicvibe.com/stars-shine-bright-iconic-performances-and-record-profits-in-<a href="https://comicvibe.com/entertainment-news-today-live-updates-on-july-20-2026-jiostar-bets-big-on-bigg-boss-salman-khan-mohanlal-sourav-ganguly-other-mega-stars-headline-six-language-expansion/” title=”Entertainment News Today LIVE Updates on July 20, 2026: JioStar bets big on Bigg Boss: Salman Khan, Mohanlal, Sourav Ganguly & other mega stars headline six-language expansion”>entertainment-news/” title=”Stars Shine Bright: Iconic Performances and Record Profits in Entertainment News”>Entertainment, says it’s had to spend all its cash on hoarding components years in advance as RAMageddon sends prices spiraling.
“We bought as much as we could in terms of cash flow,” CEO Andrew Byatt recently told FRVR. “We bought as many cartridge chips, as much RAM, and as much processors and all the rest of it.” The company has already bought everything it thinks it might need for the next year, too. “We’ve gone ahead and we’ve bought the majority of the cartridge chips [for] 2027,” he said. “We’ve just done that… but on the hardware side we’re going to be waiting and seeing and buying as we come towards the right periods. We’ve gone very early on cartridges as that’s kind of the lifeblood of the business.”
The cartridges vary in memory size from 128MB up to 1GB. Blaze Entertainment tries to keep the pricing consistent across all of the Evercade-supported games regardless. “The 512 [megabytes] are more expensive [now] than the 1GB chips were…and the 1GB ones are very, very expensive right now,” Byatt said. RAMageddon hasn’t just affected memory prices either. The company told FRVR that every part of the supply chain it relies on for components has been sent into chaos.
While companies were previously waiting to see if RAM prices might eventually even out, they’re now expecting things to keep getting worse over the next few years as AI companies continue racing one another to improve models and build out data centers. “Honestly, it’s still getting worse,” one Valve engineer recently said. “Just in case people are not aware. What people are seeing on retail shelves right now, from our observations, is lagging what we’re seeing from a bulk supply by at least three to six months.”
Byatt pointed out that Evercade was born during the pandemic, a similar period of inflated prices and unprecedented supply chain disruption. According to Byatt, this is much worse. “It’s bigger than anything else that’s happened,” he said. “It’s bigger than [when] we had massive freight costs.” The CEO added, “We didn’t sort of have a life before covid pricing to compare against. So we were in 2020 onwards, but this is vastly different to everything else we’ve ever seen, actually.”
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