Wouldn't surprise me at all looking at the Ally. Not to mention the new PS6 being projected >$1k.

No discs, no sale.

The people demand UMDs!

No thanks I'm good I'm not gamer anymore.

LMAO

It's okay by the time its released us regular people won't be allowed to exist.

lol.

Looks like console gaming is just admitting its strategy is to soak their shrinking player base for as much as possible before they collapse.

Without a disc drive as well. Nah, I'm good

oh people are going to buy the shit out of this. Guaranteed. We can all boycott here, I know I'm not going to buy one, but Microsoft don't care. Want to know what Microsoft sees?

• Sells well? Hooray profit, let's give everything back to the shareholders
• Flops? Let's close Xbox and lay everyone off, we just have an excuse now.

It's a win win for them. Personally I think most people are going to happily line up at the slop line and eat up.

If I’m paying that much for a device, I damned well better have root access. I’m done buying machines that big corpos control.

They could charge 12 dollars, I'm still not buying it.

I wonder how long will it take for someone to figure out a way to install SteamOS on it?

Does it massage my balls as well for that price or....

Um, that's okay, you can keep it! Why do old people have to ruin the fun?

I wouldn't buy that for a dollar!

If people pay that I will scream into a pillow.

Retro is where it's at

For $1 though? I might. Disable updates, keep it offline, wait for the first jailbreak and then do whatever you want with the hardware

I’ll bet they do this like a phone plan. Bundle the console with GamePass, and give folks a 3 year contract that is broken into a combined monthly payment for the cloud service and a hardware payment plan.

HAH. Best of luck.

6 years ago I would have said that was nuts, but 6 years ago I bought 32GB of DDR5 for $100... now the same sticks are $500+, so I feel like this is just the new normal and I'm just going to go back to my retro systems with carts and systems I actually own.

ya no pc gaming forever. Consoles are too locked down.

“Retro is where it’s at” is just the polite way of saying the current model is broken.
You’re not disagreeing with me. You’re agreeing and pretending it’s a different argument.

The “old people ruin the fun” line only works if the critique is wrong.
Games you don’t own, 100GB downloads, forced online, and unfinished launches at full price isn’t “fun.” It’s just the current business model. Pointing that out doesn’t make someone old. It makes the people defending it sound like they’re allergic to basic ownership.
Keep the SpongeBob meme though. It’s doing more work than the argument.

they did that with the previous Xbox,called it the all access pass. It was the unit combined with gamepass ult which you had for the duration of the two or three-year payment plan I understand their thought process on it because it does do a good job at forcing the consumer to have a subscription they normally wouldn't have, but in reality, the only thing it did was make it so I didn't purchase any actual games for the unit, so when their overpriced subscription finally ran out, I had no reason to continue using the console, and it's basically collected dust since because all of the games I would have purchased, I had already played via Game Pass Ultimate, and I had no hard copy games to play.

To be fair, it would’ve helped if they had compelling games worth playing. There was a brief minute when X / S users were feasting, but a lot of the studios MS bought turned into dud factories.

That's only if you only play 'AAA' corporate lowest common denominator slop.

My Sega Genesis still works like a charm, and humans still make new games for it occasionally

Signs that the corporations look at the video game market as no longer a growth market but a mature market.

"No point in trying to bring more people into the market since exponential growth can't be achieved. Time to milk the players for every dollar they have." -Some Video Game executive.

And the indies and AA's will rise from the ashes

My 7900 xtx must last forever.

I think they were making a related statement rather than directly challenging your argument. Similar if someone says "modern Windows sucks" and the reply is "Linux is where it's at"

Let me check between my couch cushions...

No thanks, going to stick with my gaming PC I got like 4 years ago.

And then you plug in your Everdrive and a new world opens up!

but a lot of the studios MS bought turned into dud factories.

but MS turned the studios they bought into dud factories.

--ftfy

Just went back to check on two sticks of 32GB I bought in 2024 for $215. The same two sticks are listed for $1600.

AI companies ruin the RAM and video card market, so no one runs 200GB models for free.

This ruins the new-game market on PC and consoles.

AI allows people to spin copies of games

Next up,
All consoles fail
All console makers stop letting people have binaries
Gaming as a service AGAIN

"Xbox is partnering with Klarna..."

It’s not just the economic model that’s pushing people to retro, it’s the creative direction as well.

For some of us the kinds of games we like just aren’t made much now. Which has been partially influenced by monetisation but there’s been a shift in taste too.

With these sorts told prices being rumoured I’m not sure how viable this next generation is going to be.

Disposable incomes are dwindling, future economic prospects look…uncertain to put it positively. Parents especially sleek unlikely to spend 4 figures on a console when their kids already have phones.

Thank you for your cooperation!

If this is the price... Maybe would be nice to have a way to install SteamOS on the console. Or better install any Linux so I can use as a working station and a gaming gig.

yea that's fair as well, I just didn't see the point in playing a console that I didn't have anything left to play on.

Xbox Elite ControllerRRRRrrrr..