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“Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

I have enough that I could go out right now and drop $5k on a new PC build and not have it affect me.

My last mostly full build was in 2016. I'm still on ddr4 ram and just 6 months ago I upgraded my system to a used AMD R 5 5600x processor I got for $150 and an AMD 6600xt GPU I paid $200 for.

I'll play one of the million older games I haven't played yet before I ever spend so damned much on a new build or $900 on a console.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Says the company charging a minimum of $10/mo to play online (Game Pass) when you can do it for free (with the same game) on the PC.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

PS6 and Xbox whatever aren't going to come out for a very long time.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

There was some recent reports estimating 2028 or even 2029, probably because you can't make a device better than the ps5 at current prices.

Either new technology needs to come along or prices need to drop and that's not likely for the next year or two.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Emulating is becoming Easier.

[–] Cytobit@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

I though "accessibility" in video games meant, like, color blind mode and shit.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It's like they're catching onto why the urban legend about drug dealers intentionally poisoning their customers is bullshit. Turns out your sales go down when people can't buy your product.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

They're talking about their own "industry", not the entire gaming industry, right? Riiight?

There's plenty of affordable stuff. But I'm not the target audience for their 50 or 60 € release titles. And my backlog is long enough either way.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I could've sworn there was some girl who was fit .....

[–] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's not affordable because of the indie games competition and no market regulations. Where in software there are plenty of regulations and competition is not existent because Office is given for free to schools so children are learning to use Microsoft products.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

If things going like this long enough, people won't be able to play pirated games too.

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