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[German Shocks]

SMH, Gamecube use to cost $99.99 BRAND NEW.

In 1930.

 

[Banjo64]

we were all too busy talking shit instead of investing

 

[RPS37]

Might be even 2029.

Seriously.

 

[VolticArchangel]

Alright Ass of Can Whooping you need to control your girlfriend, establish some patriarchy, and put her back in the kitchen. Wtf is this madness???

 

[Ryseer]

XSX will cost more than what I paid for a PS5 Pro at launch..

that's NUTS

Same

Still she or any other CEO for others consoles makers can't do nothing…

Well Microsoft spends the third most on AI... they're the first to really monetize it.

 

[Ryseer]

Corps are going to follow the money… Our hobby is really is danger this time.

The hobby at this moment is in critical condition.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I honestly never thought I would see the day that our hobby was this fucked and all we hear is its going to get worse.

Critical times

 

[Felessan]

The hobby at this moment is in critical condition.

Only if your hobby is buying hardware
Buying/playing games will survive for sure

 

[Sohurmk833]

The hobby at this moment is in critical condition.

Western AAA bullshit and "high end" hardware are in critical condition. The rest, not so much. You will always be able to make hardware for a mass market compatible price. Just won't be particularly powerful.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Maybe we have just reached a point where XBOX will make more money from selling Halo campaign evolved on PS5 then they will doing anything else?

They are looking at their install base, doing GTAVI math (no gamepass increase here), and they realize the only place to actually capture meaningful new revenue (not recurring mind you…after all…that money is already spent) is moving Halo units. So they decided to aggressively advertise PS5 console purchases!

Now that idea does strike me as something a hallucinating former AI exec would come up with…or they just don't care about gaming since they just cleared a staggering $20+ billion and are just following Jensen's playbook now.

 

[Fess]

Xbox is cooked
Its a shit console at its current price and in last place. But raise prices?
Might aswell fold and go third party for multitude of reasons

They're already third party. Cutting a revenue stream for hw and subscriptions and mtx is your idea to turn it around?

 

[Power Pro]

$500 for a series S is fucking hysterical. lol I'm glad I got a PS5 Pro, series X, and Switch 2 already.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

Totally agree with you

My point was the whole the Series S is the same price as a digital PS5 is something a mouth breather like Jez would say because it sounds very stupid to just ignore the cheaper variant because it doesn't fit one's agenda

Oh, you are totally right on that one. It's like saying the best version of GTA6 on consoles is the Series X, and conveniently ignoring that a PS5pro exists. So yh, totally agree with you on that.

Again, how can they justify exclusives?

They can't... but that's not the point of why they have them now. Which kinda just adds to how all over the place their strategy is. They are simultaneously doing two things that completely contradict each other at the same time.

I think Jez would rather have the Series S be shown in a better light but it seems completely fair and in good faith to compare the 1TB Series S price to the PS5DE price that also comes with 1TB. It's a pretty like for like comparison. Except you're getting much worse hardware/performance on a Series S.

Yes, it's a fair comparison to make, but only in a case where the only option is a 1TB console. It's not though... It just comes off as disingenuous here, being that whoever is in the market for a series s, is likely only thinking about getting into consoles at the absolute cheapest they can get into. For what it's worth, though... and this kinda makes this whole argument moot; the series s also isnt in the top 100 sellers for the Xbox platform on Amazon.

Easy, they know that they will sell the same amount of consoles at this extortionate price. They know that consoles are going to become hard to find near GTA6 release and people will be scrambling to pick up any old thing even at scalper-like prices like this. The sales of the xbox studio game doesn't get affected by this hike at all.

Doesn't that just make a case for why the games should be multiplatform to begin with?

If you have established that your business model is unsustainable, and you have also established that the one thing you need to do to make it sustainable is to generate more money from software and services sales, and you have also established that you can't sell more consoles cause no one is buying them, and that is made even harder cause now the consoles are becoming prohibitively expensive; so there goes the easiest path to boost your sales of software and services.

That means the only way you can accomplish this is to sell on as many platforms as possible. It's the "sane" thing to do.

 

[Life Diff]

Which is smart of them. Wanna play GTA day one and be able to afford a console to play it? Well, then buy a console now, before it goes up in price...

The way people will spin Xbox bad news to seem positive must be studied at Harvard or something