return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoMicrosoft reportedly projects $1,200 to $1,800 price for 2028 Project Helixarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square107linkfedilinkarrow-up1280arrow-down17
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minus-squarePratai@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·4 days ago 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.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 days agoMoores law hasn’t been a thing for over a decade. It’s just the AI industry consuming all the compute
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoAlso, Moore’s law wouldn’t be. areason for prices of existing hardware to go up
minus-squaresanzky@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoand 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.
minus-squareDupaCycki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoTrickle-down, right? Oh, it was supposed to be the gains…?
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
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.
Trickle-down, right?
Oh, it was supposed to be the gains…?