I’m saying that the pricing scheme Nintendo has for the S2 ecosystem is not conducive to pushing volume. This is evident to my other comment from talking to my local game store. Console demand is high, while games, accesories and controllers are not. If the average consumer’s S2 library goes over 10 games average for the lifetime of the console, I’ll be surprised unless pricing changes. The people who have purchased a S2 are holding back on other purchases that usually accompany that purchase. The people who haven’t yet purchased and who will not purchase are likely aware of the prices as well. My rural local TV station ran 2 stories on price increases. Even if not all games are $80 each, the preconception is there for quite a few people that all S2 games are $80 each no matter if you’ve purchased a console or not.

Do you think parents or casuals know that, or do you think that they only know of the TV news reports of the console and game price increases? The biggest story revolving around the Switch 2 before launch was the price increases.

My local game store said demand for console is high; MKW bundle being the most popular. The demand for games, accessories and controllers is not high. I can’t imagine that lack of demand to blamed on anything else other than pricing or uncertainty of the economy.

Yeah, turns out $80 for a game will have people only buying must have games or in my case no games at all.

If you can install SteamOS on it, it’ll probably run better

Yeah but can it run SteamOS?

https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/2751/playstation-5-support

All the more reason why I’m glad to be leaving consoles in my past. I’m done with locked down systems and walled gardens.

Might want to consider switching to jellyfin with all the tracking and feature loss going on with plex

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38969273

In this case it was Interplay and Fallout did outlast them.

You must not have heard the dis gamers use for this tech.

Fake frames.

I think they’d rather have more raster and ray tracing especially raster in competitive games.

Still have limited wafers at the fabs. The chips going to datacenters could have been consumer stuff instead. Besides they (nVidia, Apple, AMD) are all fabricated at TSMC.

Local AI benefits from platforms with unified memory that can be expanded. Watch platforms based on AMD’s Ryzen AI MAX 300 chip or whatever they call it take off. Frameworks you can config a machine with that chip to 128 GB RAM iirc. It’s the main reason why I believe Apple’s memory upgrades cost a ton so that it isn’t a viable option financially for local AI applications.

Considering that the AI craze is what’s fueling the shortage and massive increase in GPU prices, I really don’t see gamers ever embracing AI.

If everything I’ve seen is true, then this explains the higher prices for physical over digital.

I wish I had moved to Linux sooner. I was in IT at the time and only saw windows and OSX in the wild. Servers were all windows except for one xserve. I still to this day have no idea what that server did for that customer. My only real experience with Linux at that time was FreePBX when setting up phone systems for offices.

I put OSX on mine. A $200 Macbook mini was a cool project and a neat conversation piece.

If you hear Hell March playing in the background, it’s either an incomplete psychic tower or prism tower

Well shit, was reading the story where they mentioned the crew and it stuck in my head.

As if i needed anymore reasons to not buy any Ubisoft 2k games. Less than 2 years of online functionality is awful.

Edit: I’m a goober

Gigabit ethernet port sounds like an easy vector for a adding a cellular modem for an inexpensive phone

There’s also LMDE which is mint built on Debian instead of Ubuntu. The Mint guys had the foresight to prepare for a future when they’d get fed up with Ubuntu’s nonsense.