It's not 2022 anymore. The top GPU on the Steam hardware survey is an RTX 3060 which is in the same ballpark of what the base PS5 can do (worse in VRAM constrained situations, better at RT and has access to DLSS). So roughly half of the Steam userbase is likely using a system that's on par with the PS5 or better.
One thing you never do is tickle Markorian soynys hate boner, thats like putting your naked ass in a bee nest. You have been warned.
Sure I agree and below the 3060 its starts trickling down to worse cards until the eventual 2% of a 70 or 80 card
>Steamtrooning
I'm motivated mostly not by my hate for what sony has become, but my love for what they used to be, and the knowledge of how easy it would be for them to go back to at least SOME of what once made them great if they gave the tiniest iota of a shit.
I share your hate/love, brother. I feel the same way for Xbox but I know that any chance of them re-kindling the greatness of 2001-2008 is long gone and dead. Feels bad bro.
Any sensible company would have either spun playstation off and sold them, or shut them down outright, with the disaster the ps3 was. People don't usually see the full extent of damage the ps3 did to sony as a whole, because the top brass overall were all former playstation people who treated the division with absolute kid gloves and gave it additional chances at every turn, and would do anything they can to shift as many of the losses to other divisions. One of the big things is the fact that when the ps3 released, even a year after the 360, something like a third of a percent of households in the US had an hd capable tv. Sony's big plan was that with every FIE HUNNID NINEY NINE YOU ESS DORRAH ps3, they'd also sell a $3000-4000 sony hdtv. Instead, they helped samsung sell a LOT of $1200 hdtvs. As much loss as they could play a shell game with the numbers was shifted over from playstation to the consumer electronics division during that time.
And yet, having not done that, Playstation has now recovered, become extremely profitable and been the one thing driving Sony forward as the tv and computer divisions failed. Guess those execs know a lot more than you do afterall.
To be fair to Sony, the PS3 was a re-attempt at the Phillips CD-i. It, like the CD-i, was ahead of it's time with tech and was just too expensive. Something Sony hasn't learned from.
I think they're in losses, or skirting it. They've chucked away billions and are only surviving on 3rd party MTX. As soon as that ends, and it will, they'll be stuck in the same position as Microsoft; fighting over 3rd party scrap.
It hasn't recovered. It did during the PS4 era and at the start of the this gen, but the last 3 years it has been a disaster.
Playstation has ridiculously poor profit margins, rendering them extremely vulnerable to even the slightest market shifts, and would be over $5 BILLION in the red every single year were it not for taking 30% off the top of every cod lootbox, genshit pull, fortnite purchase, and every kid stealing their parents credit card for robux done over psn. When you get between $8 and $10 billion a year in what's essentially free money with zero risk and negligible cost for being a glorified payment processor and still post margins these slim, that's not a healthy business. When you add up the way costs and losses associated with the ps3 were shifted around to other divisions, ps4 and ps5 combined haven't come close to digging the company out of the hole it left.
If things were actually good, sony wouldn't be trying to shy away from profits, sales numbers, and actual profit margins in their shareholder meetings and trying to steer everyone towards bizarre comparisons with peloton and instant pot, graphs that collate social media interaction without labeling any of the axes, "monthly active users", and all the other nonsense they spend a shit ton of time and energy on trying to get people paying attention to over their hard numbers. But sure, a business model that relies on kids stealing their parents credit cards and hoping they don't charge it back is very healthy, and it's very normal for a business to be given almost $10 billion in basically free money and barely make $3 billion in profit overall after that, not even counting all the shit they raised the prices on.
I don't know what shit you're on about, they've been very up front about their sales and profits recently.
AMD is in a fantastic position right now in a lot of ways -- their CPUs are straight-up better (in all factors -- speed, temperature and energy consumption) than Intel's, and their commercially-available (i.e. consumer- and pro-grade) GPUs are a substantially better value proposition even if they're not the fastest in raw numbers since they're much less expensive comparatively speaking than nVidia's offerings.
remember that amd never loses a opportunity to lose a opportunity.
What are you talking about? The RX 9060 has 16GB and can be had for under $450. The RX 9070 also has 16GB and looks to be going for under $700.
the 8GB version in fucking 2025 and the retarded press message about it's existence, do you need glasses nigga?
I just showed you the 16GB version of the RX 9060 and 9070; those are the flagships, not the 8GB versions.
I'm not sure this is really true, Intel has a good plan with their tile architecture which can drive down COGS and give them a lot of flexibility on pricing. Even their previous gen chips are really killer in low end high volume laptop markets, I recently bought a chromebook for my daughter and it has an 8-ecore intel chip giving perf that would be unthinkable at the pricepoint not that long ago, doesn't even get warm.
and i was mentioning their 8GB versions, nigga.
partially right, xeons are alright for the price especially if you consider how they trickle down on the chinese market but the regular intel cpu is too hot for a regular consumer and they ain't into watercooling to handle the mini-heater unlike ryzens.
