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.
I still hate that I bought the series x, it’s an over priced piece of garbage
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.
So fucking glad I built a PC in 2023.
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?
What I’m looking forward to seeing is how many scalpers that will buy it on the first day.
It would be kind of awesome if the scalpers paid the ridiculous sticker price for these, and then nobody bought them from the scalpers because nobody actually wants the goddamn thing.
That’s what will happen. But it’s likely they will also think 2k for a digital brick might not be the best thing to do with how expensive everything is.
And how no effort will be made to stop.them.
I think the effort won’t be necessary. We’re already discussing how 1200-1800(2000 after tax) is sounding insane. I think the argument for how a N64 costing $250 adjusted for inflation has lost it’s value. We didn’t have cellphones, internet plans (ok maybe aol), fees at every corner, a mountain of subscriptions, and whatever else is going on now. And there’s no used game stores now–I mean for these digital bricks.
So it’s time to sit back and eat some popcorn.
How about I just seed every piece of IP they release
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.
Looks like console gaming is just admitting its 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.
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.
No discs, no sale.
The people demand UMDs!
Let me check between my couch cushions…
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.
They could charge 12 dollars, I’m still not buying it.
