Xbox maker is also apparently planning its own gaming handheld for next year.
  • alphabethunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    vor 3 Stunden

    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.

  • TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    vor 8 Stunden

    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.

  • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
    31·
    vor 13 Stunden

    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.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      10·
      vor 11 Stunden

      Moores law hasn’t been a thing for over a decade. It’s just the AI industry consuming all the compute

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        vor 11 Stunden

        Also, Moore’s law wouldn’t be. areason for prices of existing hardware to go up

    • sanzky@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      vor 11 Stunden

      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.

  • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
    34·
    vor 9 Stunden

    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.

    • MrPnut@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      vor 1 Stunde

      I don’t think I could ever be done with video games but I’m done supporting the (current) video game economy besides supporting the second hand market. Luckily for me I don’t care at all about cutting edge stuff and I prefer to play PSX, PS2, and N64 games. There are still so many classics from those consoles in my backlog I haven’t even got to yet.

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      vor 8 Stunden

      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

  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    vor 7 Stunden

    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?

    • hraegsvelmir@ani.socialEnglish
      1·
      vor 11 Minuten

      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.

  • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    vor 13 Stunden

    What I’m looking forward to seeing is how many scalpers that will buy it on the first day.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      vor 12 Stunden

      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.

      • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        vor 12 Stunden

        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.

      • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        vor 12 Stunden

        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.

  • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    vor 13 Stunden

    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

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      vor 30 Minuten

      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.