Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028

• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you play Call of Duty every release?No? Because millions of people do.Do you think your actions are offsetting that?Because they are not. Nobody is going to sell hardware to a couple thousand folk who won’t get in with the times.

  Based on your tone, you come from the Randy Pitchford school of public relations.

  If you’re uncertain about what I’m getting at, my recent spending on Borderlands, and Borderlands related goods, averages out to zero dollars and zero cents.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m telling you that we are in a minority.

    And that unless we can convince at least 50% of gamers to not buy into that, we lost.

    EA should have been bankrupt twenty times over, but people keep buying their games.

    Same as with everything.

    I keep fighting, but this fight has been lost since the start.

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    • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m telling you that we are in a minority.And that unless we can convince at least 50% of gamers to not buy into that, we lost.EA should have been bankrupt twenty times over, but people keep buying their games.Same as with everything.I keep fighting, but this fight has been lost since the start.

      I understand your thesis, but am offering mine as a wholesale replacement instead of a rebuttal:

      1. The entire gaming industry produces non-essential goods.

      2. No one video game, nor the entire industry, have a monopoly on entertainment.

      3. I dictate what products and services I want, the video game industry does not.

      4. If the industry doesn’t produce products that I want, the industry gets zero of my entertainment dollars, or attention.

      5. I can and will spend my entertainment dollars elsewhere, and have experienced zero stress as a result.

      Why “fight” an industry that needs you more than you need it? They cannot stop me from disregarding them, which certainly makes getting money out of me a challenge.

      I cannot stress enough how much of a Them problem this actually is.

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m just trying to explain to you that YOU might do your thing, but YOU do not sway the industry.

        I’ve known and understood the dangers of dark practices, yet those companies were rewarded regardless of me not buying into them and warning others.

        All I’m saying is that you and I represent an insignificant minority of money in gaming, and if the majority won’t shop for PC hardware, that will cease to be sold. Completely. You and I will not change that.

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How have we “lost”?

      I don’t think Indie games are going anywhere. If anything, this is probably an opportunity for them to feast.

      The big AAA titles that, by our own admission, we already aren’t playing? They may go a different direction that we don’t like, but they also aren’t a product (or service, as it may become) for me.

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Again: if majority of players stop buying PC hardware, it will not be sold AT ALL. That’s it. Indies will fade slowly after.

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