>Effective August 1, 2026, we will be updating prices worldwide. Thprice of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model.https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/25/xbox-console-price-update/Good news for if you wanted to buy a cheap Xbox before GTAVI comes out.
>>741875529I-it's Biden's fault ok?
>>741875529>b-but politics/pol/ is around the corner.
>>741875529>the democrats would have killed the IA train and let the country go into recession under their reign lol
>xboxThey still exist ?
>>741875529i mean technically it's sam altman's fault more than anyonebut yes, if fatboi or his people were more knowledgable or cared more about the subject, something absolutely could be done about this
>>741875431is it really because they cut off russia cause russians produce some resource no one else makes cheaply? Maybe they should just come back to russia
>>741875529Gabe's fault. It's ok to sell consoles at profit now.
>raise prices AGAIN just before the single biggest game launch this generation and probably the next one toowow, the absolute fucking state, if anything they should have reduced the price of the consoles to capitalize on GTA VI, they were guaranteed to shift units lol…LMAO, XBOX, BABY WHAT IS YOU DOIN!!!?!?
>>741875431It's fucking over, XBOX is going to be selling pre-builts next year
>>741876142Get back in the trench, magomedov.
>>741875431>600 bucks for series s>it's a pretty much gtx 1060 machineLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
>>741876364Good thing I just bought a refurbished one for $300
>The article says its going to double by Fall 2027What the FUCK
Who the fuck is buying Xboxes anyways?
>>741875431>800 fucking dollarsSo embarassed they aren't even listing the price
>XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models.>$800 for Xbox Series X>$500 for Xbox Series SWith GTA6 coming out, everyone is going to flock to the PS5.
>>741875431jesas... how can people afford to buy video games but not gasoline?
The Xbox Series X was on sale for $300 like 2 or 3 years ago. It will now be $800. $300 more than the retail MSRP in 2020.
b-but...but...guysthey changed the logoand it's all caps nowi-i thought it was the return of XBOX...Asha said...
I voted for this and I will vote for /ourguy/ again for his third termthis is a small price to pay for what benefits await when AI pays off soon
>>741876627>what benefits await when AI pays offKek, lmao even.
>>741875431>apple raised their prices today>xbox raised their prices todaywhat the fuckwho's next?also it's funny they don't explicitly put the new prices
>>741876525>paid sony marketer didn't get the memo from higher ups yetYou also get another price increase.Hell it's still half a year out, make it two.
>>741876361That's something Adam Koralik keeps saying in multiple videos. I have no idea what he means https://youtu.be/P-7uabBgCfE?si=R1-mcbhD1P53spAD&t=1279
Are they even manufacturing consoles anymore? The shelves at every retailer have been full for years, and there's nothing suggest that they've actually been selling. You could be buying a unit that was made back in 2024.
>Sam Altmanhttps://youtu.be/ODfCVxVLqiE?si=rHM5BNlo3zQM7x_t
honestly if Sony were smart they’d announce a $50 reduction on both console models till the end of November, the sheer number they’d sell would be disgusting
>>741876627bro he's literally not lasting much longer than this termthere is a reason why he and his camp have been suspiciously quiet about the whole third term thing
Crazy to think next gen consoles will actually cost $1200 at this rateGaming is going straight to the shitter. Best thing anyone can do is build a mid tier PC and pirate/emulate entire decades of hidden gems, enough to keep you busy til the day you die
>>741876824I don't think they are, I think they're just increasing the price of their remaining stock in case anyone wants to buy one for GTA 6. Microsoft is so focused on AI, that I'm not sure they'd want to give up millions of sticks on RAM to even release a new console any time soon.
>>741876864Instead today they announce that layoffs from Bungie.
>Problem, anon?
They just trying to make the consoles impossible to afford so people use xcloud/game pass ultimate subscriptions. Got a series x for 583 from Walmart last week which was weird but whatever
That's kinda concerning as a xbox gamer. Third party already skip xbox as is, it would only get worse. We might not even get sales anymore
>>741876414It's over for everything.
>>741876864>if Sony were smartFound the problem with your line of logic.If MS were smart they'd announce a discount right before VI comes out, because a lot of people were still waiting for VI to come out before buying a next gen console. If Sony were smart they'd announce a cheap ass GTAVI bundle. But neither are smart.
Why is this hobby so Jewish all of a sudden?
>>741875431Steam sold a 1000 console that is about the same as the series s so they might as well jack the price
>>741875431RIP gamingthanks "AI"
>Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027well I guess no more bing bing wahoo for me, was a nice hobby while it lasted
>>741877292>all of a sudden
I hate AI.
>>741876824Presumably, they order small volumes at a time to avoid storing millions of unsold units in warehouses, so they naturally have to renegotiate the prices more often than Nintendo/Sony do, that's probably why Nintendo and Sony are able to hold off a little longer on raising console prices. That's why Valve's prices skyrocketed as well
>>741876242microsoft wants to kill xbox
>>741877170not really, just crash everything at this point
>>741875431FUCK YOU XBOX! YOU GOT MY HYPED WITH THE SHOWCASE! I WAS GONNA BUY AN XBOX IN THE FALL BUT NOW IDK. I dont wanna spend fucking $800. I might as well get a new pc. fuck u
Hey wait a second, sony just announced layoffs at bungie and here xbox is saving their ass again with another round of bad news. This can't be a coincidence at this point
Fuck sakes, why does every hobby I like turn to shit?
>>741877170Someone do something.
>AI killed the gaming industry >Tariffs killed musicians We're gonna run out of hobbies because everything is too expensive
>>741877547800$ would get you a weak fucking PC
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>>741875529its a combination of trump and the ai industryyou voted for this though, arent you happy?
>>741875431It's really over, isn't it.
>>741875431fucking lmao. is this the only console gen that got more expensive as time went on?
Is there something after "deader than dead"?
>>741877624>tariffs killed musiciansQRD?
>>741877678no shit. I might as well shell out $1200 for a pc instead of spending $800 on the xbox
>>741877752Yes
>>741877547last chance I suppose walmrt.us/3SzLfoH $573.00
>>741876854hehe based
>>741877775American made instruments are too expensive for most people and then imported ones skyrocketed in price
>>741876889>Crazy to think next gen consoles will actually cost $1200 at this raten-nooooo the ps5 pro costing 1000 means nothing. sony wouldnt fuck me like this theyre my friend
>>741875529You have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Get a fucking life. Stop crying.
Xbox>we're bringing back exclusives!Also Xbox>we're jacking up prices AGAIN so that we sell even fewer consoles
>>741877606I am someone and I will do somethingim gonna go jerk off
Another gen Nintendo is gonna dominate lmao
>>741875767>IARetard.
>>741876541They can't. What youre not understanding is they are increasing the price of unsold stock retroactively in this in hopes of recouping their losses. They also saw sony get a boost so they are hoping for similar results
>>741877871shalom
>>741877909I don't know what's happening man. Asha talked as if she would make xbox cheaper. Wtf is this shit? I guess it was all pr bullshit and she just wants to kill off xbox
Played a blinder if you got a launch one as you can now sell it for double the price.
99.9% of games that aren't Nintendo made are on both Xbox and PlayStation so why do people keep paying more for a PlayStation? I can understand back in the day ps2 exclusives left Xbox in the dust but that's not the case anymore.
>>741875767as opposed to the country going under recession right now?
is there literally any politician or political party running on an anti-AI platform?holy fucking shit, and it’s only going to get worse
>>741876525>ps5 won't raise their prices as well
>mfw bought Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 Slim and Xbox Series X all $100 off on sale clearance before their price increases.I won.
>>741878116I fear we're in too deep now
>>741878030She doesn't have the power to make things cheaper. She's at the mercy of the people above.
>>741877909The fact they are hedging everything on gears in 2026 is laughable.
>>741875529Trump didnt buy 40% of global RAM till 2030
>>741875431>We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model.RIP
>>741876141Microsoft is also to blame they're a part of the AI mafia as well
>>741875431the world is ending
>>741878078mostly because niche japanese games keep skipping xbox. Yes they are niche but there are so many of these it actually affects people's decision
>>741875431>(((Microjeet)))
how do they still need even more components for that shit? havent they built enough data centers by now
>>741875529>prices of everything keep ballooning at insane speed>layoffs en mass because companies can't even afford paying workers a living wage>iran war for a global gas shock we haven't seen half of yet>tariffs on everyone>full removal of any laws holding back AI >pumping billions into AI for datacenter building which is housing bubble 2.0RetardBrainless epsteinclass lemming.
>$800 for a Series XPS5 to follow soon, you'll be paying $1100 for a PS5 Pro, $750 for a PS5, and $650 for a PS5 Digital.
>>741875529Politicians in every nation of every ideology are all in on ai, tell me how anything would have been any different under anybody else that could have been in his positionTell me how none of the blame falls on the leftist leaders of the state where all the tech stuff actually happens
>>741875431I got my series x 2 weeks ago fortunately
>>741878351INFINITE GROWTH FOREVER IS SUSTAINABLE! TRUST ME, IT JUST IS, OK???
>>741878078Best console spec wise plus they have some exclusives. Also GTA IV is probably going to have the majority of players on PS5.
ASHA TELL HIM TO STOPASHA!!!!!!!!!ASHSA TELL YOUR BOSS NUTELLA TO STOP HOARDING FOR AIASHHHAAAAAAAAA
lol you think it's bad now?all the price increases you saw happen this year because of memory shortages?2x soon.
>>741875431>We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model.UPGRADE YOUR PC FUCKING NOW, YOU DON'T HAVE LONG LEFT
>>741878351Every mall will be gutted and turned into a data center. The AI has an insatiable hunger for RAM.
>>741878491And clothing stores.
>>741877571everyone is hiding their bad news behind the gta 6 hype and the end of the fiscal year
>>741878378Still a better deal than a Steam Machine, which is kind of upsetting.
>>741876627>what benefits await when AI pays off soontwo more weeks
>>741875431Jesus Christ, society is fucked
>>741878148Not on the same day pre orders go live for GTA6, that's just asinine.
look everyone just chill the fuck outas soon as the AI breakthrough happens they will immediately reduce prices, probably cheaper than they were ever before, and our wages will have increased exponentially due to the advances the AI revolution will bringjust hold on a little longer, it’ll be worth it
>>741878378$1100 for a remake and GAAS machine.
You voted because you were mad video games were full of politics you don't like. Now you made it so prices are so high you don't get video games at all.
>>741878284This here. They can't do shit about it either. It's not just the Japanese. Some Korean and Chinese either skipped or got timed to a specific platform.
>>741878451>microsoft would rather have the xbox die than give up on their unsustainable AI boner, which after all this time and billions of dollars has not gotten them closer to replacing their entire human workforce with LLMsThey were this close to fucking winning too if they just lowered the prices and/or got Rockstar to announce a GTAVI bundle. These absolute fucking retards.
>>741878270India is going to be genocided harder than the fake holocoast and WW2 will look like nothing compared to it whenever important resources get rarer.
>>741878381yeah, ai is a literal arms race at the moment.
>>741877837I remember like 20 years ago I was shopping around for my first electric guitar, a mexican stratocaster was like $400 while an america one was like $600-800. Today it looks like you can't even get a mexican strat for under $800 and a lot of america ones are around $2000 with only a few models being under $1500That's fucked up
The first man who rises up and blows up a data centre will be remembered as a saint
>>741878694>has not gotten them closerobjectively incorrect
But you "owned the libs" right?
>>741878739>Arms raceagainst who?
why don't they just buy their own RAM manufacturer?
>>741878608I mean xbox might not survive this. I worry for my digital library, if they will go full pc with only play anywhere titles we will lose thousands of games
>>741878765Anon, you forgot your star!
>>741878608the fact that i actually have known people who say stuff like this completely unironically really fucking sucks
>>741878608There's no breakthrough, AI already use what already exists and poorly at that. It's a dice roll and souces can be traced back to some nigger on pleddit with 9000 likes.
>>741876627>this is a small price to pay for what benefits await when AI pays off soonhas no one in your circle of friends lost their job to AI?
>>741878739yep, they even put export controls on claude fable
>>741875431Hadn't they already raised the price? Did they raise it again?
>>741878838china for the us government and every company is trying to ai what google was to search engines.
>>741875603How is it not Biden's fault?
>>741878694Microsoft has wanted Xbox dead for 30 years, but now it's directly in the way of their current objectives. The components and infrastructure they're wasting on Xbox could be used for AI data centers as well.
>>741878948They sure did and it sounds like they'll do it again next year.
>>741878714soon microsoft's buying power will be controlled entirely by indians
>Bought a SEX from a friend's coworker that was about to pawn itPawn shop was going to give him $280, I gave him $330.I think I scammed him.
>>741878963He's not the president.
>>741878765We need them now more than ever
>>741878838China you fucking retard.
Sell xbox branding to SEGA. This is the only way I would accept new owners of xbox, no apple, no google. Don't you even dare
>we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027.holy shit
>>741878950>>741879103Yeah all of those amazing chinese ai models that compete with the exclusively american like, um... hmmm...
>>741878948Previously, both sony and ms raises their services prices.>>741879005Money can be turned to ashes just to send a message. Jews would kill themselves if strikes hit their banks for example.
>>741879104Realistically though, would you buy an Asus Ally X-Box?
>>741879145god she's so hot bros
I fucking hate AI so much it's unreal
>>741879160Chinks are where they are because America sold out to them last century.
>>741879160DeepSeek?
>>741875431I'm glad XBOX announced this ahead of time. It's in accordance with XBOX core tenet #10:>Clarity is kindnessHowever, under these conditions, I don't see how Asha and crew can fulfill XBOX core tenet #3:>Stay rebellious
>make Gears of War: E-Day exclusive to sell more consoles>increase the price of the consoleWhat is even happening? Is Microsoft trying to kill Xbox? Their exclusivity venture won't last long. Wouldn't surprise me if they announce the PS5 port of Gears E-Day soon.
>>741879371burger government insists it was made by just training it on chatgpt so if that premise is true they will literally always be several generations behind us though??
reminder that sam 'good guy' altman went on a trip around the world a couple of years ago and told both the silicon fabs and memory manufacturers to increase their production capacitythe filthy gooks laughed at him and called him a silicon valley podcast brosam tried to save usremember who the real enemy is
>>741879160DeepSeek v4 and GLM 5.2 are already better than most amerifat models, at a fraction of the cost.
suggest me some hobbies that aren't dependent on hardware. I can't take this shit anymore
It’s weird because I’ll check eBay and the series X routinely sells for around $300 bucks with a handful of listings at around 400 just collecting dust. NO ONE wants these things. It’s not even a particularly bad console, there’s just no conceivable reason you would want to buy a series X over a ps5.
>>741879445E-Day will probably have a "Complete Edition" with all the DLC come to PS6 and Switch 2 in a couple of years.
Just preordered my steam machine
>>741879445>Make a game nobody gives a shit about your exclusive
>>741879445Pretty sure the top brass want Xbox gone after Phil put a $100b blackhole on their books of studios they keep having to shut down.
At which point will we finally start seeing burning data centers?
>>741879403I refer you to tenet #4: Progress over Perfection
>>741879403there's something deeply ironic about some corpo nepo hire saying 'stay rebellious'
>>741879403In this age of lies, clarity is an act of rebellion.Obviously, they're going to keep lying. Why wouldn't they?
>>741879445Seeing FF ads on the Xbox and Halo ads on the PS5 is fucking weird. We're past bizarro world with that whole AI bullshit.>9000 ads shilling AI in some capacity on youtube and everywherelmao
>>741879634xbros got all hyped and energized by that announcement
>return to console "exclusives">increase the price of console right afterThis is a great strategy so far
The solution is simple, just starting making PS2 and Xbox original games again until the market settles.
>>741878740can confirm, i got my mexican strat 8 years ago for 400 eurobucks. fender is in the shitter anyway thanks to their retarded lawsuit
lol
>>741879371>>741879541so despite having constant sanctions placed against them and bans on nvidia chips being sold to them they are still competing with the usa despite their consumer electronics market being completely ravaged in the name of AI. lol
>>741879215Asus would just make a PC with no exclusives so unlikely. Any company after microsoft is gonna be a risky endeavor with everyone expecting them to close down like microsoft. For sega I can take that risk. For someone else? No
>>741879515Sandniggers? Their oil is drying up and they'll buy anything if it entertain them. Once that money is gone, they'll go back to exploding randomly.
KEK
>>741879576>switch 2 HAHAHAHA yeah at 20fps and 600p
>>741879456That may be true, but I'm wondering why they're investing so much into Data Centers when distillation is supposed to be much cheaper
>>741879653before the end of the year there'll be at least one
>>741879890Why would you even want one of these? I knew when /v/ shilled them under the pretense of "it's such a heckin good emulation machine" it was the same wii u level of cope.
>>741879547I would recommend old comics if they didn't cost a fortune or weren't even collected
>>741875529You’re not completely wrong, but there’s too many people here with cum brain disease that will always ALWAYS disagree with you no matter what.
>>741879653Molotov cocktails are cheap but data centers are worth millions. Terrorism will be made great again.
>>741879547jacking off>>741879570Better crosscompat with PC, a web browser, retro arch, torrents are a couple for me
>>741875529It is. He could have cracked down on AI stealing ram but no he is invested in Nvidia and Palantir. Japan almost locked up Yuji Naka for insider trading on some shitty ff7 mobile game but the president can directly influence policy and be fine
>>741879570what if there was this huge game that everybody wanted to play and it's also on xbox, and the ps5 keeps announcing price hikes? man it sure would be smart if they put the fucking thing on the discount in that situation so they could make a late comeback
>>741878104barreling towards full collapse, bonds market is trembling while the stock market pretends it's not happening
>>741880026360 backwards compatibility and online plus it can play game pass games and stay with current gen titles. It even has GTA 6 coming to it. Not a bad investment.
>>741880026I would have got one as a 360 upgrade if the thing let me play my discs.
>>741875431These dudes are addicted to bad news, at this point it's just a kink to them.>Ohhh... Tell me I'm dead again Dreamcast Guy Ohhh fuck! Just like that.
>>741879547Sports cards? No that's been ruined Collectible card games? No that's been ruined Board games? No you need friends Work out? LolUhhh
>>741880026for that price emulation machine capable of 4k is insanely good. What are you talking about??? It's nowhere near wii u level of bad
>Series S now same price as Switch 2 Uh oh
yet again having a mid tier PC from before the memory apocalypse and and being a tendie this gen wins
>>741880193read booksyou can download a bunch of shit for free on whatever topic/genre you like if you don't want to buy physical
>>741880212>Playing outdated builds of PC emulators on a system the manufacturer can and eventually did pull the plug on for your bad goy appsYeah great idea
>>741880193learn to create music or draw shit or something idk
>>741879962We are talking about the Switch 2 anon, not the PS5.
This photograph is from November 24, 2023
>>741880426We already talked about how music is too expensive now tooI guess painting is an option
>>741880193>cars Just drag race with cheap Russian cars >cardsA deck of card is 5 bucks.>social board gamesGo to Walmart, it's cheap>working out Get a pull up bar, do push ups, dips and squats at home.
>>741879403*car honk*
>>741880435Nigger, the switch 2 is PS4 pro tier hardware at best while PS5 is an upgrade. Stick to PC or keep being retarded with your bullshit.
>Series X will be $1000 in 2027>7 years after the console launched
>$600 for a series Slol, lmao even
>>741875529It’s his fault and I voted for it. Why? Because I hate gaming and the AAA industry and I want it all to crash and disappear. I want to junk modern console shit and smart phones and stick to early to pre-360 vidya, forums with no faggot normies, and PC games that can run on a shitty desktop running windows xp. We are going back to the golden age of American and it’s called 2006
>Ushers in a golden era of loss leading, consumer-first xbox gaming>Is promptly ignored for years>Gets fired because you are ungrateful traitors>Jeet 5xes the price and lays off everyoneWhy wouldn't you just help him help you?
so how much will Helix cost?
>>741876525It was already obvious Xbox will see no hardware sales from GTA6 but this sealed the deal completely. In a way it makes sense because they raised their prices last year and Sony now followed them. Now it is their turn because prices went up.
>>741880809Going scorched Earth without taking out kikes is fruitless. They'll print more money and pretend that it was a nothingburger all the while the average joe's money lose value.
>>741880950>so how much will Helix cost?more than your first car
>>741879547Unless the industry requires optical lenses for AI murder-drones in the upcoming months, you can get into bird-watching with a single pair of binoculars.
>>741880883>>Ushers in a golden era of loss leading,Under Phil Xbox was the first time profitable. Before the Xbox One under him that shit only burned money, especially during le golden age.
>>741880950IF theres a Helix.
>>741879878the slants, gooks and chinks.they had plenty of time to build new facilities but sat around and did nothingthey're still not doing anything because they'd rather sell less and make more than risk actually building anything
>>741875431is the ps5 or xbox better to get? i literally only want to play gta6 on it as i have a 5090/9950x3d pc build and i feel xbox would be better in terms of the ecosystem, but idk if it's good graphics-wise
>>741875431how much is Project Helix going to cost? $1500?
>>741880358You do have a point to be honest, dev mode is reliant to microsoft services. I bought xbox just to play sonic unleashed before recompiled released so I'm locked in.
discontinuing the 2TB model is the most worrying sign i think for AAA games that keep getting more and more bloated
Expected at this point. The ram crisis has increased the price of the steam machine, iPhone devices and xbox in the last handful of days. Many more price increases to come.
>>741879547board games are fun, a lot of modern board games are just video games in board game form
>>741878608I know you're joking but realistically, I've never seen the price on anything drop unless they're trying to get rid of it without trashing it, or if there was a sudden flood of surplus (which will not happen if AI becomes actually useful). Wages will stagnate because with so much fewer jobs in a climate with "breakthrough (assumedly the mythical AGI)" level AI they have no reason to raise it to attract workers.
>>741881079The Valve cube selling out means the cattle will buy 10th gen consoles at 999.99 US DOLLARS. >>741881174Bugmen copy, they can't lead if their life depended on it. See (L)Mao and birthrate issues in Japan and the Westernization of Korea.
>>741881261Probably. Xbox is done catering to poorfags after the Series S flopped. They'll go all in on premium
>>741881261I would not be surprised if the most common version of helix doesn't come with a controller or storage just to keep the costs downyou could sell that shit for hundreds less as long as people are aware they need to reuse their old storage
>>741881189Ps5 has seen better real world performance than the series X in game benchmarks. That's not even including the pro which you might want to get depending on how it's enhanced. Plus, no batteries for the dual sense 5. But, the series X is surprisingly small in its form factor. The PS5 is vastly over engineered in that aspect.
>>741881054No, the first profit was seen during the 360 era (after they fixed the RROD).
>>741881368didn't series S outsell series X 3 to 1?
>>741881387good to know, back to playstation it is i guess.
>>741881261>>741881261$3,000 minimum. It's supposed to be a premium product under Sarah bond with no subsidizing at all. I don't think the Indian CEO can do anything about that given our current news. She has already failed at her first big challenge. Tf is she gonna do?
>>741881281it wasn't a fair price. They priced it more than the norm because it was Galaxy special edition bullshit
>>741881387it's all those special chips that Mark Cerny designed that took the load off the CPU
>>741879261let's fuck bro
>>741881387Controller needing charges after every 4-5 hours even after turning off the gimmicks is terrible though.
>>741881054>profitableLOL. It was a 3% profit (basic bitch investment nets you 4.5%) and in return it made Xbox irrelevant and impossible to save. Such a feat.
>>741881281The Biggest game (COD) only hovers around the 200 gig mark, 150+ is very rare. Also you don't need every game you own installed at the same time you fucking hoarder
>>741879780I'm an xbro since ~2009 and never cared about gaylo, fags of war or fagle
and Sony are still selling the PS5 at a loss in japan
>>741880026I'm sure it's fine. I bought a Series X after getting back on the Xbox train with the One S last generation and looking back, I think I should have picked the cheaper alternative again. Fidelity doesn't really make a difference for my enjoyment.
>>741881261It was rumored to be $1200 before the memory crisis. The PS6 was expected to be significantly cheaper even then so the crisis made sure the Helix will not be affordable to anyone.
what is the end goal with AIAltman, Nadeya, Elon, Zuck, all of them. Do they think this is humanities new frontier? What exactly are they trying to accomplish besides hoarding more wealth exponentially?
>>741875529rent free
>>741881529No wonder why open world games still stutter. PS movies don't need much CPU power to run smoothly. Pro is a fucking worthless upgrade.>just upgrade your GPU to RTX5090 bro but keep that 2010's Intel's CPU type of bullshit
>>741881261Project Helix is dead and buried, try and keep up anonif Microsoft had any sense they’d take over Steam Machine from Valve and rebrand it under Xbox
>>741881937>what is the end goalto eliminate the worker entirely
>>741881706Stalker 2 is around 140gb on PS5 but it's actually big desu.
>>741881387don't you need a wired controller anyway? Latency on ps5 is worse than on any platform
>>741881730You're also obviously an ESL, and thus not the xbro primary audience.
>>741881937what exactly are they doing with it right now that is taking all these resources? the only exposure i have to it are these ask xxxx search engines
>>741880809what are some good forums?
Sony of the olden days would lower the price of the digital PS5 to the same as Series S. Make it the best value way to play GTA6 and just kill Xbox there and then.
>>741879090But he DOES exist...
>>741875431>can't sell at original price>raise it>can't sell at new price>raise it again>why is nobody buying our product?Please just die already.
>Unlike phones, computers, speakers, and other consumer devices, consoles are typically not sold at a profit, but instead for less than they cost to make.So literally it's the video games that are getting fucked up the ass the hardest when it comes to consumer electronics. Good to know.
>>741881730so you're japanese? What could you have possibly played on 360 other than lost odyssey and blue dragon. I mean there are sega ports and that's pretty much it
>>741882057oh yeah, and fake dog videos
>>741881998The elite kikes are out of touch with the real world so it's not surprising that they waste trillions to replace a waitress or a cashier who works at minimum wage already.
Jesus christ didnt they raise the prices like 2 months ago or something?
>>741882057>what exactly are they doing with it right now that is taking all these resources?Something similar to brute force memorization. Storing as much information as possible to complete a task. Trying to eliminate context or know-how so that a machine can do skilled work. It won't happen anytime soon. Because it would need for a machine to stop working with 1-0s, it would need to start thinking in 0.5s, 2s or Colors.
>Out of a job right now.>Worried I won't be able to upgrade PC again before its a rich person only hobby.
>>741882057ChatGPT is used for kids in hs and college to write their papers for them and reaffirming shcizos to kill themselvesGen AI is making shitty 30-second clips of whatever you type into a prompt. check >>>/gif/ for the porn and or any other one of the big sites to see slop
>>741881937To replace workers and generate value to their shareholders
>>741882185damn, just reminded me that sakaguchi wasted two of his best games on the dudebox 360 where no one bought them
i had to buy an AC for 450 bucks instead of an xbox for gta 6safe to say i will be waiting on the pc version nowfuck this
>>741875431what are all these fucking retarded phrases I keep hearing? sunsetting, shuttering, just say what you're doing and stop trying to euphamize it
>>741882057The data centers springing up to consume AI are literally using all of the RAM, GPUs and SSD storage on earthFor instance, and I'm looking this up, doing back of the napkin math hereThe Tesla "Colossus" AIML supercomputer has... 26,910,000 GB of RAM in it. So, y'know, more than one million desktops. And it's not at full capacity yet, it might be 4x that size next year. That's one building, for one company.
I checked the price of the 32gb ddr5 ram sticks i bought at the end of 2024 and it's over quadrupled in price from 89.99 to 450+ on amazon. The ram crisis is fucking nuts.
>>741879092Is Biggs black or Barret just a tanned white guy in this image?
>>741878104The recession in your head?
The great gaming crash is nigh, strap in you haven't seen nothing yet.
>>741878078PS exclusives are better.Xbox missed out on key releases or the games came years later. Stellar Blade still not on Xbox, FF came 5 years late. You should not underestimate the power of most multiplats are always between maybe and never for Xbox. You see a trailer for a cool game and no Xbox logo. Do you want to play Yakuza games 15 years later? FF five years later?Xbox kept making empty promises for their userbase. There is near zero trust in anything the leadership says. Asha kept doing what Phil did. Fake smile then murder. Anyone who still has an Xbox essentially playing russian roulette. MS can pull the plug at ANY moment.Also the price hikes sealed the fate of the system forever. The hikes are not only crazy large but always keep the system well above the Playstation offerings.Who the fuck buys a $800 PS5 equivalent Xbox when the PS5Pro is around that?
I don't know what people were expecting given that memory prices keep going up with no sign of stopping.The prices will continue to climb as long as this AI data center shit continues.
>>741882569>PS exclusives are better.What exclusives, the PS5 still has next to nothing and what it does have is shit. They need to whip their devs into making exclusives that aren't dogshit like a new Infamous game.
>>741882436>i had to buy an AC for 450 bucksWhat in the fuck?What kind of absolute unit did you buy? ACs are usually like $250.
>>741882491>26,910,000 GB of RAM in one building
>Series X launches at $500>"ehh nah I'm good that's kinda pricey and there's not really any games worth playing on it. maybe I'll get one when the price goes down later">6 years and 3 price hikes later>mfw
>>741882431Last Story sold well and that didn't lead to anything. At least because of xbox we can play blue dragon and lost odyssey on a modern console
>>741878078A lot of Asian games flat out tell Xbox to get fucked, which would mean missing out on some of the best games coming out right now.
Maybe i didn't like games that much as i thought
Why don't they just make more RAM
>>741882156>>So literally it's the video games that are getting fucked up the ass the hardest when it comes to consumer electronics. Good to know.No, it's that you had it good up until now.they're saying they're already taking a loss for every unit (unlike other electronics which are sold at a profit) and they can't have that loss be too massive.
>>741880026for that price they aren't too bad. got one hooked up to my bedroom tv.
we are going back to 4gb ram devices
>>741882978You've never needed more than 4gbs of ram.
Is pricing the masses out of their bread and circuses really such a good idea?
>>741882931Back when the smartphone craze was popping, they increased memory production like crazy, but once things normalized, they basically had all this overhead stock sitting around and they got burned, so this time around Samsung, Hynix, etc are wary of just increasing production.this is what the Samsung guy said a few months back, anyway.
>>741882978Good. This will force software engineers to optimize instead of leaving their code a mess and making that the user's problem, Think of the memory limitations 90's games had to work with.
>>741882569what you are basically saying that xbox should be just as aggressive as sony and buy exclusivity for something massive like sony did with FF7
>>741882792I'm kinda glad I upgraded my computer a few years ago, I felt like I got a little ripped off when I got my RX 6950 XT for $520.Little did I know how bad things would get in such a short time.
>>741878030when ever a company gets a jeet as a CEO that means the company is about to do a ton of bullshittery and it will all be blamed on the jeet.
>>741883112I guess that's sensible, but it's clear the big boys are deadset on AI being the future and are going all in on it. It's time to just bite the bullet and ramp up production.
>>741883152>software engineers>in the AI agethey are all being replaced too
>>741878104I think this stagflation at this point. Despite you know that not being possible to exist.
>>741882931all the new production would be bought up by data centers anyway.it's not like production diminished compared to 2 years ago, they simply sell everything they output to datacenters.
>>741875732murrrrrrrp economics having an effect on games isn't gaming discourse, take it to epstein's board! Be milked cattle.
>>741882707Memes aside PS5 had Ratchet and Demon souls when Xbox had nothing. Look at the Series catalog. It is Forza Horizon and a bunch flops and garbage. The output of Sony is abysmal but the Xbox output is straight up garbage. I have both consoles, I had Xbox since the OG came out and it is fucking over since "just 4 games" in 2024. Phil hid what he could as long as he could and now MS is cleaning house. They gave up on hardware (the next one is out of the budget of the current userbase already), games came too late and multiplat (Gears changes nothing) and people outside the Xbox ecosystem have no fucking idea how bad the users are treated.Xbox games came out unfinished with 30fps only modes for years. Now that they sell them on PS there is a 60fps mode. We now know this actually only happened because they started running their AA games on AAA budget. Game Pass stalled out and held up by the console userbase who will not pay a dime more so no growth potential. The GP offerings are thinner and thinner every month.Anyone who believes Xbox will survive their next hardware launch IF there will be a next hardware (guess why Sarah then Asha had to reaffirm the pubic numerous times about the Helix while no one is doubting the PS6 or Switch 3) are in for a rude awakening.
>>741883196Same thing they do when they get a woman CEO.In this case it's a double whammy since it's a woman jeet CEO, so you just know Xbox is about to utterly commit suicide.
>>741879547Nature walks unless you can't a decent pair of shoes as hardware
>>741877547>FUCK YOU XBOX! YOU GOT MY HYPED WITH THE SHOWCASE!why? the only worthwhile thing they had is also on pc
>>741883210They don't have to though. They make a fuckton of money off selling memory to AI companies.
>>741881937they're going to put all those 'detention centers' they're building around america to good use
>>741877547>YOU GOT MY HYPED WITH THE SHOWCASE!...With what?Okay, Magicians looked cool.
>>741883167Maybe it could have worked years ago with Activision but it is over by now. Nothing can save Xbox. They lost the pricing battle, the software battle and there is zero trust in them.
>>741881937They need to get to the super AI brain first, so it can predict market shifts and manipulate the stock market with 99% accuracy.
>>741880026Series S is unironically the best console if you just play the latest popular game, it even does 120 fps at 1080P for certain games
>>741883295The Helix will probably be another Dreamcast disaster that forces them to go software only.
>>741883295>Ratchet True.> Demon soulsA fucking remake.I agree that Playstation is still outperforming Xbox, but they're doing horrible as well. But I guess that have next to no competition now so they can afford to be awful. No one is going to jump ship from Playstation to Nintendo and PC gaming is becoming too expensive for your average Sony player to build one or buy a prebuilt.
>>741882729price hike because 110°F over herei also just said fuck it as i didn't want to exist as a puddle of hot water
>>741881937Technofascism for their mutt bloodlines with everyone else as slaves
Welp, i was actually eyeing a ps5pro but thats also 850 bucks nowWhen the everlasting FUCK is the AI bubble gonna burst jesus christI've read data centers have reserved RAM f or the next 3+ years
>>741883572PC ports basically killed xbox. Xbox One would have sold better if Phil Spencer didn't announce that every game will come to PC day one a year into a gen
Maybe they should re-release the Xbox one X version and the Xbox 360 while we’re at it.
>>741878608lollmao even
>>741883820>When the everlasting FUCK is the AI bubble gonna burst jesus christ>ImplyingSorry anon but this is just the world now. Gaming is dead.
>>741876305They are already figuring out how to turn all existing xboxs into prebuilts.
>>741883893i swear to god if they go back and release the previous gen consoles like they did with the 3060ti and AMD chips, i will check out of tech forever.
>>741881937They've read science fiction which depicts a post-scarcity world and they want to foster it without consideration for the consequences such a world would have on real people.
PS6 and Xbox next are gonna be a 1000 bucks at least, current gen will stay as the cheaper option
>>741883973I want off this fucking ride nobody even uses AI besides gooners making porn and normies asking it to give them a cake recipe
>>741883685Sony can always position their console as the cheapest prebuilt because it gets almost every notable release in that generation. Xbox could never do that. There is theoretically always a place for a PS on the market.
>>741878920When your circle of friends includes only slack jawed yokels, its not surprising.
>>741884090Current gen will be the last true gen in that case, the 'next' gen will just be a deluxe version of this one. There won't be a PS7 or Xbox whatever.
>>741884090ps6 new xbox will be 1300 at the bare minimum
>>741884096>gooners making pornIsn't thi outlawed pretty much everywhere in the west and on most large models (certainly those using massive data centers.AI is mostly for programming and data analysis at this point.
>>741881937human workers are extremely versatile and adaptable to many different tasks but have too many rights, too many variables to get any more efficient than they currently are. current automation isn't nearly versatile nor adaptable enough to replace the remaining current human workforce, so they're sinking all this money and resources into a technology designed to be as versatile and adaptable as a human, but cheaper and which won't complain when you get rid of it for newer, better technology later down the line.only after writing all of this do i realize that what i've wrote is just a longwinded version of >>741881998, oops
>>741882086>He DOES existNobody by the name Joe Biden exists. He was just some old fart they paid to act as a demented old fart and his real name has never been revealed.
>>741883820>When is this automobile bubble going to burst>When is this telephone bubble going to burst>When is this internet bubble going to burst
>>741884337making ai available to the masses was a mistakeclaude is ok for the things you're mentioningbut the rest should not have access
>>741884090>PS6 and Xbox next are gonna be a 1000 bucks at leastAnon, the Steam Machine is sold *at cost* for $1050 using last gen GPU tech and 2 gen old CPU tech, PS6 and the next Xbox are going to be $1300 minimum, with the machines costing probably $1700 a piece to actually produce.
>>741879090So?
>>741882389Cheap computing was never the norm, you were expected to upgrade parts constantly, PC gaming historically have been the rich guys game.
>>741884393most retarded post itt
>>741883820>thats also 850 bucks now900, without the disk drive lol
>>741884347real joe biden exists but his spirit only comes out when it comes to bombing serbs, not even kidding
>>741879547Aside from the obvious "take up drawing/music/writing" or physical hobbies like sports or hiking, I'd say for slash vee slash...maybe model kits?Unlike what anon said, TCGs are still mostly playable with a budget if they have structure decks.Model kits, as above, range in price abd take a while if you want to perfect itReading, whether regular books, light novels, manga, etc. is always a good timeThis'll sound retarded but I enjoyed filling out a guidebook of birds for the area with a checklist in the back of it when I was a kid. It felt like filling out a Pokedex. No bully.
>>741875431We're fucked.
>>741884401Don't worry, any worthwhile "AGI-like" artificial intelligence, you won't have access to.
>>741875431I also thought that what microsoft really needed right now was to make it more difficult for people to buy a series.
>>741884487Christ almighty
>>741882785Don't get too excited Danny Ocean, they thought of that already, the RAM AI data centers use are incompatible with consumer devices, they're just made from the same silicon waffers.
>>741884164PC and console is already merging with all the handhelds releasing. Hardware is also already good enough for all types of games since devs are already wasting resources with unnecessary lightning like raytracing which no one besides graphics autists give two fucks about
>>741879090Does this mean... people will eventually stop talking about Trump?
>>741884393well the dot com bubble did burst...
>>741875529It is but at the same time it would have shaken out the same way regardless of who's in power. Never trust a politician. It doesn't matter if they're an old fat guy or an old less fat woman. They would sell their nation for a quick cash infusion any day of the week.AI eating everything in tech is not something that was avoidable at this point.
>>741881937More advanced mass surveillance and population control. Anything else is a lie or cope.
>>741884841>>741884393The Internet was massively overvalued in 2000The crazy part is that the Internet became exactly as valuable in about 2015 as money burning retards imagined it was gonna be in 2000If AI follows the same trajectory, then the "bubble" will pop soon, and the real nightmare will come a few years AFTER that
>>741882978We're not going back to anything, the idea of a personal computer is done. They're going to rent us computing power we'll use over the cloud. Part of the reason AI is currently so cheap, despite it's cost and the fact it doesn't actually make any money is they want you to be so dependent on it for your day to day life they can charge you to rent their closed AI platforms of the future, the government and big business are already there.
>>741884841The dot com bubble happened because people saw this new tech, imagined it was the future and immediately invested billions in it even though the hardware and tech wasn't quite there yet. Not like AI at all!! I'm sure it'll be able to replace all human coders any second now, we just need to build more data centers.
>>741876871>suspiciously quiet about a third termNobody tell him
>>741885041>the idea of a personal computer is done.And nothing of value was lost.
>got ps5 pro when it was 650$>thought it was too much money at the time>.....its 900$ now>1tb xbox is 800$>have pc with 32gb ram, 1tb gen 4 + 2tb gen 3 nvme ssd. Those components at the time cost 300$ combined>.......would now cost over 700$. Just for ssd and ramJesus christ.
>>741884337Cartoon stuff is the most commonIt's illegal to make porn of real people with their faces showing in several countries because it was trained on irl people.In NA it's just illegal to make deepfake porn iirc, especially anything with minors as it counts as real CP due to there being an actual victim even if the image is faked.
>>741884431So there's a guy in the White House who's made over 2 billion dollars from AI investments in the last 18 months who sets all the policies. Cultist moron.
>ai will flop, those data centers will be useless! The datacenters are for the feds and mossad track your every move. The ai shit is a short term scheme. The last chance to get rich before we enter the cali yuga
>>741885072how do i profit from the inevitable crash?
>>741882389To play what exactly, you don't need a supercomputer to play most of the quality games out right now, that amount alone will last you a lifetime.>b-but what about future games?What future games? The industry is fucking crashing as we speak and Goy Tee Ayy won't save it.
>>741885072Also because people had been tricked out of pensions into 401ks and therefore a huge number of people who had never fucked with the stock market were now interested in it and able to buy stocks with online stock trading opening up and also also wall street had finished with the mergers and acquisitions boom in the 80s and needed a new mechanism to withdraw money from the stock market so they all jumped on IPOs.
>>741885456If I knew, I would be doing it. I dunno, honestly.
>>741875431>cause hardware shortage to get more "AI" power>complain that shit is too expensive>jack up prices>while being one of the wealthiest companies aroundEveryone who works there with any kind of decision making power is a complete fucking retard.
>>741885456Buy gold and silver, crypto is a gamble since computers will at one point be able to decrypt almost anything
>>741885456>how do i profit from the inevitable crash?usb cables
>>741885298>Upload your photos to our servers to see what you'd look like as a Studio Ghibli character!>Damn, how did the AI get so good at making real faces??
I genuinely just want this shit to stop. When was the last time fucking anything nice happened?
>>741885702Silver has gone from $20 an ounce to $70 an ounce this last year
I just hope my pc doesn't break any time soon.
>>741885753Two days ago, when Valve shot their foot off and even their brainwashed cultists couldn't defend it.
>>741875431thanks trump
>>741885753>When was the last time fucking anything nice happened?Good question honestly.
>>741885753>When was the last time fucking anything nice happened?why would anything nice happen.jpg
Already have a series x and a ps5. Will probably play gta on xbox because the controller is better but either way this doesn't affect me thankfully
>>741881261Probably put on the shelves, if it somehow even exists on current timelines and what it was originally going to be $2000+ now.>>741879547>suggest me some hobbies that aren't dependent on hardwareHiking /backpacking isn't too bad, just don't go nutso on ultralight shit. Takes time though and time to travel to places.Also go after affordable rifles, ammo, and optics and calculating the time it takes police / public utilities to respond to shooting transformers / substations
>>741885839It peaked at 113, they want to shake out as many as possible. Gold, silver and other metals are used for chip manufacturing
>>741885041>They're going to rent us computing power we'll use over the cloudBut none of us will have computers or phones so how will they accomplish that?
>>741885731People are profoundly retarded. Same shit as genetics analysis companies >Send us your DNA and see your lineage and racial makeup! It's quick and easy!>What do you mean they're selling all my genetic info and personal data then shutting down the company
>>741876541I can easily afford both, but I choose to buy neither.Ohmmmmm.
>>741886092There will always be a smartphone available for you, you can't operate in their society without one
Just like Endgame was the end of Hollywood I think GTA6 is going to be the end of the game industry. A pie in the sky that will never be reached again
>make it illegal to raise prices>inflation stopsWhy hasn't anyone tried this?
>>741886092You'll get lightweight devices just enough to connect to the internet and rent their compute.You may even get them subsidized.
>>741875431Xbox was already a dying platform so it's not really surprising they're the first to raise prices again, Microsoft is not interested in taking massive losses on console sales anymore. Most interesting part of the news is this>Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027This industry is going to face a brutal reckoning in the next couple of years, I am glad I own pretty much all the hardware that I could ever ask for.
>>741876242don't worry anon, everything is an xbox
>>741886228Hello, mr Stalin...
>>741886228>inflation stopsextremely anti-semetic post
>>741875431we will soon live in an age where you need to finance a fucking video game console
>>741886264>I am glad I own pretty much all the hardware that I could ever ask for.until something fails...
>>741886221>Just like Endgame was the end of Hollywoodhow so?
>>741875431So if Sony has the Concord Tax and the Marathon Tax, Xbox has what, the didn't even make any games tax?
>>741875431"Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027."Aren't they (Microsoft) a big reason why these prices are going up?
>>741886495They're literally axing studios and employees as we speak
>>741886542Their AI usage, yes.
>>741886542Shut up saar it's worth it for the agentic OS.
>>741886542yes but that doesn't mean they can stop it
>>741886264Two more weeks right faggot. All this means is esl browns can't game on current consoles which has been the case before. Even fast food workers make 18 an hour. When consoles were 400 they made 9 an hour. Now they make 18 it's 800. Pretty normal progression.
>>741886495The street shitter AI worship tax
>>741885362if politicians weren't allowed to hold stocks or have holding companies that hold stocks we'd see a lot less of this bullshitthey already get rich off of lobbyists sending them money and other 'gifts', how much more do those fags need?
>>741886454NTA but it was the last global mega blockbuster, the tradition going back to Jaws and Star Wars and Jurassic Park
>>741886228>>make it illegal to raise pricesTrump did that?
>>741886542xbox can't control what microsoft does and microsoft doesn't give a fuck if hardware prices fuck up xbox
>>741886408poor people used to finance consoles but you're too young to remember
>>741886542>Aren't they (Microsoft) a big reason why these prices are going up?Yeah, but everyone else would still do it even if Microsoft was out of the field.
>>741886792This. Remember K-Mart Layaway? All the poor kids in my class proudly stated how they'd get the latest console for Christmas and that their moms had put it on Layaway.
>>741884993It's all about the pursuit of AGI: the ghost in the machine. The nightmare shall become a reality.
>>741886710Which isn't true. Look up Spiderman and that last deadpool movie. Should I mention avatar? There's more if you decide to chimp out
>>>make it illegal to raise prices
>>741886890All these companies are literally saying "Yeah, we're going to create an agentic superintelligence trained on the sum total of human knowledge. There will be no downside to this."
>>741886917Well, people care about spiderman and Deadpool. They've just gotten way more selective about what they watch now. Something like obsession does wonders at the box office despite being extreme slop while good movies get passed over all the time. Regardless, modern movies don't have that classic or wow factor to them that pulls audiences in like old movies did.
>>741887108>Yeah, we're going to create an agentic superintelligence trained on the sum total of human knowledge. There will be no downside to this.The ultimate gooner
>>741887108Oh, whats the worst that could happen?>Terminator.png
>>741879547Cycling
>See this stupid outdated console with the worst fucking controllers out of any other modern alternative and literally NO GAEMS and paid online?>We are increasing the price of EVERYTHING.>Gamepass>Games>Hardware>It will all be more expensive!>At what would be near the end of the lifespan of any other console!Is the industry telegraphing there won't be another console GEN at all unless the AI bubble burst so tragically data centers sell Ram at a loss? Because the reason this is happening is because Crucial seriously crippled the market to gauge up the prices.RAM could still be produced normally and the demand of Data Centers is not nearly that monstrous to state all silicon on the planet has been depleted.Following Crucial every manufacturer limit their RAM production to ride on the AI gravy train, jacking up prices to make every happy merchant simultaneously cum.Now what follows is an environment where everyone will have to make due with what they got already until 2030.The only bright side to this is that Tim Sweeney will sweat when developers stop using UE altogether since UE slop games will be largely unplayable in this environment.
>>741886917>Should I mention avatar?Funny, I was going to use Avatar as an example of Hollywood being fucking deadOn the one hand, $1.4 billion sure is a lot of moneyOn the other hand, no studio is happy to make less than half as much money as they were making fifteen years agoDon't take it from me, here's James Cameron on how he'll have to use AI to cut costs or he might not get to make any more movieshttps://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-cameron-blockbuster-movies-ai-cut-costs-1236365081/
>>741886917>chimp outIsn't that what you're preparing to do with your unprompted passive-aggression?
>>741885891You spend too much time on this website
How the fuck can anyone justify this shit?I want a full scale industry collapse
>>741887463I work at home and my job is as exciting as watching paint dry. I gotta do SOMETHING.
>>741876542I bought one for 300 on said sale and you know what's happening with it? Gathering dust.
>>741887434>All that money>Zero cultural impact>Nobody quotes these movies or can name a single character on the spot
>>741879653Realisticly only when ai went rogue to a point halting government to function. However there is a non zero chance dot net scenario happening before 2030 which cause hardware companies salvage parts and dump them back to consumer market to cope unfulfilled ai order. Otherwise I don't see anyway hardware prices will go down other than general inflation.
>>741875431
>>741885753This year saw dozens of great decompilations with massive QoL improvements.PS3 games can now all be decompiled thanks to an open source project.My stupid 8Gb Vram card might be too weak to play the latest in Woke Walking Sims, Near infinite UE Souls-Slop clones, Pajeet Lead Remasters but it sure can play Killzone 2 at 120 FPS.The industry will have to cater to me, optimize their games FOR me or go fuck themselves and die.>But GTA6Don't care, I was done with that shit after IV which was the best of them all anyhow.
>>741884740No, it could be 16 straight years of Dem hegemony and Trump will still be brought up like the boogeyman.
>>741887941What having games does to a mf
RAMGODS FUCKING WON FUCK GAMERS
Suddenly all the faggots glazing the pajeeta bitch have disappeared
Should I get an Xbox One and just play the Series X/S games in the cloud?
>>741878950>>741879103How were burgers so brainwashed into hating China so much? Especially when all of their stuff is made there?
>>741887990>Ps3 games can now all be decompiledI want a decompilation of siren blood curse and demon souls. Now that would be very cool.
>>741888238Unleashing a global pandemic will do that.
Unironically, what the FUCK can make the industry crash at this point if good goys will still buy at these prices?
Prices need to go up more, you gaymers need to pump my stocks.
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/06/25/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years/5261854Shit's fucked.
>>741875431>Series S is $500ahahahahaha, imagine paying $500 for that piece of shit.
>>741875431>jeeta is slowly boiling xbox cucks like frogsproject helix will feel like a good deal at $2000 in 2029.
>>741888538>>741888558>MicronFUCKINGGODS
>>741888558>president and chairman Sanjay MehrotraWhy is it always Indians now?
>>741888516At this point, nothing. That elusive " bubble " that everyone was wishing for and coping with ain't happening anytime soon.
>>741888678they look after each other
>>741888678To be fair he cofounded Sandisk. He's one of the cool ones, very fiscally conservative too
>>741888626I genuinely thought it would have been $99 by now and would have actually scooped one up at that priceI mean shit like that's happened before, this is from around the time the Xbone launched
>>741889318...Yes, and?
>>741875431>Gabe ruins my hobby: episode 6,000,001
>>741889426
>>741889318$500 soon and then $700 :)
What is the endgame of all of this?Industries are pricing people out everywhere.Layoffs are happening everywhere.Who's going to be left to buy your slop?
>>7418896322 more weeks.
>>741881387>Ps5 has seen better real world performance than the series X in game benchmarksThis hasn't been true since 2021.since 2021 Also the dualsense lasts 4 hours and even less if you use bullshit like haptic triggers.
>>741889951>What is the endgame of all of this?No consumer ownership
>>741887990Whats a good ps3 emulator? I wanna play Killzone and Resistance 3
>>741884450>>741885481Ive just had CPU issues for a while, and need a new mobo to update it.Ive always been good with money, but because of that im not blowing a bunch for a new upgrade when im out of work.
>>741875529Reactions like this are exactly why i voted for him and will continue to vote for people like him.
>>741889951its only pricing poorfags out, Dow Jones is over 50k btw
>>741891259Very vaginal logic.
>>741875431good ideaI'll definitely boughted a Xbox now.
>>741885456Identify which companies will remain solvent after the crash and pick up shares at a steep discount during the panic.Most of the manufacturers are wisely avoiding costly capacity expansions to meet demand, they are content to keep supply low and reap unfathomable profits. They risked nothing except the worthless goodwill of consumers who have no other choices anyway.
>>741889951We're setting up a tech feudalist society, it's post capitalist, so you can't use capitalist market logic to understand it.>Who's buying the product?!No one, there is no need to produce, because you're a serf now, and Altman can come to you village and fuck your ass, because you're his property.
>>741875431Trump is shit, AI is shit, Pajeets are shit. What even is this garbage ass economy?
>>741889243Helix still hasn't launched
>>741889951Either every executive is a coke head disposed to burn every bridge for another hit.Or this is a conspiracy to push people towards leftists ideologies that will lead to LatAM like tyrannies once they are priced out living.Okay maybe it is both.
I have a feeling that PlayStation and Nintendo are going to do the same thing.
>>741889951No one. You are supposed to die so they can take your organs.
>>741875431APOLOGIZE TO GAYBEN
I pray that datacenters set on fire and the bubble pops massively.these companies should be publicly shamed.
>>741878740Do electric guitars use RAM memory? shitty jokes aside, they've been perfected tech for decades, how are they justifying this?
>>741892901Fuck that fat hack.
what the fuck do these datacenters even DOwe see maybe a good AI model every few months, wtf are these retards even doing with these buildings of GPUs. 99% cant be training shit.it's a scam, isnt it?
>>741893146I don't want them burned. I want the locals to rob them and hold the building hostage.>inb4 get arrestedhonor amongst thieves
>>741884534You are too much of a kind-soul for this board faggot.
>>741886495xbox is carrying the burden of a 70 bil actiblizz purchase
>>741893447Boy, that sure paid off, huh?
>>741884678the chinese will find a way
>>741876525The ps5 pro will be over 1k before this year ends
>>741893257literally track your every move
>>741893862nah>ps5 pro $1200>ps6 1300$
Man, I'd hate being a kid in this economy. >Sorry, Timmy. We won't be able to get you that Xbox you wanted because it's now $300 more expensive than it was when you asked for it. Sorry. Christmas is gonna really suck.
>>741893447The opposite. ABK was keeping Xbox studios in the positive during the last few years of Sarah bond failures with the other internal studios. It's been a massive win for xbox in hindsight. Also that 70bn is great value now because of inflation.
>>741894126Nintendo kids have it the worstLike, the switch 2 at 500$ is more affordable than the ps5 at 650$, but kids are fucked. Switch lite was a godsend for everyone I know with kids. Now a console is 500$ per kid. And they fucking smash those things. Nintendo's business model right now is gearing the same way as Disney's, squeezing money out of adults with an endless amount of love for your brand, but when those people start to burn out or simply die....... yeah I see why they're pivoting to movies. They're not pricing children out of movies.
>>741878608I think Beezos said or implied something like that
>>741893151I assume the cost of making them increased because of inflation but other than that I have no idea. I haven't paid attention to guitar stuff in a long time.
>>741878948Things have gotten more expensive now and theyre already predicting that it will get more expensive again in the near future and again and again till AI companies stop buying RAM en masse
Societal collapse soon.
>>741879570If you already have an Xbox library then it makes sense to buy the Xbox series but they fumbled the Xbox one gen hard so not many people have meaningful Xbox libraries now, they really need killer exlcusives as in real not on Steam exclusives
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>>741894408ps/xbone arent worth it, pc + switch seems the ideal setup. in any case, the prices of everything going up massively is going to cause a crash. this is LITERALLY not sustainable, people need electronics. even if not a console, even computers for school are way more expensive.
>>741887460I'm the original poster and I didn't even respond because I could sense the stick up his ass
>>741889951Most business owners are retarded, they see stats like "10% of people control 50% of consumer spending" and somehow don't understand what that entails.They don't understand that moneybags junior still only needs ONE $1000 gaming device.
>>741894126I was gonna say that when I was a kid we could never afford consoles unless uncle gave a hand me down to us for cheap, so we got lego and had a lot of fun with it instead.Then I remembered Lego costs an arm and a leg now too.
Everything in gaming sucks because of politics now, even prices
>>741889951They're literally prideful and delusional enough that they think people are going to sell organs to pay for their entertainment addictions. The atosecond people realize entertainment is inherently worthless like the former Nintendo boss said it's all over for the tech companies
>>741875431again? i thought this woman was supposed to save the company
All you cocksuckers that celebrated this talmudic invention because Twitter trannies were upset about art theft deserve to be priced out of your hobby like this. Fuck you all.
At this point i don't even know what to go to school for, the future is so uncertain and everything just seems shit
>>741897772That's why AI was is an issue beyond left and right. You're literally pro humanity or against it at this point
>>741898057They figured out long ago, but really mastered their craft during occupy on how to turn fucking everything into a fringe political issue to get the slaves fighting
>>741875431You ever just see something and see the death of a company? Unironically this will kill xbox people only bought it because it was a cheap lazy man's pc.
>>741875431Buying a Series X was a better investment for me than any crypto shit.
>>741875431I'm not a waitfag anymore. I guess I will buy a switch 2 now. I'm actually scared of price increases. Snoys should do the same.
>$750 for an XSX >$800 for a 1TB XSX OH MY SCIENCE! WAIT UNTIL I GO TO REDDIT AGAIN THIS!
>>741883986This would fucking erase Sony. Open up Xboxes to windows and start selling the console for a profit. It need to be more than just a "gaming" device. The cost is way too prohibitive for gaming to be its only use.
>>741879825I blame her
>>741878948The tech industry is having to raise prices every year now because of the AI problems, but mostly RAM, but that is due to AI. It's possibly we'll start seeing price hikes on lots of things every year so companies can keep up and make a profit. The consumers are the ones taking the bullet. Nintendo is raising the price of Switch 2's by $50 on September 1st. I'm sure Sony will announce another price hike for Playstation consoles in 2027, possibly before then.
>>741877292We have been trying to warn you since they first started putting in microtransactions but all you cucks kept saying it wasn't a big deal
>>741900194Storage is also now a huge problem. Even regular magnetic HDDs have doubled in price.
>>741894056If they bump the PS5 Pro to $1200, the PS6 won't be a dime under $1500.
>>741897772I said this for a while.I love making shitlib artists mad, but I did not think signing over creativity to the algorithm and AI slop to be a good trade off.>>741900764Storage is almost even worse imo.
>>741876824I work in a big toy store in the UK and we don't sell consoles very quickly at all. Maybe a couple of each per week.
>>741897242Hey. A cheap PC or used console can provide a fuckton of fun. Lowend PCs can still play indies. Sad for the fatherless children though. Tf are they gonna do?
Reminder that retards were showering her with praise and adoration a few weeks ago
>>741902850Xbox fans love having the rug pulled out from under them time and time again. These retards propped up Phil Spencer for a decade lmao.
>>741902850Since when was the memory crisis her fault?
>>741876392>buying a used console for the old full pricelol lmaoing
>>741902639It was a Win98 and a Sega Genesis plus an Xbox hueg a few years later, so fuck yeah we had a lot of fun. Stuff doesn't happen nowadays though. People are too busy hawking their old stuff on ebay instead of letting their niece and nephew have it for $20.
