oh people are going to buy the shit out of this. Guaranteed. We can all boycott here, I know I’m not going to buy one, but Microsoft don’t care. Want to know what Microsoft sees?
- Sells well? Hooray profit, let’s give everything back to the shareholders
- Flops? Let’s close Xbox and lay everyone off, we just have an excuse now.
It’s a win win for them. Personally I think most people are going to happily line up at the slop line and eat up.
Let me check between my couch cushions…
No thanks, going to stick with my gaming PC I got like 4 years ago.
Yeah, my steam deck still works fine for most games. And when steam deck 2 comes along, I’ll be ordering one immediately.
“Xbox is partnering with Klarna…”
With these sorts told prices being rumoured I’m not sure how viable this next generation is going to be.
Disposable incomes are dwindling, future economic prospects look…uncertain to put it positively. Parents especially sleek unlikely to spend 4 figures on a console when their kids already have phones.
AI companies ruin the RAM and video card market, so no one runs 200GB models for free.
This ruins the new-game market on PC and consoles.
AI allows people to spin copies of games
Next up,
All consoles fail
All console makers stop letting people have binaries
Gaming as a service AGAINAI companies ruin the RAM and video card market, so no one runs 200GB models for free.
No, AI companies ruin the RAM, Storage, and video market so no one can compute independently, and they all have to stream cloud services which can be monitored by AI, gatekept without the possibility of piracy (or first sale doctorine), unhackable/unmodable, and rented forever.
This is way bigger than gaming. What happens when they can predict markets? What happens when they can move markets? When journalists get silenced, when inconvenient truths are hidden?
Why wouldn’t they when we are so dependent on it?
They’ve been able to move markets for years. High frequency trading bots have caused several flash crashes.
One guy did it on his own from his house in London
If this is the price… Maybe would be nice to have a way to install SteamOS on the console. Or better install any Linux so I can use as a working station and a gaming gig.
It’s funny that you think in 2028 Microsoft is going to let you install any OS you want on any hardware they sell.
Brother in 2028 the only hardware you will be able to buy will stream all your software from the cloud for a rental fee. They’re coming and taking away computing.
I don’t want to live in this world xD
To be honest, I’m learning how to repurpose all my hardware, even my old android tablets I’m figuring out how to make something useful from it. Even it’s just to have a local hosted Wikipedia.
lol.
No discs, no sale.
The people demand UMDs!
Without a disc drive as well. Nah, I’m good
LMAO
Does it massage my balls as well for that price or…
Xbox Elite ControllerRRRRrrrr…
Wouldn’t surprise me at all looking at the Ally. Not to mention the new PS6 being projected >$1k.
It’s okay by the time its released us regular people won’t be allowed to exist.
