What it all comes down to is simple.
Trump wanted to rush it for his birthday and likely pushed the contractor into saying it would work
That’s true… And its not a good thing either,
Sorry, but this sounds like its half bs.
It probably has less to do with “rejecting” or anything to do with RAM, and more likely to do with all the embedded systems running it, or lazy people who don’t upgrade simply because they don’t need to
I know lots of people running old versions of Mac OS, and it is because their hardware doesn’t support newer, and it works fine for their usecase. They’re not thinking about the hardware in any way.
In fact, in contrast to MacOS, Microsoft actually offers this extended support option, whereas Apple tells its users to get f’ed fairly quickly (yet another reason NOT to use MacOS / Apple. You pay a premium for hardware they often don’t support for long). Also, Ubuntu offers 15 years now support for LTS (which is crazy).
I use Fedora btw.
That’s why I sold my Xbox and ps honestly and moved back to steam. I’ve got hundreds of games, many I’ve barely played.
I thought you were joking at first… AI said our company owned and operated a competitor. We had to waste time and effort telling them AI is full of shit, and arguing with people that AI was wrong.
And, on a regular basis, I have to tell people that what AI told them for support, is also bullshit. I actually had a case where I was logged into a users machine, and he literally took the logs I was copying (right in front of me), and threw it straight into claude.
The problem with AI, is that it doesn’t necessarily have a good idea of what a reliable source is
Also, I might be wrong, but fairly sure the pricing for this isn’t that dissimilar to what I paid for my NUC 14 Pro+ too at the time.
Also, if I bought the games I have now on Steam on the Playstation store, fairly sure I’d be paying a huge premium that far exceeds any price difference, as there is very little incentive for Sony to do any discounting in theirs (as long as the premium is only a bit higher), as nobody compares prices of games across platforms
Steve from Gamers nexus already did an analysis and found an equivilent PC costs about that much anyway (unless you want a massive ATX case in your lounge). Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo can sell their systems below cost and get it back by forcing you through their store… In fact, thats why the XMBC was so harmful to microsoft, because people could buy heavily underpriced hardware and use it as a media centre (and, that cost Microsoft money).
Since this is an unlocked PC (that even runs linux), it has to be sold above cost, or every Cryptobro/AI-bro will buy them and use and run windows (or whatever). Don’t confuse it with some completely locked down garbage…
Not all gamers are playing 4K Raytraced games. If you look at the charts: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/ the most popular games aren’t that intensive.
Also, we can play games we bought 20 years ago. My Wii U games won’t even run on a switch unless I rebuy them (and the joycon’s on the Switch 1 mostly all drift eventually).
All the games I want to play all run fine on my Rog Ally X. So, even a steam machine is sufficient for me (but, I have a dock for my Ally, so, I don’t need one)
Maybe you should check the context of the full thread…
But they haven’t…
This isn’t a luxury controller, and its priced lower than the Xbox Elite controllers. Furthermore, they’re not taking preorders, so the sales aren’t confirmed.
If they were selling them at 2.5x the price, it would make sense to maintain a level of “prestige” and luxury surrounding them… They’re not though, and the high demand already exists.
There are more likely specific chips on them that are constrained for now (because unlike Nintendo, they aren’t using cheap garbage that drifts after 6 months and overpricing the controller)
If it was some marketing thing, you’d take refundable pre-orders.
That doesn’t translate into extra profit at any point. And it would just give competitors a chance to start copying it
Trump doesn’t have friends… don’t underestimate the possibility that they warned Trump. And he said to ignore the warning
Otherwise Trump would be suing already…
The contractor clearly has some kind of leverage, which is preventing Trump from blaming them… And I suspect thats a number of witnesses who can confirm they warned him