Fuck yourself to death, Microsoft.
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.
Good luck, they barely sell the current one at a fourth of that price, wonder how many dozens can sell of this DRM machine
Oh don’t worry. Fanboizz will still buy it and will say “This changes Everything!”
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
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.
Things must be tough because consoles are typically sold at a loss. Then again with the current steam machine success not selling at cost maybe they are planning on trying the same?
The way hardware prices have been increasing, this might still be a price point that has them selling at a loss by the time 2028 rolls around, so there’s that.
I’m having a hard time imagining not being able to build a PC from last Gen parts for $1800 that can’t run games fairly well.
Atp just buy a computer
Project helix will be a computer with a locked bootloader and gaming only os
I will not consider it a computer if you cannot change freely the OS (even tho it is technically), Macs might have more freedom than that shit…
I’d say that is the distinction between a computer and a personal computer.
The avarage person does not think about the difference so i just remove the term computer directly
I predict it gets canceled.
I suppose if the AI bubble pops, and memory and CPU prices crash, then maybe it will happen. But, that’s going to be very hard on the entire economy, so maybe it will be canceled for that reason, instead.
Who the fuck has money anymore. Trump can get fucked!
Guess i’m done with video games for the next…forever
Streets of rage 2, Chrono trigger, Mario 64, burger time, Tekken 3, burnout paradise all could probably use a higher play time before whatever the next m$ slop shooter cash shop they publish or anti consumer hardware
So fucking glad I built a PC in 2023.
How about I just seed every piece of IP they release
Targeting Gen X
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.
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.
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
Trickle-down, right?
Oh, it was supposed to be the gains…?
