I got 1000 games, 200 of which are GOG offline installers.

Nothing but food and bills now as I wait for it all to collapse.

While I'll believe that you have solid storage longevity, prepping for societal collapse by archiving 1000 video games seems kind of unorthodox.

That’s not the next Xbox I mean, but it’s a glimpse at it. It’s clear that the direction this is going is that Xbox moving forward is going to be a Steam competitor and a launcher at the same time. The next Xbox console will be a prebuilt PC. A literal prebuilt PC running windows that can play Steam, PC games and Gamepass at current Series X quality or a little bit better priced somewhere between $700 to $900. Maybe a Series S type performance for $400-500.
Build me a PC with similar performance at that price. You can’t because the GPU market is insane. I’m not saying there’s no pitfalls, but if they pull it off they will sell these things like crazy.

You're thinking of hyperinflation. If that happens in the US you can have your wheelbarrow of dollars. Inflation makes money worth less, hyperinflation makes money worthless.

I could probably build a gaming PC that matches the Series S for $500 with an AMD APU, some Ryzen thing with integrated graphics, no discrete GPU. The Steam Deck makes it work in a handheld format, I can do it in a PC case. Or, go buy used. There's gonna be a lot of perfectly game capable machines being sold off because they won't run Win 11. Slap Linux + Steam on there and you're gaming.

Every game or movie that comes out now is a reboot/remake. Why would I buy that? I already bought that.

The day of the backlog has come!
Portable PC enjoyers rejoice!

Ok, so you think the mass market likes buying used stuff? Because as far as I’m aware the average consumer would rather buy a new lower end device than a used higher end device.

But yes the next Xbox has already been teased as running an AMD chip that will be sued across form factors , so you get where they are coming from. They are not about to let Valve and Linux run with the PC market, which continues to grow while the console market continues to shrink.

This, people still trying to feed their families with 7.25, not out of laziness or refusal to get "real job" but desperation

"You're paid what you're worth!111!!11"

Bitch if human beings were paid what they were worth, poverty would actually be a moral failing instead of a societial one.

next Xbox

If it's really a PC, I bet AMD customized Strix Halo (their 40 CU APU) for Microsoft instead of doing a fully custom chip like before.

It'd save them money (as custom chip tapeouts are 9 figures last I heard). I bet Microsoft couldn't help themselves, heh.

Charging 70 dollars USD for barely 40 USD of content and everyone knows. The only people I know intent on buying all the latest stuff are people into steamer culture, aka trying to be a streamer or interact with them and follow their trends.

Ok but doesn’t every tracking company pretend they don’t track kids’ habits? The whole industry is built on fraud.

That include fortnite skins?

M-discs don't rot, theoretically they're one of the best consumer long term storage mediums. I think the practical issue with them on a super long timescale is keeping a functional reader if blurays fall out of fashion.

Video games spending by young Americans is dropping

FTFY

• overpriced games
• fully-priced games with microtransactions and day 1 DLCs.
• overpriced hardware
• games released broken, fixed later
• Invasive DRM
• Always-online requirements
• annoying ads/microtransactions
• invasive telemetry
• third party launchers
• third party accounts
• Publishers intentionally misleading reviewers
• False/misleading marketing from GPU OEMs

What else am I missing?

BG3 is still from a mid-size studio, Larian is not AAA, they are AA. They are just really fucking good at what they do and are able to pump out AAA quality cause they focus on their strengths, which is making CRPGs, instead of trying to chase trends.

The death of community servers is why I stopped playing multiplayer.

The gaming landscape was just so much better back when communities were able to self-host and moderate before matchmaking and corporate automated moderation became the norm.

Hey, having access to entertainment is actually pretty damn important. What you gonna do to pass the time?

Though honestly, wasting the limited power someone would have after the grid fails on gaming isn't the brightest of ideas.

Not to mention, after the collapse, free time will basically be a rare luxury. Your entire time would be taken up by surviving and maintaining your ability to continue to survive, especially if you aren't preconfiguring a community support network for when shit hits the fan and just going the "lone prepper" route.

I echo this a developer with a top app on the Meta Quest. My USA sales have fallen off a cliff, while other regions like Asia and Europe have increased a little.

I rarely buy new AAA games. Mostly indie titles and heavily-discounted AAA games.