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

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Remember when you could get an Xbox Series S for $300? Those were the days. Microsoft has today announced the latest in their console price hikes, seeing their once-affordable system now exceed what the more powerful Series X cost at launch. Set to come into effect on the first of August, you can find an overview of the increases below:
  • Xbox Series S (512GB): $399 ➜ $499 (25% Increase)
  • Xbox Series S (1TB): $449 ➜ $599 (33% Increase)
  • Xbox Series X (1TB Digital): $599 ➜ $749 (25% Increase)
  • Xbox Series X (1TB): $649 ➜ $799 (23% Increase)
In their press release, Microsoft shine a light on the state of the industry, noting that games consoles are being hit particularly hard on the back of them typically being sold at a loss out of the gate. With less headroom to eat costs, they're inevitably passed onto consumers. With Microsoft expecting another doubling of storage and memory prices by fall of 2027, future price increases also seem likely.

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K3Nv4 said:
So what does constantly saying fuck AI change in a company.
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The backlash hasn't been entirely ineffective, more than half of planned data center construction in the US has been cancelled or delayed. Even if the current administration hates its own citizens, people need to keep speaking out against this shit until we can get better representatives in office who are willing to enact regulations on AI.
 
Xzi said:
The backlash hasn't been entirely ineffective, more than half of planned data center construction in the US has been cancelled or delayed. Even if the current administration hates its own citizens, people need to keep speaking out against this shit until we can get better representatives in office who are willing to enact regulations on AI.
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So not blaming corperations that are empowering this behavior is better just to say fuck AI and when prices go back down we go back to buying ram and storage like nothing ever happened even though it could easily happen again. Generalizing is easier than finding blame that's what we are good at.
 
K3Nv4 said:
So not blaming corperations that are empowering this behavior is better just to say fuck AI and when prices go back down we go back to buying ram and storage like nothing ever happened even though it could easily happen again. Generalizing is easier than finding blame that's what we are good at.
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I don't know how I can possibly phrase this to make it any clearer: AI corporations are to blame, and if you take it a rung further up the ladder, the federal government is to blame for refusing to regulate those AI corporations. There should 100% be limits on how many components they can buy, and how far in advance they can buy them. There's not one single other industry that is allowed to continue operations entirely unregulated, and the last time there was, the 2008 economic crash is what resulted from it.

Trump is an even dumber, more corrupt, and more malicious version of GWB.
 
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Xzi said:
I don't know how I can possibly phrase this to make it any clearer: AI corporations are to blame, and if you take it a rung further up the ladder, the federal government is to blame for refusing to regulate those AI corporations. There should 100% be limits on how many components they can buy, and how far in advance they can buy them. There's not one single other industry that is allowed to continue operations entirely unregulated, and the last time there was, the 2008 economic crash is what resulted from it.

Trump is an even dumber, more corrupt, and more malicious version of GWB.
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Ai corperations aren't holding guns to these manufacturers heads and forcing them to buy it's always the highest bidder that wins so there is partial reason to blame both let's not be one sided about it.
 
K3Nv4 said:
Ai corperations aren't holding guns to these manufacturers heads and forcing them to buy it's always the highest bidder that wins so there is partial reason to blame both let's not be one sided about it.
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And do you, as an individual, have the money to outbid AI corps? No, of course not. Every individual that rich is already in on the scam. They're the billionaires trying to put an end to personal computing for regular people.
 
K3Nv4 said:
And as the consumer I can blame companies like Skhynix for not thinking of the consumer and favoriting richer corperations.
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Sure you can, but your mistake there is believing that any corporation ever had an overriding conscience to begin with. Their only motive is profit, and from their perspective, AI corps are consumers, just consumers with infinitely more money to spend. It's like blaming water for making other things wet.
 
Xzi said:
Sure, but your mistake there is believing that any corporation ever had an overriding conscience to begin with. Their only motive is profit, and from their perspective, AI corps are consumers, just consumers with infinitely more money to spend.
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And if they get enough bad press profit starts to sink don't it maybe go back to normal for average consumers? No company takes some derp saying Fuck AI online seriously.
 
K3Nv4 said:
And if they get enough bad press profit starts to sink don't it maybe go back to normal for average consumers? No company takes some derp saying Fuck AI online seriously.
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Nope, because the bad press only affects what normal people think of them, and normal people are no longer providing any significant portion of their profit. The stock value of HBM and storage manufacturers has gone through the roof this year. There are only two outcomes of this in the relatively near future: a new administration regulates all corporations involved, or the AI bubble pops and sinks the entire US economy with it.
 
Xzi said:
Nope, because the bad press only affects what normal people think of them, and normal people are no longer providing any significant portion of their profit. The stock value of HBM and storage manufacturers has gone through the roof this year. There are only two outcomes of this in the relatively near future: a new administration regulates all corporations involved, or the AI bubble pops and sinks the entire US economy with it.
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I think the bad Ai press has been sunk into our minds so bad we can't fathom the people actually making the hardware that runs it doing any good. Quite sad when people want to point fingers but not yell at the actual villain the people selling off the hardware to them.
 
K3Nv4 said:
I think the bad Ai press has been sunk into our minds so bad we can't fathom the people actually making the hardware that runs it doing any good. Quite sad when people want to point fingers but not yell at the actual villain the people selling off the hardware to them.
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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 you look at it from.

If the AI bubble pops before 2028, the current administration will provide a taxpayer-funded bailout to all corporations involved. Which means regular folk get fucked in multiple holes simultaneously, inflation would spiral out of control. Even the most centrist, milquetoast Democrat president would've put far more guardrails in place to prevent that.
 
Xzi said:
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 you look at it from.

If the AI bubble pops before 2028, the current administration will provide a taxpayer-funded bailout to all corporations involved. Which means regular folk get fucked in multiple holes simultaneously, inflation would spiral out of control. Even the most centrist, milquetoast Democrat president would've put far more guardrails in place to prevent that.
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Just saying if Ram/Storage manufacturers had as much bad press as Ai does prices would probably be different.
 
K3Nv4 said:
Just saying if Ram/Storage manufacturers had as much bad press as Ai does prices would probably be different.
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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 of corporations funding each other in a circular fashion, and normal people are left on the outside looking in.
 
Xzi said:
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.
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When we generalize two words of course it won't change anything.
 
K3Nv4 said:
When we generalize two words of course it won't change anything.
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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 they get any better, the people in charge of the government, AI, and all these corporations right now are irredeemably corrupt. Until government is once again representative of the peoples' best interests, we can't even begin to hope to give the others the boot.
 
Xzi said:
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 they get any better, the people in charge of the government, AI, and all these corporations right now are irredeemably corrupt. Until government is once again representative of the peoples' best interests, we can't even begin to hope to give the others the boot.
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Sure we have little power but we could be saying more I don't get what's hard to understand about that.
 
K3Nv4 said:
Sure we have little power but we could be saying more I don't get what's hard to understand about that.
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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.
 
Xzi said:
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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Are you attending city counsel meetings about it?
 

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