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[-] Pratai@piefed.ca 38 points 3 days ago

While a $1,200 starting price would be historically high for the game console market, even accounting for inflation, it also reflects a new normal: The slowdown in Moore’s Law and AI-driven component shortages mean cutting-edge gaming hardware just isn’t as cheap as it used to be. This year, the Steam Machine broke the $1,000 starting price, while the 2-year-old technology in the PlayStation 5 Pro is now going for $900, and the 6-year-old Xbox Series X now starts at $750.

It’s super-duper awesome that they were kind enough to pass all the cost down to us.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 3 days ago

Moores law hasn't been a thing for over a decade. It's just the AI industry consuming all the compute

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Also, Moore's law wouldn't be. areason for prices of existing hardware to go up

[-] sanzky@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

and apparently MSFT has more than $80b in GPUS sitting idling in warehouses since they haven't built (if they ever do) the data centers to run them.

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Trickle-down, right?

Oh, it was supposed to be the gains...?

this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2026
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