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That contradicts this:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinas-xi-touts-open-source-ai-a...

So who even knows.

I don’t need it to do it faster than me, I just need it to do it instead of me.

Plus it’s obvious it will get better.

Most of the vinyls I buy are used.

PlayStation is going to release a portable console with docking functionality too. It might even come out before the PS6.

Appalling.

This isn’t the first time something like this happens and I always wonder how are these seemingly smart people earning good money so dumb.

I don’t think I’ll jump back to PC but I look forward seeing SteamOS getting more traction. Windows really needs to get their act together.

I rented a car last weekend that had something similar to this and it didn’t work when I was wearing sunglasses. As soon as I put them on it said on the dashboard that I needed to take the sensor to service it or something along those lines.

Tangential, but I’ve never seen so many people fiddling with their phones while driving as I did in the US. It was pretty worrying.

I think they changed it not long ago so you can play free to play games without the online subscription. Just like on PlayStation network.

But paid online games you need to be subbed yes.

Not budget constrained gamers, which there are a lot of.

Cheapest will be 499 dollars from August 1st.

Another issue is that Xbox game discs this generation are 50GB while on PlayStation 5 they are 100GB.

I think the reason for going with 50GB for games on the MS side was to remain compatible with the previous generation of consoles.

Gamepass devalued games in my opinion. If you “train” your user base to get used to not buy games they will. It also did not help they were almost giving Gamepass away for nothing. You could chain multiple offers and get like 3 years or more of the best tier for the price of less than 2 games.

They never had the user base to sustain so many studios making AAA games under a subscription model.

I read that when they designed the Xbox Series S and X they knew it was going to be difficult to lower prices down the road because wafer costs were increasing every year. Which is why they launched with 2 models from the get go, one cheaper than the other. And even so they were losing between 100 and 200 dollars per console.

Now things are even worse with the RAM and SSD components crisis. The Series S has now the price of the Series X when it launched.

Bungie is not a MS studio since 2007.

I think they mean on console, which has become increasingly difficult, there are a number of PS5s that can do it but that’s only because those were at older firmware versions as far as I know. The majority of the consoles are incapable of that unless other vulnerabilities are found.

The article says the 2nd.

I would prefer a Studio if it does a decent enough job even if throttles a bit under load, way less power usage and noise than those GPUs plus the PC you need to put those in.

Problem is affording the ram…

Why? The specs and benchmarks will show the differences, there’s no marketing around that.

In the hopes of selling more consoles and that didn’t work.

Not sure if you have seen the recent news but things are not looking great there. Gamepass is not making them a lot of money at all. Even after acquiring Activision their operating margin is 3%

Big layoffs / studio closures coming in July, on top of the previous ones.

Internal memo: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/10/next-100-days-xbox-re...

Spinning off Xbox: https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-has-considered-sp...

Yes, even the Switch 2. Nobody escapes this.

I’d argue that Nadella has considered spinning off or even selling Xbox considering how it’s been going for them.

Suppliers have ceased to exist in the past decades for building up fabs to satisfy demand and by the time they went online prices cratered. I’d assume is even riskier and more expensive now.

This isn’t the 1st increase they do on these consoles.

And it isn’t the 1st time they increased it, also PlayStation.

Microsoft said ram/storage increased prices 2.5x since late 25 and they expect it to increase another 2.5x by late 27.

I got a Mac Mini on Amazon in July 2025 for 575€, the exact model is currently 969€ in the Apple Store.

Yes, and seems they are only releasing the Pros and the foldable this year, and will release the base and e models in Spring.

Yeah I don’t think they will touch current models.

This is going to be the 1st increase of a series of increases. I don’t think this will ease in the next 2-3 years.