schipelblorp comments on RAM to see 'meaningful price increases' before 2026 is out, as the memory crisis is predicted to last 'at least' another 3 years

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

My desktop is 10-year-old gaming PC. If you look at the Steam Survey, it's about middle-of-the-road today.

It's not just PC. It's an open question whether anyone is going to be the next gen of game console, and that's partially because gaming itselfhas been enshittified, but also for the same reason people aren't running out to buy 8K TV's--the minimal improvement in subjective experience is not worth the price.

People are more likely to replace phones because they break than because they are upgrading--partially why Apple and Samsung are doing their DARNEDEST to lock down repairs, so they can drive up the cost of repairs to force people to buy a new phone.

We're approaching a world where we think of what was formerly "high technology" the same way we think of refrigerators--as basic devices that can generically and permanently do a necessary set of tasks.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I always hated consoles, as a waste of a good computer you couldn't do anything with but game.
But I think consoles will be fine, consoles are mostly for children, and they will get exclusives to drive up sales.
But this is a bad time to make a new console, still AFAIK both Sony and Microsoft are planning new ones next year?

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

The economics of consoles are in shambles.

It used to be you'd get highish-end hardware at cheaper price because of mass production and manufacturer incentives (made up for on games).

Now with people carrying massive game libraries, they're less likely to buy new games, at the same time as console gaming becomes enshittified cash grabs, at the same time as tech has hit diminishing returns in an industry where generational hardware sales drive software purchases.

Playstation has a few exclusives, but XBox has literally none--it's all cross compatible with Windows, and almost every single one of those titles is playable via Steam on Linux. You can build an equivalent PC for the same price or less than the equivalent console, and have improved upgrade and repair paths, plus mods, plus Steam sales... consoles make less and less financial sense every day.

The only console that is doing well is Nintendo, and that's because they built around content not hardware.

And that said, most kids are growing up gaming on tablets and phones, and they haven't gone through the evolutionary learning process that a 35-year-old life-long gamer. Chances are you hand an 8-year-old a complex two-stick game and they'll do about as well as my father would.

I think likely we'll have a profusion of quirky handheld consoles, but the big box consoles will be replaced with computers.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -1 points 15 hours ago

the big box consoles will be replaced with computers.

I think you are wrong, the PC is dying, and the consoles will have even bigger advantage from mass production in the future.
Most people don't care to maintain a PC just to play games, and most people don't really have any other use for a PC anymore.
Even without subsidies from Microsoft and Sony, the current gen consoles were cheaper than an equivalent performing PC when they arrived. But in the future that may not be true, it's all down to profit maximization, because there is no doubt a console can be sold cheaper than an equivalent performing PC.

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