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.
You might still well be able to do that by the time 2028 rolls around, but it wouldn’t surprise me if you couldn’t build one that runs the sort of AAA games that have been used to set consoles apart from PC, and certainly not with the same ease. You or I might well be able to put together such a PC with minimal fuss, but the very idea of buying and assembling components to build a PC is a non-starter for most of the market. It’s more work than it’s worth to them if they need to do that, rather than just buying something ready made off the shelf. And if they decide they can forgo the big budget console selling titles for this one, they would probably just do better to fire up GOG, Steam, or the market of their choice and run the games on the computer they already have. There’s no reason to plunk down $1200 on a new computer, if you’re only going to be playing stuff like reissues of games from previous generations and indie titles.
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.
I’m having a hard time imagining not being able to build a PC from last Gen parts for $1800 that can’t run games fairly well.
You might still well be able to do that by the time 2028 rolls around, but it wouldn’t surprise me if you couldn’t build one that runs the sort of AAA games that have been used to set consoles apart from PC, and certainly not with the same ease. You or I might well be able to put together such a PC with minimal fuss, but the very idea of buying and assembling components to build a PC is a non-starter for most of the market. It’s more work than it’s worth to them if they need to do that, rather than just buying something ready made off the shelf. And if they decide they can forgo the big budget console selling titles for this one, they would probably just do better to fire up GOG, Steam, or the market of their choice and run the games on the computer they already have. There’s no reason to plunk down $1200 on a new computer, if you’re only going to be playing stuff like reissues of games from previous generations and indie titles.