Then by that logic, how much MORE irrelevent is this article? Do you have millions of people watching you/reading your articles?

See what I did just there?

"Sadly enough, Jimmy Fallon is rather irrelevant."

To you. Not to Microsoft.

Sony was gonna do it but they backtrack to after Microsoft receive so much negative press for it don't be fooled kiddos

actually its a one time connection at the initial set up to download a patch and then you can play offline forever. obviously if your playing an
all multiplayer game like titanfall your gunna need an internet conection and wont be able to play offline but thats really up to the game developer not MS

Most likely its just for the patch and most people will be all right with a one time connection and those without can hopefully get their systems by someone with internet to get the update (my friend did that all the time with me for PS3 firmware updates and patches).

They didn't pull a PR stunt here, it was reaction to either pressure from now worried Publishers, or seeing the negative reaction of potential customers vs the praise sony was getting (the $100 price difference made things even worse as well) that influenced the decision.

This makes them look bad no matter how you look at it, its the better strategy to sell systems (I know I preordered one after the news) but right now they are looking like clowns.

And you really think that?

You maybe right idk but the fact that jack tratton (i think thats his name) talks about how much he cares about his consumers and in my eyes and among others he has proving that he cares we asked him not to include no drm no always online and they listen among other things to name but those are the main request people had.

Also mark cerny helped make the console and he is a video game devo so might of been thinking how fans would want this and that.. I cant say mark cerny cares about us consumers but he might and jack tratton (again not sure if thats how u say his name) has proofing that he cares.

And just because what you said is also true it does not mean every employe/manager at sony doesnt care about the fans trust me im sure someone in the ps business cares about us and that same goes for xb but not the main guys anyways. As it seems like.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Contractual agreements are not the same as “gentlemen” agreements. If you think that they work with their distributors a month before production then their entire business model is trash. They work with companies like nvidia constantly for building the graphics cards they need. They work with companies that build motherboards years in advance. This is what proper business planning does.

They are not buying components on a whim like a consumer. So again, considering the ram isn’t a singular module and is integrated into the motherboard I highly doubt they wouldn’t have a final schematic that they are supposed to be building around.

If they are delaying production another 3 years then it’s obvious again this is an after though project and is just trying to be responsive to their bad execution they had the last 14 years.

It also isn’t far fetched to use their failure to produce first party titles the last 7 years including the highly anticipated games I mentioned all being cancelled. That they would continue to you know… lie

Yeah with FSR 5 they should be able to offer a much cheaper version of Helix.

Series S is what has killed Xbox Series so... Will they dare?

The factors are largely external. Covid and Russia-Ukraine war causing inflation led to the first price increase in 2022.

Then we get Trump's tariffs increasing hardware prices, AI boom causing a RAM crisis, war on Iran causing a worldwide fuel crisis which impacts the cost of everything.

Gaming doesn't exist in a vacuum. The last few years have been a shitshow and lot of it was definitely avoidable.

LucasRuinedChildhood,

For sure. No disagreement on the external factors doing a lot of this. Where I have to gently push back however is on two fronts:

1. The pandemic definitely caused some issues: asynchronous development was a big issue and really complicated timelines and affected game quality. At the same time, when it comes to price hikes, it's really difficult to know what was genuine necessity and what was taking consumers for a ride. The pandemic brought about "stag-flation" which was increasing prices and stagnant wages, which was a problem caused by supply chain constraints. There was also "Greed-flation", where companies that were slightly affected or had no issues took advantage of the situation and squeezed everyone citing supply chain issues when there were none.

2. It's definitely true that the tariffs, AI boom, and RAM crisis were all things enabled by tech broligarchs throwing money at this caricature of a world leader, one of them being Satya Nadella. I don't think Sony and Nintendo have contributed much to this problem if at all, but Microsoft's Nadella I feel was instrumental in causing every one of those issues. Microsoft as a company contributed to both candidates (though they gave Harris 4x as much if I recall), but Nadella was all in on letting AI run wild. He paid for unregulated AI, and got a war that's not a war (even though Trump called it that at least five times on television) that screwed up helium access. So for me, I feel that one of the players in the gaming industry is a key architect of these issues, and for that reason I struggle a bit to think of it as "external".