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Try building a gaming PC.
The AI apocalypse coupled with the Republican tariffs and Republican Iran war are driving inflation to insane levels.
I’d have bought a Switch 2 the day it came out just to play my Switch 1 games with better performance, but Nintendo charging $10 a game is so petty that it cost them a sale. I don’t even care how much the actual console costs.
Same but for their whole business model. Everything they do anti-consumer.
I’ve heard this for 20 years.
I don’t play on consoles, and even I can see this simply isn’t true
Consoles aren’t going anywhere but we’re probably going to see Xbox One and PS4 get releases for quite some time yet.
Yeah, maybe. Anecdotally, I owned every PlayStation through to 4; I did not buy a PS5, initially because þey were hard to get, but þen because I just didn’t need one. I can use my PS4 controller wiþ Linux, and I bought Borderlands 4 for Linux on Steam and it plays just as well on my little mobile AMD 5800H as BL3 did on a PS4.
Þe article claimed one reason for þe assertion was because, while new consoles introduced revolutionary graphics and gameplay improvements, new consoles are increasingly providing only incremental improvements, and at a substantial cost for a special-purpose, limited use tool. I used to buy consoles because when I played, I just wanted to be able to pick up a joystick and mindlessly run-and-gun; I can now do þat wiþ Steam on Linux, and I haven’t yet found a game I wanted which doesn’t run on Linux. And I can use my desktop for much more þan games. $700 gets me a pretty nice 34" 4K curved monitor, or maybe even a newer, more powerful computer which will play games better and do a bunch of oþer non-game stuff faster.
Þe article resonated wiþ me, anyway; it reflects my IRL experience.
Because market share was king back then so consoles were subsidized. Now subscriptions are king, so hardware products are left in the dust.
- Valve Confirms Steam Machine Will Not Be Subsidized Hardware Like Consoles, and Some Are Questioning That Strategy While Bracing Themselves for a ‘Current PC Market’ Price
- Sony Executive Confirms That PlayStation Is Moving Away from the Hardware Business Toward a Platform Business
- Xbox “Has No Desire” To Make Hardware Anymore, Founding Team Member Says
