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Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts (arstechnica.com)

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"These price increases have multiple intertwining causes, some direct and some less so: inflation, pandemic-era supply crunches, the unpredictable trade policies of the Trump administration, and a gradual shift among console makers away from selling hardware at a loss or breaking even in the hopes that game sales will subsidize the hardware. And you never want to rule out good old shareholder-prioritizing corporate greed.

But one major factor, both in the price increases and in the reduction in drastic “slim”-style redesigns, is technical: the death of Moore’s Law and a noticeable slowdown in the rate at which processors and graphics chips can improve."

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You’re the one that seems mad. I understand that not being able to afford something doesn’t mean that there is “price gouging” going on. I understand that I’m not entitled to everything I want being affordable to me with pocket change.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well good thing there is piracy to check these bootlicker attitudes at least

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Bootlicker, another term so misused by the left that it now means nothing.

I don’t think the switch 2 emulation scene is going to go anywhere after what Nintendo did to the yuzu devs. Not to mention that now any emulation would have to try and emulate the cuda cores, which has never been a thing in consoles before.

Just save your pocket money for a few years, maybe ask your parents what other little jobs you can do to earn a bit extra, and you’ll get a switch 2 eventually.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"The left" 🤡

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Generally the people that throw around the term “bootlicker” in situations like this, who feel entitled to others work for free or process they choose, are leftists.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think you are suffering from a bias issue here tbh

I am not sure how your political opinions tie to this but sure have fun with it ;)

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 9 hours ago

OK you’re not a lefty, you just use all their favourite terms, make all the same arguments for why the things you want to buy should be cheaper, and jump straight to the sane old insults as quickly as leftists do.

If it quacks like a duck and all that…