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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    RIP Xbox it seems. Xbox Will Reportedly Shut Down Ninja Theory (Hellblade), Undead Labs (State of Decay), DoubleFine (Keeper) and Compulsion (South of Midnight) After End Of Fiscal Year (Tommorow) If They Cant Find A Buyer. Other Xbox Studios Expected To Be Hit By Layoffs Bought a ton of...
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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    You can build your own PC on just about any budget, there are even various pre-builts now being sold with SteamOS installed. You can't build a Series X or PS5, nor are there third-party manufacturers for them, so the price of working hardware is all but set in stone.
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    Steam Machine waiting list goes live, starting at £879 with a 512GB SSD

    That, and the situation isn't projected to get any better, price of RAM and storage is expected to double AGAIN by the end of 2027, and companies like Lenovo are warning that this may just be the "new normal." 2030 now seems like the soonest we might see any light toward the end of the tunnel...
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    Steam Machine waiting list goes live, starting at £879 with a 512GB SSD

    It's gonna have the same issue of limited supply, no chance it competes with the subsidized headsets of Meta that are already widely and cheaply available. Then again, who the hell wants to be locked into Meta's ecosystem? Yeah I'd imagine there are certain distros more tailored to Apple...
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    Steam Machine waiting list goes live, starting at £879 with a 512GB SSD

    Steam had 130 million+ active users before PS5 moved a single unit. Sony has wasted the entire console generation pushing live-service slop while Deadlock beats the player count of all their offerings combined, despite still being an invite-only beta. Not to mention that all their best games...
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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    AI hallucinations are not a source, all you have to do is show a single earnings report to prove me wrong. Nvidia is the only profitable AI-adjacent company, and that's because they sell the tangible hardware powering it, not just snake oil like the rest of the industry. For that matter, you...
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    Steam Machine waiting list goes live, starting at £879 with a 512GB SSD

    They're selling it close to at cost, and the issue with adding a retail presence remains that they wouldn't have enough supply for it. As I noted in the discussion with Foxi, Steam Machine is basically one big advertisement for SteamOS now being compatible with desktop PCs, and I'm betting...
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    Steam Machine waiting list goes live, starting at £879 with a 512GB SSD

    Don't be a moron, yes freedom is the entire point of PC gaming, and SteamOS is a free (superior) alternative to the broken vibe-coded mess that is Windows 11. Steam Machine is already sold out everywhere, but Valve is a software company first and foremost. If they didn't sell a single unit, it...
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    Steam Machine waiting list goes live, starting at £879 with a 512GB SSD

    The "Stim Machine" is deceptively also three times the size of the Steam Machine, so yeah, no surprise that full-size desktop components are more powerful than much smaller and much more power-efficient ones.
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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    I don't have quite that much free time lol, subreddits and other forums for your county/city are a good resource for that sort of thing though.
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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    I have, there's one data center opening in my general area that I was opposed to, but on the bright side it's at least re-purposing a defunct chip manufacturing plant which was previously drawing more power than the data center will. It's also nowhere near any residential areas, so hopefully...
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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    Absolutely, I encourage you to attend city counsel meetings in your area whenever there's discussion or a vote happening that involves AI data centers. Hardware manufacturers are never gonna ask your opinion about selling more hardware to those data centers, though.
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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    I can't force you to come to the realization that we have no power over a feedback loop of corporations funding each other. They're not even using their own money to do it either, just leveraging debt, which is a whole other can of worms. Just know that things are likely to get worse before...
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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    They have received that bad press, but it has changed nothing in the grand scheme of things. AI corps don't care about the public image of the manufacturers they're buying from, and AI corps make up 95%+ of those manufacturers' profits now. This is why it's called a bubble: it's just a bunch...
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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    I think you're misunderstanding: regulating how much hardware supply AI companies can buy would essentially be the same as regulating the companies selling that hardware to them. The entire point is freeing up more supply for regular consumers, thus lowering the price, regardless of which angle...
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