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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:
Are you attending city counsel meetings about it?
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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 nobody has to deal with noise and water pollution.

If the haves keep pushing the have-nots further into poverty, I think the backlash will grow most extreme in rural areas. I've read stories about data centers evicting whole trailer parks, forcing homelessness on all the tenants. I can't say I'd blame any of those people for a little destruction of property at that point.
 
Xzi said:
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 nobody has to deal with noise and water pollution.

If the haves keep pushing the have-nots further into poverty, I think the backlash will grow most extreme in rural areas. I've read stories about data centers evicting whole trailer parks, forcing homelessness on all the tenants.
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You should post public information for these events could be users willing to go.
 
K3Nv4 said:
Are you attending city counsel meetings about it?
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Not me, but my friend does all the time, she gloats about being a "Karen" about data centers and 5G antennas being too close to her house. lol

I think there is a 5G antenna down the street from me, but IDGAF.
 
Marc_LFD said:
Yes, she is good looking.

M$ really wants to kill the Xbox brand and keeps hiring incompetent people for that role.
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In spite of the fact that she is widely seen as one of the most competent people in the industry and one of the 3 most successful companies in history also views her that way and has promoted her for that reason. She's been on the job all of four months, and you female-hating incels are already ignorantly throwing around insults, this time because Xbox have increased their prices like every other console maker.


Please be less pathetic in the future, incel gamerboys. It's embarrassing even by your standards.
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Xzi said:
Yep, there's not a single profitable AI model out there, and yet they think it'll somehow be more profitable than the gaming industry as a whole within a few years. Way more money than sense.
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Typical AI ignorance. I know you don't trust it, but if you ask AI whether or not any AI models are profitable, it will confirm that many already are and cite examples. But what you also clearly do not understand is that this is a giant land grab. Just like the Web was in the late 90s. Back then virtualy NONE of the Web-based startups were even trying to be profitable. I won't explain further since you are more than capable of asking ChatGPT to explain it to you, but AI is FAR more important than the little gaming industry ever was or will be. No matter how much you hate that undeniable fact, it will be with you and I for the rest of our lives.

Pounding our collective fists about it changes nothing. The takeover of humanity by AI is inevitable and exactly what the billionaires who pwn this world want. And they get what they want because of the way that you vote, and because of what you will (and will not) actually fight to the death for.
 
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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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Its the same orange man granting these firms tax breaks while making record high earnings to enrich the few handful of investors while making the life of the normies miserable. Its easy to see why these companies have much say in the government when they lobby to pass legislation in their favor. What's upsetting is that the same offenders is up to their old tricks when they tried this back in 2000 with DRAM price-fixing scandal. I don't see much of a difference of what is happening today except for the blue unicorn called AI.
 
While a Series S is more powerful that a Switch 2 in a lot of games, it isn't worth freaking 500 dollars more so being a digital only console
 
SaudiCraft said:
Its the same orange man granting these firms tax breaks while making record high earnings to enrich the few handful of investors while making the life of the normies miserable. Its easy to see why these companies have much say in the government when they lobby to pass legislation in their favor. What's upsetting is that the same offenders is up to their old tricks when they tried this back in 2000 with DRAM price-fixing scandal. I don't see much of a difference of what is happening today except for the blue unicorn called AI.
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No administration has been interested in fixing this it's definitely not unique to Trump. As you say, when a memory company like Micron can operate at 85% gross margin with monopolistic impunity then it's a disaster waiting to happen. If not AI then it would've been something else eventually. The only solution would've been to allow other players into the industry but where's the kickback coming from then. Going forward, a couple of Chinese manufacturers are going to be in a position to compete soon which has a chance of disrupting this little circlejerk. At least, as far as the consumer market is concerned anyway.
 

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