If this is the price… Maybe would be nice to have a way to install SteamOS on the console. Or better install any Linux so I can use as a working station and a gaming gig.
“Xbox is partnering with Klarna…”
With these sorts told prices being rumoured I’m not sure how viable this next generation is going to be.
Disposable incomes are dwindling, future economic prospects look…uncertain to put it positively. Parents especially sleek unlikely to spend 4 figures on a console when their kids already have phones.
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 AGAINNo thanks, going to stick with my gaming PC I got like 4 years ago.
Let me check between my couch cushions…
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.
but a lot of the studios MS bought turned into dud factories. but MS turned the studios they bought into dud factories.
–ftfy
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.
Just went back to check on two sticks of 32GB I bought in 2024 for $215. The same two sticks are listed for $1600.
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.
It’s not just the economic model that’s pushing people to retro, it’s the creative direction as well.
For some of us the kinds of games we like just aren’t made much now. Which has been partially influenced by monetisation but there’s been a shift in taste too.
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.
Does it massage my balls as well for that price or…
No discs, no sale.
The people demand UMDs!
