Let me check between my couch cushions…
No thanks, going to stick with my gaming PC I got like 4 years ago.
My 7900 xtx must last forever.
If I’m paying that much for a device, I damned well better have root access. I’m done buying machines that big corpos control.
I’ll bet they do this like a phone plan. Bundle the console with GamePass, and give folks a 3 year contract that is broken into a combined monthly payment for the cloud service and a hardware payment plan.
they did that with the previous Xbox,called it the all access pass. It was the unit combined with gamepads ult which you had for the duration of the two or three-year payment plan I understand their thought process on it because it does do a good job at forcing the consumer to have a subscription they normally wouldn’t have, but in reality, the only thing it did was make it so I didn’t purchase any actual games for the unit, so when their overpriced subscription finally ran out, I had no reason to continue using the console, and it’s basically collected dust since because all of the games I would have purchased, I had already played via Game Pass Ultimate, and I had no hard copy games to play.
To be fair, it would’ve helped if they had compelling games worth playing. There was a brief minute when X / S users were feasting, but a lot of the studios MS bought turned into dud factories.
It’s okay by the time its released us regular people won’t be allowed to exist.
6 years ago I would have said that was nuts, but 6 years ago I bought 32GB of DDR5 for $100… now the same sticks are $500+, so I feel like this is just the new normal and I’m just going to go back to my retro systems with carts and systems I actually own.
My Sega Genesis still works like a charm, and humans still make new games for it occasionally
And then you plug in your Everdrive and a new world opens up!
Looks like console gaming is just admitting it’s strategy is to soak their shrinking player base for as much as possible before they collapse.
Signs that the corporations look at the video game market as no longer a growth market but a mature market.
“No point in trying to bring more people into the market since exponential growth can’t be achieved. Time to milk the players for every dollar they have.” -Some Video Game executive.
And the indies and AA’s will rise from the ashes
No thanks I’m good I’m not gamer anymore.
Retro is where it’s at
“Retro is where it’s at” is just the polite way of saying the current model is broken. You’re not disagreeing with me. You’re agreeing and pretending it’s a different argument.
I think they were making a related statement rather than directly challenging your argument. Similar if someone says “modern Windows sucks” and the reply is “Linux is where it’s at”
The “old people ruin the fun” line only works if the critique is wrong. Games you don’t own, 100GB downloads, forced online, and unfinished launches at full price isn’t “fun.” It’s just the current business model. Pointing that out doesn’t make someone old. It makes the people defending it sound like they’re allergic to basic ownership. Keep the SpongeBob meme though. It’s doing more work than the argument.
That’s only if you only play ‘AAA’ corporate lowest common denominator slop.
LMAO
No discs, no sale.
The people demand UMDs!
Does it massage my balls as well for that price or…
They could charge 12 dollars, I’m still not buying it.
I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar!
For $1 though? I might. Disable updates, keep it offline, wait for the first jailbreak and then do whatever you want with the hardware
If people pay that I will scream into a pillow.
Without a disc drive as well. Nah, I’m good
oh people are going to buy the shit out of this. Guaranteed. We can all boycott here, I know I’m not going to buy one, but Microsoft don’t care. Want to know what Microsoft sees?
- Sells well? Hooray profit, let’s give everything back to the shareholders
- Flops? Let’s close Xbox and lay everyone off, we just have an excuse now.
It’s a win win for them. Personally I think most people are going to happily line up at the slop line and eat up.
