I’m saying that the pricing scheme Nintendo has for the S2 ecosystem is not conducive to pushing volume. This is evident to my other comment from talking to my local game store. Console demand is high, while games, accesories and controllers are not. If the average consumer’s S2 library goes over 10 games average for the lifetime of the console, I’ll be surprised unless pricing changes. The people who have purchased a S2 are holding back on other purchases that usually accompany that purchase. The people who haven’t yet purchased and who will not purchase are likely aware of the prices as well. My rural local TV station ran 2 stories on price increases. Even if not all games are $80 each, the preconception is there for quite a few people that all S2 games are $80 each no matter if you’ve purchased a console or not.

Do you think parents or casuals know that, or do you think that they only know of the TV news reports of the console and game price increases? The biggest story revolving around the Switch 2 before launch was the price increases.

My local game store said demand for console is high; MKW bundle being the most popular. The demand for games, accessories and controllers is not high. I can’t imagine that lack of demand to blamed on anything else other than pricing or uncertainty of the economy.

Yeah, turns out $80 for a game will have people only buying must have games or in my case no games at all.

If you can install SteamOS on it, it’ll probably run better

Thanks. It’s why I showed what energy monitors can do to measure usage and make calculations easy. I knew home cooking from scratch was cheaper just from a budget standpoint, it’s just that I has never quantified it. I had done the paralell EV to gasoline cost analysis though, which is why I shared that.

https://healthyfamilycookin.blogspot.com/2013/05/frugal-friday-cost-analysis-of-dried.html

I’m interested to know what power company doesn’t give price for a kWh nor how many kWh you used in a billing period. It was essential when I made the switch to an EV and had to show my wife how much money we saved with electric vs gasoline.

If you don’t know what your electric appliance uses to cook, you can get energy monitors that can give you the exact amount. I have an emporia car charger and a plug monitor for my mower batteries. It’s as simple as setting you electricity rate in the app and setting the view to currency costs. Here’s my recent usage for mowing my yard ~2 acres:

It usually costs me $0.30 to mow and trim a week compared to gasoline equivalent of my old mower and trimmer of just over a gallon per week. I pay $0.14478/kWh where I live, gas is currently $2.899/ gal. The break even for my car in efficiency is gasoline has to be around $1.50/gal iirc.

https://github.com/LunaticHacker/lemmy-terminal-viewer

Librewolf

I guess I never noticed. I always wear a ball cap when driving, always have before wearing glasses. Just another tool I use and have not given it much thought.

Transition lenses are great. Try them for your next pair. They do lag a few seconds transitioning back to transparent when going indoors.

Yeah but can it run SteamOS?

The Voyager app now defaults to lemmy.zip. I really like sh.itjust.works fwiw.

https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/2751/playstation-5-support

All the more reason why I’m glad to be leaving consoles in my past. I’m done with locked down systems and walled gardens.

Might want to consider switching to jellyfin with all the tracking and feature loss going on with plex

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38969273

In this case it was Interplay and Fallout did outlast them.

You must not have heard the dis gamers use for this tech.

Fake frames.

I think they’d rather have more raster and ray tracing especially raster in competitive games.

Still have limited wafers at the fabs. The chips going to datacenters could have been consumer stuff instead. Besides they (nVidia, Apple, AMD) are all fabricated at TSMC.

Local AI benefits from platforms with unified memory that can be expanded. Watch platforms based on AMD’s Ryzen AI MAX 300 chip or whatever they call it take off. Frameworks you can config a machine with that chip to 128 GB RAM iirc. It’s the main reason why I believe Apple’s memory upgrades cost a ton so that it isn’t a viable option financially for local AI applications.

Considering that the AI craze is what’s fueling the shortage and massive increase in GPU prices, I really don’t see gamers ever embracing AI.

If everything I’ve seen is true, then this explains the higher prices for physical over digital.