Prediction: PS6 won't sell over 50 million units lifetime.

[Leynos]

curl-6 said:

Leynos said:

More and more corporations and society in general is not aiming for lower income or middle class people. The divide is larger than ever.  Sports arena's. Housing market. Food. Cars. Vegas. Live events. Now electronics do not want your money. They target 2 whales instead of 10. Those 2 whales are rich. Prices are not coming back down to what they were before ever again. AI is not a bubble. This is the new normal. It's only going to get worse. Nvidia and others do not want you owning anything and that includes hardware. They want you on cloud systems and renting devices. This is late stage capitalism and the beginnings of a societal collapse.

The model you describe is not sustainable long term though, and is wide open to disruption.

Also, you can only neglect 98% of society and treat them like serfs for so long before they get angry enough to bite back. This goes well beyond video games of course, but if the current trajectory of society continues, eventually you get a French Revolution scenario.

I won't go further into that though, at the risk of derailing the thread or getting moderated.

They don't care about long term effects. Just short term profit rise. We are well beyond needing a revolution. No one has done a fucking thing. Why? Because this time we been the boiling frog.