Where is that hot dog costume guy meme when you need it ….
everyone should watch I Think You Should Leave
It’s unaffordable for those who don’t sail the high seas.
Those are some great examples of old games that are real lookers, but quite frankly, I’m on a 5-year-old machine, and there are only a few of the latest games that have made it break a sweat. It runs most of the cutting edge games at high settings, high frame rates, and 1440p.
Channel looks onteresting and isn’t only on Youtube, so huge thanks!
Their solution is probably gonna be game pass. Everyone is distracted by the anti-AI crusade but we should not forget the anti-Subscription crusade too !
Destroy entire industries through their corruption and greed; only to wonder over the debris why they are not making any more money. The capitalist brain is amazing.
“Who could have done this?”
Well that’s your fault too. Your company decided AI was more important.
They also fired thousands of workers who could have helped make shit more affordable or even improved Xbox. Now it’s going to be sold off, drawn and quartered.
It wouldn’t actually be so bad if everything else wasn’t fast becoming unaffordable as well. If bills, rent, shopping and other expenses were not already sky high, then we might be able to afford the higher game prices.
Presumably they must think this is a good thing, given they run a cloud gaming platform.
Absolutely. As more manufacturers leave the consumer market for the lucrative DC market, cloud gaming will become the norm as most of us won’t be able to afford hardware at home… and that makes me really sad. We’ll start to see the end of homelabs and self-hosted software, as well as our gaming rigs. Nvidia and Microsoft both offer cloud gaming platforms and are both neck-deep in AI & AI hardware.
We may also see DIY chips and new innovation to bypass the hardware availability problem, but as we become more reliant on AI/LLMs I worry that we’ll lose that innovation. The bubble pop cannot come soon enough.
Just your games actually
Everything is more expensive. Leisure activities are early budget cuts.
Last game I bought were 10€ and could be run on a potato.
If a person in their home can do a cheap fun game in their spare time so can you.
OH I WONDER FUCKED UP THE WHOLE INDUSTRY.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, head of gaming division
Your parent company has a lot to do with that.
What type of gaming? Me over here retro gaming for free for the most part.
To be honest, I haven’t read the article, but games have never been so cheap for me.
When I was a kid, NES games were around CHF 120.-.
Then as teenager they were around CHF 89.- on Playstation 2 or 3.
Nowadays, my most expensive game on Playstation 5 was probably CHF 79.-.
And on my Steam Deck, I don’t think I’ve paid more than CHF 20.- for a game.
Related to inflation, my Playstation 3 was probably my most expensive console.
Now it’s true that the hardware prices are increasing (bought my Playstation 5 at around CHF 500.- and I guess it’d be at least CHF 150.- more expensive now), but games have become cheaper over time in my country (Switzerland).
I don’t know how much the Steam Machine is gonna be in Switzerland, but it’ll probably still be cheaper than a medium gaming PC was 10 years ago.
Prices are already out: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
