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Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

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Re: Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

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Post by inigyou »

kiddico wrote: post #23
rustcleaner wrote: post #21

I'm sure it applies to Xbox too, but I priced out today's PS to the PS1 and it closely follows the inflation rate that M2 has undergone. M2 expansion is the prime driver of prices, after supply & demand. Normalize SPX, gold/silver, etc, to M2 and see that they all run in fairly horizontal channels. You can even see nominal GDP normalized to M2 having been flat initially and then transitioning into a downward sloped c…

Reading this made me question my own mental stability.

He's basically saying the increase in prices has matched the increase in the money supply. Implying that we need to hold politicians accountable for the massive expansion in the money supply. Which is logic that's hard to fault.

Also implying that inflation is under-measured, perhaps deliberately. Which definitely seems true for anyone who's experienced inflation.

Re: Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

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Post by wronglebowski »

GiorgioG wrote: post #3

Xbox is in complete disarray and is imploding. I haven’t owned a PlayStation in decades. If my son’s Xbox Series X (the worst naming ever) suddenly dies, we’ll either switch to PlayStation or build a PC.

I think that’s the really important implied question right now. Mostly everyone already has some form of device to play games on. What happens when they start to die off?

Re: Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

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Post by sssilver »

speak_plainly wrote: post #20
baal80spam wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't get the impression OP focused on the gender. Is it forbidden to mention a gender if it's female? Seems to me the one focusing on the gender is you.

I think the point is that if it's irrelevant, why mention it?

Would you have responded similarly if the OP wrote:

> That’s why they gave it to a young man with no achievements whatsoever in gaming and no reputation to build off of

Re: Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

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Post by lotsofpulp »

darth_avocado wrote: post #26
thegrim33 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like an opportunity then for you to create a competing company that functions the way you feel it should function. If that's what people value, you'll take all the business since you're the only one offering it.

> Sounds like an opportunity then for you to create a competing company that functions the way you feel it should function Sure, if one has millions and millions in capital. Because why would an investor put a money in my company that works the way it “should” according to me if it produces lower profits as compared to my competitors?

Because buyers choose to spend less money, so if a business comes around that can offer the same product/service at a lower price, the investor will want to own a piece of that business rather than the one that is about to lose buyers.

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Post by deadbabe »

kderbyma wrote: post #7

The Era of the Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2 will forever be the best in terms of consumer value and choice and commitment to quality, followed by the Xbox360 Ps3 gen....Its been boiling the frog since end of PS4 and on, but I got out of the water by the PS5...xbox was boiled long ago and were the first to turn up the temp

Can we not forget Dreamcast was also part of that era?

Re: Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

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Post by rustcleaner »

inigyou wrote: post #25
codemog wrote: post #5

The deal was they took everything from you… but at least you could buy electronics for cheap! Now they don’t even let you have that.

Yeah, they've been explaining away inflation for decades by averaging housing with electronics. Yes your rent has tripled, but your TV is also 3 times as big and your gamebox has 1000 times the CPU so really, things have only gotten 2% more expensive, says the CPI calculation. Now the politicians don't even have that excuse. I suppose they'll have to add AI tokens to CPI. Used to cost $1000 each, now $0.000002 each,…

There is a limit on production efficiency, life is full of logistic curves which feel exponential at first until the inflection and leveling off phases.

It's going to hurt when agriculture does not see the efficiency gains it has been receiving for the last century or so. We might be at the inflection or leveling off now.

Re: Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

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Post by datakan »

mulderc wrote: post #13
datakan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing. That’s why they gave it to a young woman with no achievements whatsoever in gaming and no reputation to build off of. Her job is to kill it in a way Satya can save face on so they can finish their push to everything in the cloud.

Curious that you focus so much on her gender.

Hit a nerve eh?
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