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.
I still hate that I bought the series x, it’s an over priced piece of garbage
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.
Who the fuck has money anymore. Trump can get fucked!
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.
Moores law hasn’t been a thing for over a decade. It’s just the AI industry consuming all the compute
Also, Moore’s law wouldn’t be. areason for prices of existing hardware to go up
Trickle-down, right?
Oh, it was supposed to be the gains…?
and apparently MSFT has more than $80b in GPUS sitting idling in warehouses since they haven’t built (if they ever do) the data centers to run them.
I project Microsoft can lick my taint. They bought up all the studies, shut down most of them, cancelled all the good games, raised prices, forced AI into everything, want to abandon physical media and lock us in to their digital store and have a monopoly on pricing… And they still can’t release a console at a reasonable price. 🖕 Microsoft has abandoned gamers, let them suffer when the AI bubble pops.
Atp just buy a computer
Guess i’m done with video games for the next…forever
I don’t think I could ever be done with video games but I’m done supporting the (current) video game economy besides supporting the second hand market. Luckily for me I don’t care at all about cutting edge stuff and I prefer to play PSX, PS2, and N64 games. There are still so many classics from those consoles in my backlog I haven’t even got to yet.
Streets of rage 2, Chrono trigger, Mario 64, burger time, Tekken 3, burnout paradise all could probably use a higher play time before whatever the next m$ slop shooter cash shop they publish or anti consumer hardware
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?
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.
So fucking glad I built a PC in 2023.
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
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.
What I’m looking forward to seeing is how many scalpers that will buy it on the first day.
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.
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.
And how no effort will be made to stop.them.
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.
“Xbox is partnering with Klarna…”
If I’m paying that much for a device, I damned well better have root access. I’m done buying machines that big corpos control.
I’ll bet they do this like a phone plan. Bundle the console with GamePass, and give folks a 3 year contract that is broken into a combined monthly payment for the cloud service and a hardware payment plan.
they did that with the previous Xbox,called it the all access pass. It was the unit combined with gamepass ult which you had for the duration of the two or three-year payment plan I understand their thought process on it because it does do a good job at forcing the consumer to have a subscription they normally wouldn’t have, but in reality, the only thing it did was make it so I didn’t purchase any actual games for the unit, so when their overpriced subscription finally ran out, I had no reason to continue using the console, and it’s basically collected dust since because all of the games I would have purchased, I had already played via Game Pass Ultimate, and I had no hard copy games to play.
To be fair, it would’ve helped if they had compelling games worth playing. There was a brief minute when X / S users were feasting, but a lot of the studios MS bought turned into dud factories.
but a lot of the studios MS bought turned into dud factories.
but MS turned the studios they bought into dud factories.
–ftfy
yea that’s fair as well, I just didn’t see the point in playing a console that I didn’t have anything left to play on.
I can relate. Mine basically just became a Destiny 2 box. And that’s only because that’s where I first bought and downloaded the game. I could play that game on a number of platforms.
Looks like you’ll never pay that much for a device ever again
