Not surprising, I'd attribute the price increase on the game pass for the first bullet. No great AAA Exclusives on the second, and the third is most likely due to the price hikes - at least that's my take on it.
I don't envy Xbox and Playstation job of pricing the next generation consoles.
That's an excellent point. Another consecutive generation of challenging conditions for consoles.
Has Turing really aged that well, WRT newer versions of DLSS? Because that would be the hardware that MS/Sony would have used for the X/PS5 had they used nvidia hardware. Also assuming they wanted to go back to not using a SoC with iGPU and if they went ARM (to have a SoC), losing backwards compatibility with their previous generation library.
I have a blackwell PC so yeah, but I don't get the performance hit everyone else does (for the appropriate level of upscaling). I'm not saying Turing is trash (okay I am a little bit) just that there is a huge performance hit using DLSS 4.5 on it, where I wouldn't be sure if the juice is worth the squeeze. If there were able to get early access to Ampere (which is the franken chip the Switch 2 uses) that would have been better, but that is squarely in the middle of the crypto boom and at that point nvidia had pivoted away from gaming to DC, so I am unsure they would have been willing to give good pricing for the hardware (which is most of the reason N waited till 2025 to use T239 for S2, they probably got good pricing on such an old product).
Nvidia would not have been cheap for MS or Sony to work with. However in life you rarely regret paying a premium for the best product, but you can regret paying less for an inferior one.
I thought the OG xbox looked tacky when they did this translucent green. I think this one also looks tacky.This is cool. I have an xbox, that is largely unused, so I won't be buying one.I don't expect most people won't be, due to scalpers anyways,
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Maybe, it harkens back to the translucent imac days - I like it
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MS had a "rent to own" model for the Series X at one point during launch. I wonder if they dropped it.I think project helix will be offered on subscription with gamepass. Possibly even bundled with a broadband or phone plans.
I think an ad supported tier would work too. Many affordable Android phones are heavily subsidised by ads and reinstalled apps.
Obviously there will will be an option to buy it outright.
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I can see them trying to do that. Not sure if that will be successful or not, though their gamepass subscription service has largely been successful for them.
The reality is that many people live pay check to pay check. Spending $900-1000 on a console outright isn’t feasible. Neither is it responsible or possible for many to put it on a credit card.
A few months ago I came across a ps5 rental service here in the uk.
They need a plan b then. The issue is that the many gamers pay love service titles. For those titles a series S, PS5 and even a 3060 gpu from 5 years ago is fine.
I had a deal like that through Verizon. This was when the consoles were unable to be found in stores. It was zero interest and they just charged me through my phone bill. It was awesome.
