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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So now we can finally go back to good old code optimization, right? Right? (Padme.jpg)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We'll ask AI to make it performant, and when it breaks, we'll just go back to the old version. No way in hell we are paying someone

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Damn. I hate how it hurts to know that's what will happen

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Ironic the image is of a switch, like Nintendo has been on the cutting edge at all in the last 20+ years

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Man they are going to ride the pandemic as a cause for high prices until it's a skeleton just skidding on the ground. It's been four years since pandemic supply issues, pretty sure those are over now. Unless they mean the price gouging that happened then that hasn't gone down.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

game graphics and design peaked in 2008. N64 was more optimized than anything that came after. Im so over current gen, and last gen and the gen before that too. Let it all burn. :)

Edit: Furthermore,

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/222c26df-19d9-4fce-9ce3-2f3dcffefc60.webp

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Was about to say this too. Can't tell a difference between most games made in 2013 vs 2023.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Battlefield 1 still beats 99% of games releasing now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Also they’re not going to play Silksong any better than a ten year old console.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

is it just me or this title is weird?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It's not just you. The title gets causation totally wrong. If people made bad assumptions about how technology would change in the future, it's their assumptions that are the problem, not reality.

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