His next pivot will probably be into emerald mining.

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”

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.

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.

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.

Yep. I don’t know if he’s trying to be coy or what but this is not the time to be overly precious about this stuff.

FFS.

SAAS is Microsoft’s sole goal, it’s no different for the xbox devision.

I think they’ll almost certainly continuing making Xbox-branded hardware for exactly that reason. The question is what it will actually be. It could be an actual console like they make today, and if I were a betting man that’s what I’d put my money on.