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Modern gaming seems to be getting less affordable by the day, and everybody seems to want the industry to put technological progress on pause for a while. Mostly that means delaying the next-gen consoles (which probably won t happen) or just sticking with ancient PCs for a little while longer. Some people have gone further than [ ]
The whole situation with Xbox, Sony s impending abandonment of physical discs, increasingly chaotic reports about AAA game development, and rising prices because of the memory crisis seem to have everybody worried that another market crash is coming. I don t wanna try to predict the likelihood of that, and envisioning what kind of game industry comes [ ]
I don t know if Xbox Mode is out on all Windows 11 PCs yet, but I just noticed it showed up on both my systems, so I messed around with it a little bit. Microsoft finally solved one of my living room PC s biggest problems, but they got a long way to go before they [ ]
Xbox s reset, that is, laying off thousands of people, letting go of five studios, and canceling the PlayStation versions of a couple of games, has people wondering if Microsoft also reset its plans for the next console. Maybe, but I don t think so, mainly because I don t know what else they could do to improve [ ]
That petition for Sony to reverse its decision to stop manufacturing PlayStation discs isn t gonna do anything. They already started tearing down that manufacturing apparatus. Government regulators also aren t gonna force Sony or Microsoft to keep selling games on discs. The most we might get is some kind of antitrust court case that forces Sony [ ]
Xbox s new strategy actually makes sense on paper, but those 3,200 layoffs, the extent of the damage from which we won t know for months, might defeat the point of that whole strategy. It s mostly the spreadsheet-based meat-cleaver playbook we were afraid was coming, but it s also the beginning of an Xbox we ve never seen before. [ ]
Ending the production of physical PlayStation discs starting in 2028 seriously raises the likelihood that the PlayStation 5 will be my last PlayStation. I knew this would happen eventually, I just thought we d get one more console generation with disc drives. Now that that day is staring us in the face, I feel like it ll [ ]
If you know how to build a PC and install an operating system, you aren t the Steam Machine s target audience. If you just wanna pay the latest AAA games with good graphics and performance at the best price, you re better off buying a console. Yes, you can technically buy or build a faster PC for [ ]
Looks like we re back in the Xbox doom cycle. We don t know how bad the layoffs are gonna be and which studios are getting closed, but we know they re coming. Right after Microsoft showed us a pretty good reel of upcoming games we re back to wondering if their game business will even survive the next [ ]
Coming out of the 2026 not-E3 presentations, I m more convinced than ever that all the game industry has to convince people to buy new consoles are next-gen sequels, remakes, and remasters of games they already like. That makes perfect sense, and those sequels will probably be good games, but it still feels like a shift [ ]