Posted by BlueBerry2001 1 hour ago
It's such a shame how far things have fallen since. The Switch 2 is an amicable modern day effort, but still, the industry has gotten much pricklier for the average consumer. Not to mention prices that will irreparably damage the scene.
Any consumer or customer would look at this behavior pattern and think they are far too unstable to put their trust into.
At this point it's time to call it for Xbox. I don't think they'll be around in six months time.
Now they don’t even let you have that.
Now the politicians don't even have that excuse. I suppose they'll have to add AI tokens to CPI. Used to cost $1000 each, now $0.000002 each, average inflation is 2%.
Except they don't even have that because the recent FOMC meeting pretty much admitted inflation is 4% and they don't feel like doing anything to reduce it, but they're definitely committed to reducing it, they swear.
It's going to hurt when agriculture does not see the efficiency gains it has been receiving for the last century or so. We might be at the inflection or leveling off now.
Once they are, they all need to be more and more profitable.
Finally when it’s no longer profitable fire half the people and strip it for parts.
They’re already dead, they just don’t know it yet.
Overall gaming is a dying business. Everyone has a pretty powerful smartphone in their pockets, and there are so many platform vying for attention. AAA gaming is becoming a smaller fraction of the overall gaming pie, so I would expect prices to go up. Mobile gaming usage is up from 42% -> 55% from 2017. Even based on analysis from Steam's data, Indie games are 48% of sales, vs 24% in 2018.
Sure, if one has millions and millions in capital. Because why would an investor put a money in my company that works the way it “should” according to me if it produces lower profits as compared to my competitors?
Bachelor of Science in Management from University of Minnesota
Marketing role at Microsoft 2011-2013 out of college, standard average college grad role.
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There are thousands of more intelligent, harder working, better credentialed, better achieving college grads alone at this point.
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COO of Porch ~2013-2017 - how does one go from a standard marketing role to COO, ok whatever maybe its a smol startup
"After departing Porch, she joined Facebook as VP Product & Engineering for their Messenger and Instagram Direct products."
lmfao - more credence to the fact that most "Product" roles are leeches. VP Product and Engineering at Meta is absolutely crazy at this point in anyones career.
Management Degree -> Marketing Role -> COO of startup (lolwut) -> VP Product/Eng at Meta (cough nepotism? cough)
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COO of Instacart in 2021 LMAO
President of Core AI at Microsoft in February 2024 LMAO
insert "i have no technical ability whatsoever"
Seems to me the one focusing on the gender is you.
> That’s why they gave it to a young man with no achievements whatsoever in gaming and no reputation to build off of
I bought a used Xbox one a few years back. I’m not a heavy gamer anymore so I usually buy the previous generation or even two generations ago hardware, get the games I want from eBay and I’m good. And I was looking forward to getting a Series X, but at this point it looks unlikely unless the brand completely tanks and they’re selling them off to get rid of inventory. Otherwise, my Xbox one is going to be worth more in the future than what I paid, and I don’t want that situation for anyone.
512GB Series S consoles in NZ are now retailing for close to $1,000. Might have an appreciating asset on my hands!
(price is what you pay, value is what you get)