I’m only afraid that Gamers will actually fucking buy it, and Microsoft (and others) will learn that gamers will keep buying consolee for almost 2k dollars, and then future consoles will never go down in price. Just like it happened with graphics cards, when Nvidia learned that gamers would buy 2x Titan class gpus (which were not supposed to be a gaming card), and then discovered they could sell a 90 class for 1500+ dollars (and going up with each generation) and the fuckers would still gladly buy it, and that they would also still buy cards with prices inflated at 200~300% values during the crypto boom.
I predict it gets canceled.
I suppose if the AI bubble pops, and memory and CPU prices crash, then maybe it will happen. But, that’s going to be very hard on the entire economy, so maybe it will be canceled for that reason, instead.
Fuck yourself to death, Microsoft.
You can buy a cheap guitar for about £100. Beats Guitar Hero
Or you could turn to a life of crime. Beats Grand Theft Auto
Goat Simulator fans please contact the furry community for advice
Living in a multi-gamer household currently with nine gamers. We would be looking at around $15k to get everyone the new Xbox when it comes out!?
I can’t even anymore.
Even without that price tag, I think at 9 gamers in one household, it might be time to learn the concept of sharing
We all like to play together, but yes we share 4 xboxes currently and also have a couple of desktops, non-gaming laptops and tablets. We will use phones/tablets for jackbox games so we can all play together. We also like to play Fortnite and we will rotate players.
Just keep playing what you are playing now. It does not get worse just because a new overpriced console comes out
Oh I know. I am a patient gamer, I was just postulating what it would cost if we “upgraded”.
Honestly, I am probably moving towards building more PCs rather than updating to the next Xbox.
Atp just buy a computer
Project helix will be a computer with a locked bootloader and gaming only os
I will not consider it a computer if you cannot change freely the OS (even tho it is technically), Macs might have more freedom than that shit…
I’d say that is the distinction between a computer and a personal computer.
The avarage person does not think about the difference so i just remove the term computer directly
Good luck, they barely sell the current one at a fourth of that price, wonder how many dozens can sell of this DRM machine
Oh don’t worry. Fanboizz will still buy it and will say “This changes Everything!”
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.
I still hate that I bought the series x, it’s an over priced piece of garbage
If I’m paying that much for a device, I damned well better have root access. I’m done buying machines that big corpos control.
I’ll bet they do this like a phone plan. Bundle the console with GamePass, and give folks a 3 year contract that is broken into a combined monthly payment for the cloud service and a hardware payment plan.
they did that with the previous Xbox,called it the all access pass. It was the unit combined with gamepass ult which you had for the duration of the two or three-year payment plan I understand their thought process on it because it does do a good job at forcing the consumer to have a subscription they normally wouldn’t have, but in reality, the only thing it did was make it so I didn’t purchase any actual games for the unit, so when their overpriced subscription finally ran out, I had no reason to continue using the console, and it’s basically collected dust since because all of the games I would have purchased, I had already played via Game Pass Ultimate, and I had no hard copy games to play.
To be fair, it would’ve helped if they had compelling games worth playing. There was a brief minute when X / S users were feasting, but a lot of the studios MS bought turned into dud factories.
but a lot of the studios MS bought turned into dud factories.
but MS turned the studios they bought into dud factories.
–ftfy
yea that’s fair as well, I just didn’t see the point in playing a console that I didn’t have anything left to play on.
I can relate. Mine basically just became a Destiny 2 box. And that’s only because that’s where I first bought and downloaded the game. I could play that game on a number of platforms.
Looks like you’ll never pay that much for a device ever again
It’s okay by the time its released us regular people won’t be allowed to exist.
Looks like console gaming is just admitting its strategy is to soak their shrinking player base for as much as possible before they collapse.
Signs that the corporations look at the video game market as no longer a growth market but a mature market.
“No point in trying to bring more people into the market since exponential growth can’t be achieved. Time to milk the players for every dollar they have.” -Some Video Game executive.
And the indies and AA’s will rise from the ashes
I project Microsoft can lick my taint. They bought up all the studies, shut down most of them, cancelled all the good games, raised prices, forced AI into everything, want to abandon physical media and lock us in to their digital store and have a monopoly on pricing… And they still can’t release a console at a reasonable price. 🖕 Microsoft has abandoned gamers, let them suffer when the AI bubble pops.
