... I just didn't care ;)

I'm not interested in the whole motion-control hype that's now going on, and I doubt I'll be interested in it when I can use it with my PC or a modded/linux PS3...

and state why I don't want it. You are hilarious Yi-Long. "I have no interest whatsoever, but I am here talking about it."

That is like hating ballet but showing up at a performance to tell everyone how much it sucks and that you don't like it.

Good one.

Im the sort of mofo that probably would go to a Ballet thing and tell every other sad mofo how much Ballet sucks and theres a million other things u could b doin instead

Bunch of small breasted women hoofin (made up word) around to soppy music, NO THANK U

All this does is save MS money - they are in the PC business first and they would have had to do this anyway.

PS1: Sony was in the right place at the right time. Introduced a console at a time when Nintendo was strangling devs with fees as well as limiting them creatively as the user base was maturing.

PS2: Enabling the DVD drive to play DVDs movies out the box when standalone players cost twice as much. Gave a healthy boost to the DVD industry in general and why at one point the PS brand was supporting all of Sony for a while.

If Sega had done the same with the Dreamcast or MS the Xbox1 they probably would have done better.

Except, more than likely, if Kinect is a true success they'll likely want to push a different model of Kinect for PCs.

Part of the reason they made it so you need an adapter for old Xboxs. Didn't use a standard USB plug.

For the old xboxs controllers you could cut the cord and make teh connection with a standard usb plug and it worked just fine

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".