Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced
rafoix@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Decades of corporate consolidation only leads to higher consumer costs and record corporate profits.
Corporations should not be allowed to exist above a certain market cap. Break them up. Make them compete.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There’s a very good couple of paragraphs in this article showing where the likely culprits are in the pricing of these consoles. There’s about as much competition now as there has been for the past four decades, but Moore’s Law has broken down.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Can’t speak for competition in consoles, but parts costs have radically increased, particularly GPUs (and it’s getting much more difficult to have generational leaps in graphics quality).
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
The implication for that is new console generations are unnecessary. At most, they only need to refresh aspects of the design to control costs.
And this is a direct result of Moore’s Law breaking down. As originally formulated, it isn’t just about density of integrated components, but the cost of integrated components. That factor is gone by at least an order of magnitude. Nodes are still shrinking the size (roughly in line with a 24 month doubling rate), but they’re not making it cheaper.
www.wumpus-cave.net/post/2024/03/…/index.html