Less RAM, lesser GPU, half the storage capacity, but significantly better CPU, and ultra fast NVMe SSD. No disc drive (no UHD BD). Probably quieter, cooler running.

That’s partially due to supply, but also because of scalpers buying anywhere from 1-10 systems to make a quick buck. If we would all just stop buying from scalpers and retailers than price gouge, then the problem would go away.

Sonic Frontiers comes to mind, too.

Since SA2?

Meh.

I mean, he’s not killing 11,000 people - they’re getting severence packages, and now they get to find someplace else to work.

Guy brings home 26 million a year into his bank account.

That’s almost a billion dollars a year (of decent salary) to pay a bunch of people that, as we clearly can see, are not actually required for the business to exist and keep doing what it’s doing. If you’ve determined that those people are not crucial to the function of the business, and they staying isn’t going to…

I. Had. No. Idea.

Yeah, this.

Are you also including those interactive splash screens/landing pages that have, like, game news, settings, an account login, etc. before the actual .exe starts up? I’m thinking, like MMOs, and even Borderlands.

Two-dimensional metaverses were perfected back with World of Warcraft. Literally just give us photo realistic avatars like Meta is working on, face tracking, and haptic gloves that are easier to use than controllers, and then we’ll be good - on the hardware/look side.

The price of groceries is not even absurd, though. You have to already be living “paycheck to paycheck” for a 40% increase in the cost of milk to bother you. We’re talking milk going from $2.50 a gallon to almost $5, which is just, like don’t buy that bag of Doritos you never needed to begin with. We’re talking a $400…

I know the advertising works on me. Every time I see a cheeseburger commercial, I tell the wife, “They got me with that ad. Marketing, am I right? They did good.”

Their advertising game needs to be incredible if this is going to work.

Won a PS5 in a contest.
Didn’t keep PS+ after the trial. There are games I want to play. I think I’ll just buy them. Used. On Facebook Marketplace or Ebay. Just like I did back on PS2 - walk into a EBGames, or GameCrazy, and just grab a bunch of good stuff for, like, $40.

Xbox doesn’t do generations anymore. There’s hardware for every budget (like PC), actual PC access to Xbox games, and xCloud which can be played on every device under the sun. The best games will be available to everybody.

I’m not going to watch another Disney animated movie after the kids go to bed, because I’m not going to watch those without them. I want to watch those movies with my kids, and then, all the other stuff that they shouldn’t be watching, I have to wait until later to see, myself.

Especially when you consider Epic Games’ weekly giveaways, Steam sales, GamePass/PS+, mobile phone gaming, etc.

First of all, yes, this makes sense to me. Physical game sales will die, sooner than later. Internet infrastructure is going to get there. PC has been exclusively digital for more than a decade, and modern consoles have no-disc SKUs, easing the public into that idea that Xbox One really wanted to do well before…