• bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Haha ok buddy, can’t wait to see you puzzling about why millennials hate game consoles or whatever when launch sales numbers are rightly in the shitter

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      1 day ago

      You…

      You think they care?

      They want people streaming games to phones/TVs and paying by the hour.

      Not subsidizing console sales anymore will make cloud gaming seem more attractive, and that’s where the most money is at

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        18 hours ago

        Google couldn’t make cloud gaming work when the entire world was stuck inside with a sudden desire to play more video games. They were given an underhand toss for the best possible scenario to get cloud gaming off the ground, and it didn’t take. The math doesn’t work out.

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        Looking forward to indie developers who actually want their games to sell optimizing them for older, more reasonably priced hardware.

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        1 day ago

        Conspiracy theories are a trick by big Dumb to make people think less.

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      Yeah, feels like the correct move here would be to hold off with the next generation, if you can’t get enough of a performance jump without increasing prices. Otherwise you’re just offering a premium edition.