If you are trying to say Microsoft is getting ideas from Sony you are sadly mistaken because the kinect has eye tracking tech, and a lot more features that Microsoft never use.

not saying anything about ms getting ideas from someone else(no need to be on the defensive btw), hell even the old ps3 "ps eye" was able to do eye tracking, and also cheap 20$ usb web cam can do it.
http://fffff.at/eyewriter/

I think SMI put their eye tracker into Project Morpheus for demonstration purposes.

They have high-priced, highly-accurate eye trackers, but I don’t think that they are ready for a mass market, consumer-level, integrate-into-hardware approach like Eye Tribe is.

Cheaper eye tracking

There are cheaper eye trackers that are now available.
One of these eye-trackers cost $99.
However, smartphones, tablets, notebooks, and laptops already have built-in cameras.
If manufacturers make some small modifications, such as adding an upgraded sensor, enabling eye-tracking is supposed to only add $5 to the manufacturing costs.

Eye-tracking at this level is less accurate, but it’s good enough to hit larger interface elements, like Windows 8 tiles or Android icons.
If you have game menus with large widgets, you can instantly access them with a “select-when-I’m-looking-at” button.

If you want to select smaller elements, or control the cursor, you can combine eye-tracking with other input methods.

E.g.
Eye-tracking (for initial warping/teleporting of cursor, and large cursor movements) + game controller (for precise cursor movements, finishing with an accurate placement, and clicking

In the eye-tracking subreddit, there’s a video of a redditor controlling the desktop, and surfing Reddit with an eye tracker and a game controller.
Eye gaze is for initial, instant, and possibly large cursor movements, and then the joystick of the controller overrides the gaze-control to offer an accurate selection of the target.
The controller buttons are for clicking.

E.g.
Eye-tracking pointer motion teleport + mouse: eye-tracking for initial warping/teleporting of cursor, then use precision of mouse to finish selection – research paper on benefits of initially warping cursor

Similar to the game controller example, eye tracking can be used to initially teleport a mouse-controlled cursor near an intended target.
Once there, the mouse can override eye-control when precision is needed

A paper called “Mouse and Keyboard Cursor Warping to Accelerate and Reduce the Effort of Routine HCI Input Tasks” evaluates how initially teleporting the cursor with eye tracking in other common human computer interaction can affect the interaction.
They find that adding the teleportation clearly makes computer tasks faster.
A segment of the video has a task that requires the user to click “click-me” buttons that are generated in random locations as fast as possible.
A competition pits a mouse vs.
an eye tracker + mouse.
You can see the performance of the eye-tracking warping + mouse at 2:41 of the video: youtube/7BhqRsIlROA?t=2m41s.
In summary, adding eye-tracking undoubtedly makes interaction faster.

ppl STILL say this? O_O

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".