Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible"

LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  AI datacenters and greed.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We’re also losing the ability to shrink our transistors at this point, so the things that made old tech cheaper before don’t really apply anymore.

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    • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hopefully at least competition can catch up. It would be great to have competitive manufacturing capacity here in the EU rather than depend on global trade (Looks at Unprecedented Event Of The Month)

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        From what I’ve learned on Economics Explained, I don’t think it’s something that necessarily leads to better outcomes than global trade, beyond just redundancy. Competitive manufacturing relies on low costs, which relies on low wages, which favors countries where there aren’t thriving sectors of the economy that pay better than manufacturing. And even once that country is favored, it brings in more money, which leads to higher salaries, raising the quality of living, and eventually making the factory jobs non-viable in that country either. If I didn’t get anything in the above incorrect, I believe that’s called the middle income trap.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Current gen (TSMC 2nm) is like 50% more dense than the last one and I do believe the next generation will still be a huge leap forward, but we unfortunately don’t know what’s going to happen beyond that one. A few more generations and silicon’s atomic size might become an issue, which is WILD.

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  • BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think the problem might sort itself out once the data centers are actually built. The impact from maintaining a data center is probably less than from actually building one.

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If they allowed to build all the data centers around me, hardware be less of our issues. We want have any water left in our homes. They literally trying to build 26 of these fucking water draining things in our area.

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    • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No it’s gonna suck. Those data centers will consume fresh water and power driving up costs of both over the long term.

      The chips will also become obsolete or will degrade over time. After 7 years they will require replacement. Same is true with memory and ram.

      It’s never going to end.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        After 7 years they will require replacement

        Oracle depreciates them over 7 years to cook the books for better financial reports. They’re apparently generally replaced after 3-4 because individual GPUs start failing and the next generation’s improved performance and power consumption will make them obsolete anyway.

        They’re essentially throwaway hardware as they can’t really be resold and repurposed for gaming either despite all that glorious VRAM. They only do compute.

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      • BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Increased demand translates to increased memory and ram production capacity?

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Capitalism

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