So 1.5 trips to the grocery store.

So the price of a Steam Machine (that runs as well as a six year old PS5)?

Yeah, no game bought on Steam is owned, just licensed. It sucks. Have to go to other places to actually own it digitally.

Steam kinda killed physical PC games 20 years ago.

And the Steam zealots will come and say, “Yeah, but but you can still buy games on other storefronts! So it’s not like this Sony thing at all!” OK, sure.

But Steam still helped kill physical games on PC.

I appreciate the article points out AppleTV as being the only one without ads at this point. They also have great shows and the fidelity of the video is good.

Tim Cook sucks at this point, but who ever is running the TV business is doing a good job.

Isn’t this the third time it about one calendar year?

Depending on your steam machine you get, it might have empty slots. I think one of the interviews said some will have a single stick of 16 and some two sticks of 8 just because the stock for RAM is so dumb they are taking what they can get.

Exactly like a Switch 2 Game Key Card.

You can still share and trade those.

I’m going to do the same thing I did with GTAV: wait ten years and get it for free on Epic or whatever.

I wonder if you still have to tap X to run like it’s 2002. At least default that shit to the Tears of the Kingdom style where you just hold the button.

Here’s a post about Nintendo raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50. People there are much less “chill” about that price versus this Steam Machine that is essentially a PS5 by all accounts on performance.

In this thread the people may not be AS mean as I was saying, there are people in there going “fuck Nintendo” as though Nintendo wants the bad press from raising prices.

And I’m not saying people should love Nintendo. I don’t really care about that. It’s just always funny to see the juxtaposition between these things. Lemmy is definitely a “I love Steam! It’s my favorite place to license games and not really own them!” kind of community. I get it. But every one of these companies are getting screwed by the same political climate and hardware situations.

https://lemmy.world/post/46580000

The price increases were also a function of tariffs and junk, too. Just a big double whammy.

I think it was MS last year who started off the price hikes. Then they did another this year.

Nintendo had tariff issues right when the Switch 2 was launching then finally upped prices in the last month or so, and Sony just in the last couple of months had to adjust prices, too.

I don’t really think any of these companies raised console prices before the idiocy of the trump admin and the AI bubble, though. Not that I can recall at least.

It’s funny to see that when the main console makers all raised their prices for the same reasons as this thing is expensive everyone was like “Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft are so greedy! They hate their consumers!”

And this thing being overpriced it’s “oh sweet baby angel Gabe, we know the hardships upon thee in thine many literal ships at sea. Please accept my money.”

I’m joking here so calm down Steam nerds.

But I do think some folks need to realize none of these companies want to jack up their prices like this. Everyone wants to make a profit, sure, but AI is screwing everyone.

Welp, really glad I got that PS5 Pro before those went up in price.

My favorite is when outlook pops up a meeting notification about five minutes into the meeting after I’m already in the meeting.

I just want them to take a few minutes and make an iPad app because the default app running on iPad sucks shit.

It was honestly pretty packed with stuff. It’s been one of the better ones in a long time.

That’s a good point that they gave such a meaty (Lanz wants something meatier!) trailer a year out. Thats how you know it’s coming along nicely AND there’s way more story to tell than what they’ve shown.

Until I know differently, I have this feeling like this world is one that could have been “seeded” by another ship from earth and just evolved differently.

But I have zero evidence of that. I just assume there will be some sort of tie into the other games.

However, these characters are just humans and elves and there are zero Nopon in this trailer (but there was a short cat character shown in one split second). Could very well be totally different. And that’s fine, too.

It is hard to think about a game that doesn’t have Mio and Noah in the crew, though. They are so good I wonder how I can even be as in love with any new characters as I was with them. I’m not worried, really. But XC3 was like the mountaintop, and now we are starting all fresh so I just don’t know yet. It’s going to be great, though.

Yeah I expect maybe the first chapter or two to be set at this school and then something kicks off the journey to deal with this “god” they mention. AND EVEN THEN there could be a twist.