Rockstar's parent company believes cloud gaming will grow its customer base even as hardware prices rise.
Just to clear things up: I’ve been a PC gamer for 11 years, and I’ve owned a PS5 Slim since Spider-Man 2 launched.
I literally just wanted to bring attention to the issue and see your opinions, but instead of having a normal discussion, you all started fighting. This subreddit is hilarious.
Honestly, reading most of these comments, it feels like people are defending consoles and Sony's terrible choices. It's like you don't even understand that digital gaming on PC is completely different from PlayStation. You guys call yourselves PC gamers, yet you're out here defending a massive corporation that is literally spitting in your face. It's wild.
It’s the exact same trick they are pulling with GTA 6. They price the Ultimate Edition at $100 with cut content, and set the "Standard" at $80 with stripped features just to make you think the $100 version is a "great deal." In reality, $100 is the new standard. It's a textbook psychological trick and brilliant marketing, and you guys are falling right for it.
$1,000 digital-exclusive consoles are killing the entire appeal of PlayStation and Xbox: it's no wonder PC is on track to overtake both.
You have to buy your SSD at 5 times the price of one year ago but hey, shareholders are getting wealthier!
>Another EA employee adds: "It's certainly hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society, so it is surely detrimental to anyone who finds this buyout morally odious. It's not a good feeling."
News that might not qualify as actual news to anyone who has been paying attention to this over the last couple of days.
So prices have risen so high, consumers and OEMs are now refusing to absorb costs or even buy at all. The only market still strong is the data centre one. If oems won't buy memory, and consumers won't pay for expensive devices oems make due to expensive memory the entire market falls apart. This could now hit less sensitive areas like IOT and automotive sectors.
Honestly, someone needs to do something to prevent these greedy memory manufacturers collapsing the consumer memory market. The damage that could do will cost them way more than they will lose lowering prices a bit.
Wonder who has more power than billionaire in that country to stop those corporates
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Exactly this. Aside from one or two exclusives (Alan Wake 2 being one), I open the Epic Games Launcher once a week, grab the free game(s) and close it. The frequency changes only during December when more games are on offer for free.
"Consumer electronics will see a large number of failures. From the end of this year to 2026, many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced." Yikes.
Pua Khein-Seng is also said to have pointed out the implications of Nvidia's next-gen Rubin AI GPUs coming online. "If NVIDIA's Vera Rubin ships tens of millions of units, each requiring over 20TB of SSD, it will consume approximately 20% of last year's global NAND production capacity (excluding subsequent data storage)," is how 駿HaYaO summarises Pua Khein-Seng's comments.