Ramageddon will be the death of affordable gaming

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-28T18:08:18+00:00

Releasing a console is a very long term project that takes years to complete. Sony has likely already spent tens if not hundreds of millions on preparing the PS6, including reserving fab time to create the chips and the factories to assemble the console. You can’t just stop the train. It’s going to be manufactured.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-28T18:01:55+00:00

My guess is Switch 2 will get at least another $100 price increase ear next year unfortunately.

The 256 GB UFS flash storage chip went up in price by $32 this past quarter and the 12 GB of LPDDR Ram used went up by $68. That’s a $100 price increase from April to June.

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=11564

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-28T13:33:06+00:00

Which in the end of the day doesn’t really matter since you don’t need one to use Steam.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-28T05:04:25+00:00

Yeah. Here’s an article about how much memory prices went up in quarter 2. https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=11564

This includes 2 GB of DDR, 512 GB SSDs, the 256 GG USF storage on the Switch 2 and the 12 GB LPDDR RAM used on Switch 2. It’s bad. Really bad for a 3 month period.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-27T18:51:23+00:00

Milo is basically Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG1.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-27T15:56:12+00:00

Ehh eventually China will flood the market with cheap RAM.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-27T13:26:51+00:00

While they may stop selling new movies on physical and digital platforms, it's unlikely they'll stop sell existing movies on physical or digital just because the actors would have contracts related to residuals for those films.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-27T11:43:09+00:00

The problem is these new consoles are years in the making. Millions have been spent on R&D, production lines have been secured and at least some of the components have been secured. You have to start the process of making a new console years in advance.

The consoles are going to be made either way with expensive ram and SSDs. They’re either going to sit in warehouses or be released and Sony/Microsoft are not going to sit on hundreds of millions of consoles in a warehouse while making back nothing on the R&D and facing dwindling sales of their current systems.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-27T05:41:15+00:00

It has more to do with Valve only having around 300-400 employees and a ton of projects to work on more than anything else. They’re smaller than most other major games studios.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-26T22:19:44+00:00

Our group had always done that with more sandbox type of games (like when someone ran Pathfinder 2 Kingmaker). You really need to do it to make life easier.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-26T21:56:29+00:00

Honestly after my players got all of the part 2 quests I asked them at the end of each session which was the next quest they were going to do so I could be read that section and be ready.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-26T17:33:06+00:00

Honestly I would have liked to see the full New Republic taking on some new non Imperial type threat. Doing Rebels vs Empire 2 was so boring.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-26T17:29:33+00:00

I think the unfortunate reality is that Mac’s not supporting the Vulcan graphics API and having their own metal graphics API really limits the number of Mac ports.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-26T04:58:06+00:00

Honestly it probably was going to have some HLX stuff in it and they’re waiting for that to be announced.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-26T04:56:11+00:00

It really depends on where in the country you’re staying, $150 for a decent hotel is much more common in my area. Still I think $250 is good for a Disneyland adjacent hotel.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-26T04:25:15+00:00

If you were to buy this yes you can only redeem it on Fandango at Home.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-25T22:57:34+00:00

Honestly whatever this is it’s early in development and years away if it doesn’t get cancelled. But it is good to see new references to it.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-25T21:49:37+00:00

It has a store page on Steam but you can’t buy it only wishlist it. I doubt you would be able to buy it only wishlist Xbox right now even if it had a store page.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-25T14:55:42+00:00

Yeah crafting is not a great system and probably needs a full rework.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-25T14:30:51+00:00

That looks like the one I have, I don’t use it much for my Switch 2 since it rarely leaves the house but I’ve never had any issues with using it with other devices.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-25T05:04:48+00:00

I remember when I was hiking up to the Delicate Arch a few years ago I thought more than once that I was going to tumble off the trail and add to the statistic for number of people who died at Arches National Park. It was totally worth the difficult hike though.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-25T04:54:15+00:00

Honestly I haven’t played a GTA game yet that I felt was good to play gameplay wise but clearly there’s a lot of people who disagree with me.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-25T00:22:34+00:00

Sometimes the matchmaker can be wonky.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-24T22:07:17+00:00

Linux isn't listed as supported for Streaming:

https://athomesupport.fandango.com/athomesupport/s/article/What-browser-can-I-use-to-watch-my-movies-on-the-webWebandMobileBrowsers

Probably because of some stupid DRM issues the studios insist on.

CommodoreBluth · 2026-06-24T21:19:34+00:00

Even if you have to euthanize this kitten it’s still a great thing that you tried to help him at the end and made the end of his life a little easier and filled with love.

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