Yeah console is done. Nothing these companies can do is too far for y'all if you people are ACTUALLY buying two SIXTEEN year old video games with NO UPDATES for $40 DOLLARS EACH with a separate purchase of DLC for $30. EACH. $70 PORTS. Y'all are farmed cattle GG.
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Harsh reminder:
Shuhei Yoshida, the previous Head of Playstation, cared a lot about the customer. He was the one who made sure the PS4 had physical shareable discs that you could lend to friends or buy/sell used.
Then one day, the then President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan kicked Shuhei Yoshida out of the position of Head of PlayStation in 2019 because Yoshida disagreed with his direction for the company.
In hindsight, Jim Ryan’s “direction” became Playstation’s obsession with live service. Yoshida presumably told Ryan that it was a bad idea, and turns out, it was.
With Shuhei Yoshida gone, Hermen Hulst took his place.
After that, Playstation changed - the gutting of Sony Japan Studios in 2021, censorship of Japanese games ramped up, the live service, and the increase in consumer-hostile decisions such as PSN+ price hikes, removing games and movies from your library…
And now the decision to abandon physical discs by 2028.
When you look back at what made Playstation start to rot, it always started when Sony Interactive Entertainment moved its operations to California…and having leadership who want to do everything in their power to get rid of what made Playstation special.
You will never get another Shadow of the Colossus, another Bloodborne or a Gravity Rush - and you have people like Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst to thank for it.
30 fps on a Zelda game made for a 2012 console
“Lmaooo fuck Nintendo and their games they suck ass”
30 fps on the 2024 900$ PS5 pro (as rumoured)
“Here’s a 2300 word speech on why 30fps is ok in games, who disagrees is a dumbass”
Your post reads like a corporate script designed to justify the transition to subscription-based computing. This post is likely part of an exposure effect campaign to normalize the idea 'Compute as a Service.'
Don't pretend you understand the 'you'll own nothing' meme to make light of what you're trying to say here.
You're wrong.
And you're using a random usage statistic to justify it.
You're framing 'idle time' as an inefficiency, but that fundamentally misses the point of ownership. My hardware doesn't owe anyone a minimum utilization rate; it exists to be available exactly when I need it, not when a data center needs to monetize it.
Up until quite literally 2 months ago I was still using a 1080ti which was purchased on launch.
I don't care that you personally know someone who got rid of their PC because they don't use it. The one-off examples of wage slaves don't concern me.
Your TCO math is a joke because it ignores rent-seeking. You're trading long-term ownership for a fragile, temporary rental service that only exists as long as a company deems it profitable.