Thank you for that. It seems like keeping consoles in that pricing sweet spot would be important, because the closer you get to PC pricing territory the more people are going to peel off to that world.

But can they do that and keep it at the $500-600 price point?

That’s my thought. I’ll have to see what the improvements are. 4K felt worth it for me with the PS4 Pro, but if it’s just 4K60 (or 4K60 with raytracing and 4K120 without) it won’t.

Well, if they’re employees of a company selling his product their job is, in a sense, help this guy (and many other corporations) make money.

with a specific release strategy that Sony Pictures Entertainment promises to be “innovative and groundbreaking”

That’s what he always tells me. It’s a different set of criteria for me, of course, since my use case is a lot narrower. I’m not even a hobbyist, much less a professional.

If it’s the same mini-nuke as the original, it looks cool on a shelf. That’s really its primary purpose, I think, much like a lot of the stuff on the Gear Store; it just also comes with codes for the games.

Inside is nothing other than seven pieces of cardboard, and not actually any copies of any of the games, despite the first few of them easily fitting on a Dollar Store thumb drive. So, technically, what you’re buying here could be an email.

I preordered it. My son has the original version, which has (IIRC) 1, 2, 3, and New Vegas. I hope it’s the same mini-nuke, because it’s nice and well constructed. It says that it makes the bomb sound like the original, so that’s encouraging.

I have a friend who’s been a professional photographer for decades and he’s strongly considering getting an iPhone just for the camera. There are situations where that (or one of the fantastic cameras on, say, Samsung phones) are more than enough for the specific shoot he’s on, and it both baffles and frustrates him…

I don’t disagree overall, but a big (IMO) part of the problem was the decision to not only make it a reboot, but to follow the same overall story arc and many of the same beats as the original. That’s a recipe for disaster because there will be inevitable comparisons to the original. Is it possible to do that well?…

Mystery Men, too. That movie set out to lampoon superheroes in general but ended up specifically lampooning a film superhero zeitgeist that mostly didn’t exist yet.

It says they’re only making 1000 pairs, but saying that to create artificial scarcity and then mass producing hundreds of thousands of them, if not millions, would be totally on-brand.

But again, I’ve seen no indication that they’re planning on adding an optical drive to the Series S. Everything I’ve seen indicates that it’s going to be almost exactly the same.

I moved past that ages ago, and many of my friends did as well.

“Sustaining the creators” is laying it on a little thick. Like any corporation, Microsoft wants to “sustain” them in the same way that the Matrix sustained humans.

I seriously doubt that Microsoft (or any other giant corporation) cares whether or not that kind of move would annoy current customers. If they feel that it will make them more money they’ll do it even if it alienates some small portion of their player base.

Ellewood doesn’t have an optical drive, at least not according to any of the leaks I saw. I’d be surprised if they added a part that would increase manufacturing costs (even if only marginally) on their cheaper and lower-powered model, and that doesn’t even factor in their clear overall push to digital-only.

Would ARM processors be an option for future consoles? I know that several manufacturers are looking to get in on that action, and Apple’s M-series CPUs range from very powerful to ludicrously powerful so I presume the Qualcomms and Samsungs of the world will be following suit.

I came into the show with a pretty high opinion of SMG and I’ve tried really hard to give her the benefit of the doubt. I think at this point the best I can say is that maybe this particular role isn’t one she’s suited for.