Xbox embracing $80 games and $600 dollar hardware. - Price increases globally.

[Zeus Blue Thunder]

Was that said couple years before release of the 1st X-Box?

There was a period of time when Xbox was the best of the three companies.

It was before Wii released and the Red Ring of Death wasn't yet well known. PS3 was infamously bashed for being far too expensive. Even after the RROD, even with Nintendo getting the lead, it took until the Kinect fiasco and Microsoft no longer giving a shit about their main community for the Xbox 360 to lose the trust of the community. It had a ton of great games (Halo 3 was all the hype) and it was outsold by PS3 only at the tail end of the 7th gen. Sadly, even in that generation, Xbox 360 was still the loser.

 

[BunchaBabyDucks]

I couldn't imagine paying 400 dollars after tax for the Series Shit "no discs and no storage either" edition. Its all hypothetical anyway, noone has actually brought one of these in the past two and a half years.

I’ll be honest with you, I’m not even sure how the one I have ended up in my house. I sure the fuck don’t use it.

 

[Tenshi Eating A Corn Dog!]

I've been done blaming the industry for shitty practices for years; I've been blaming customers for a while now. Most people invested in any hobby that only requires money to get into and very little practice do not care about the hobby as much as you do and will continue to make everything worse for everyone else in that hobby by failing to have any standard for how they spend their money. 80$ games, much like battle passes, much like loot boxes, much like paid online on consoles, etc are shit tests given to consumers that they fail 99% of the time. The standards will continue to lower and you will find people with the audacity and stupidity to try to explain away why when the answer is very simple: the frog was boiled successfully and will continue to boil successfully.

 

[vomitusdeux]

My Steam backlog no longer embarrasses me as much as it used to. I'll literally never run out of things to play.

Not even just that, owning retro consoles boosts your numbers, if that's not your jam go with emulation, you have almost every game you could ever want at your finger tips for the low, low, price of "fuck you nintendo, sony, and microsoft."

 

[Oddjob OTP]

Price of games doesn't matter, the greatest financial minds of India working at Microsoft have calculated that you paying 240/year on game pass makes them more then the slight chance that 4 60 dollar games worth buying will be released on Xbox in one year.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Price of games doesn't matter, the greatest financial minds of India working at Microsoft have calculated that you paying 240/year on game pass makes them more then the slight chance that 4 60 dollar games worth buying will be released on Xbox in one year.

Gamepass is such a failure that Satyajeet Nadella decoupled its performance from his pay structure in 2023.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Rationale for joining the emulator master race thread #246.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

I'm fine with the price increases as long as they continue to give me no incentive whatsoever to buy the new shit.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Good thing there's over 3-4 decades of games to play instead huh? Let's cause a second gaming market crash.

Third, actually. The 1983 one was the second. There was a soft one in 1977 no one remembers. Mostly effected the millions of Pong clones out at the time.

 

[Slav Power]

my VPN costs $12.99

Funny, mine costs 5€.
And I don't even necessarily need it cuz my ISP doesn't give a shit about piracy.

 

[vomitusdeux]

Third, actually. The 1983 one was the second. There was a soft one in 1977 no one remembers. Mostly effected the millions of Pong clones out at the time.

I didn't know about the 1977 one, what exactly happened?

 

[Rebel Wilson]

Never been happier that I decided during covid to download as many roms as I possibly could. It will take an awful lot to get me to spend money on a game that hasn't been out for 2-3 years minimum given these prices. Before Expedition 33 I think the last full retail game I purchased was Bloodborne.

 

[TheHarbinger]

There were strong rumors a month ago that Microsoft pulled its Xbox inventories for its online store despite having all models in stock in their warehouses. So the first wave of higher priced models they are selling and will sell were just sitting in storage for a month while Microsoft waited for their own price increase to finalize. Then they magically started filling in orders again and telling people that they will restock the 2TB Galaxy model at the now ludicrous price of $730.

What are the next generation of Xboxes and Playstations going to cost? $1,500 at launch? Without a disc drive and forced always online? Microsoft's long term plans for Xbox seem to be destroying the brand entirely and rapidly. Xbox might not even survive to the next generation of consoles at this point.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I didn't know about the 1977 one, what exactly happened?

The makers of those Pong clones either stopped making Pong clones or went bankrupt. There wasn't much else in terms of video games at home back then.

 

[Mr.Neutron]

They could stop making games tomorrow and I'd be content

>Hacked 3DS stuffed with every game worth playing + a buttload of DS titles
>Retroid 4 Pro with loaded up with everything from NES -> PS2/GC/Dreamcast
>Steam Account with a retardedly large backlog

Yar Har Fiddlty Fee.

 

[augment]

What is there to play on xbox series that you can't play anywhere else at this point?

 

[grump]

I guess all the game companies are using tariffs as cover to jack up prices, even in their own countries, including blowing through the longstanding convention of having AAA games at 60 bucks that they wanted to get rid of for years?

 

[Niggernerd]

700+ for a streaming service box is crazy

 

[Buttigieg2020]

What is there to play on xbox series that you can't play anywhere else at this point?

Halo 5 I think?

 

[moocow]

And I don't even necessarily need it cuz my ISP doesn't give a shit about piracy.

My last one didn't either; I only used an offshore seedbox because it was unmetered gigabit and it helped with my ratios. I'm on Starlink now (don't laugh -- this shit's fantastic) and I assume they don't want their satellites used for torrenting, but I'm still happy with my SSH-from-seedbox approach to torrenting.