I project Microsoft can lick my taint. They bought up all the studies, shut down most of them, cancelled all the good games, raised prices, forced AI into everything, want to abandon physical media and lock us in to their digital store and have a monopoly on pricing… And they still can’t release a console at a reasonable price. 🖕 Microsoft has abandoned gamers, let them suffer when the AI bubble pops.
While a $1,200 starting price would be historically high for the game console market, even accounting for inflation, it also reflects a new normal: The slowdown in Moore’s Law and AI-driven component shortages mean cutting-edge gaming hardware just isn’t as cheap as it used to be. This year, the Steam Machine broke the $1,000 starting price, while the 2-year-old technology in the PlayStation 5 Pro is now going for $900, and the 6-year-old Xbox Series X now starts at $750.
It’s super-duper awesome that they were kind enough to pass all the cost down to us.
Moores law hasn’t been a thing for over a decade. It’s just the AI industry consuming all the compute
Also, Moore’s law wouldn’t be. areason for prices of existing hardware to go up
and apparently MSFT has more than $80b in GPUS sitting idling in warehouses since they haven’t built (if they ever do) the data centers to run them.
Trickle-down, right?
Oh, it was supposed to be the gains…?
“Xbox is partnering with Klarna…”
I’m only afraid that Gamers will actually fucking buy it, and Microsoft (and others) will learn that gamers will keep buying consolee for almost 2k dollars, and then future consoles will never go down in price. Just like it happened with graphics cards, when Nvidia learned that gamers would buy 2x Titan class gpus (which were not supposed to be a gaming card), and then discovered they could sell a 90 class for 1500+ dollars (and going up with each generation) and the fuckers would still gladly buy it, and that they would also still buy cards with prices inflated at 200~300% values during the crypto boom.
My 7900 xtx must last forever.
I’m still rocking a Pascal GPU from Nvidia. Shit’s not even officially supported driver-wise anymore, but it’s only getting more dear to me, especially with all the news.
My 7800xt is fine. What worries me is my 5600x.
I feel like it’s starting to show its age.
At least you could potentially upgrade to an am4 3d chip without needing a new motherboard.
Who the fuck has money anymore. Trump can get fucked!
Fuck yourself to death, Microsoft.
I predict it gets canceled.
I suppose if the AI bubble pops, and memory and CPU prices crash, then maybe it will happen. But, that’s going to be very hard on the entire economy, so maybe it will be canceled for that reason, instead.
No thanks, going to stick with my gaming PC I got like 4 years ago.
Yeah, my steam deck still works fine for most games. And when steam deck 2 comes along, I’ll be ordering one immediately.
AI companies ruin the RAM and video card market, so no one runs 200GB models for free.
This ruins the new-game market on PC and consoles.
AI allows people to spin copies of games
Next up,
All consoles fail
All console makers stop letting people have binaries
Gaming as a service AGAINAI companies ruin the RAM and video card market, so no one runs 200GB models for free.
No, AI companies ruin the RAM, Storage, and video market so no one can compute independently, and they all have to stream cloud services which can be monitored by AI, gatekept without the possibility of piracy (or first sale doctorine), unhackable/unmodable, and rented forever.
This is way bigger than gaming. What happens when they can predict markets? What happens when they can move markets? When journalists get silenced, when inconvenient truths are hidden?
Why wouldn’t they when we are so dependent on it?
They’ve been able to move markets for years. High frequency trading bots have caused several flash crashes.
One guy did it on his own from his house in London
You can buy a cheap guitar for about £100. Beats Guitar Hero
Or you could turn to a life of crime. Beats Grand Theft Auto
Goat Simulator fans please contact the furry community for advice
Living in a multi-gamer household currently with nine gamers. We would be looking at around $15k to get everyone the new Xbox when it comes out!?
I can’t even anymore.
Even without that price tag, I think at 9 gamers in one household, it might be time to learn the concept of sharing
We all like to play together, but yes we share 4 xboxes currently and also have a couple of desktops, non-gaming laptops and tablets. We will use phones/tablets for jackbox games so we can all play together. We also like to play Fortnite and we will rotate players.
Just keep playing what you are playing now. It does not get worse just because a new overpriced console comes out
Oh I know. I am a patient gamer, I was just postulating what it would cost if we “upgraded”.
Honestly, I am probably moving towards building more PCs rather than updating to the next Xbox.
At that price (which will probably be closer to 2k CAD) I think my console gaming life will be over. It was a good run from NES to now.
Steam deck is looking more and more appealing or just build my own computer again
My OG 64GB LED Steam Deck (bought for under $300 years ago) handles 90% of my gaming. I upgraded it to a 2tb drive a couple years ago and it was well worth it.
I’d pull the trigger sooner rather than later, I don’t see prices coming down anytime soon.
