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It’s 2026, I own a PC using parts up to a decade old. Its worth less than 2 weeks of minimum wage. All the games are digital, I just got 15 of them for under £80 and can backup the installer to an external drive.
I can even get a refund a few weeks later if I don’t like one of the games.
It’s 2017, I’m using a state-of-the-art PC with a Ryzen 1700X and DDR4 RAM.
It’s 2025, I’m upgrading my obsolete PC to a Ryzen 5700X3D to get a little more life out of it on the cheap, sticking with DDR4 RAM instead of upgrading to DDR5.
It’s 2033, I’m using my PC with a Ryzen 5700X3D and DRR4 RAM that is now much faster than anything that can be bought in the current market at anything approaching a reasonable price. I am desperately hoping the capacitors on my 16-year-old motherboard continue to hold out.
I am desperately hoping the capacitors on my 16-year-old motherboard continue to hold out.
please don’t give me new financial nightmares. I’m already poor.
(In reality, I have another AM4 motherboard I could use in a pinch. It would just be inconvenient because it’s micro-ATX instead of mini-ITX and I’d have to shift my home server to something even older.)
(Also, motherboards are the one component that isn’t really going up in price.)
ok. but my financial nightmares. I have this laptop and can’t afford something new. I wanted to pay for a deposit for a house before the tech industry collapsed.
You can get laptops for under £200 at CEX here. Sometimes under £100. They will still run UT1999 at 60FPS. Probably 144FPS if it supports outputting that high over what ever port it has for an external display.
We are going retro!
Aren’t motherboards fairly cheap in comparison? If it gets bad enough they may still be making DDR4 motherboards in 2033…
im not 100% caught up with the nintendo situation, but this sounds very similar to:
- have a switch 2
- games cost 80 dollars
- you had 4 games yesterday and bought another one used
- nintendo accuses you of piracy and bricks your device
- you have 0 games and no console today
All your games are played by AI, you just get to watch.
I mean, Twitch seems to do well…
Controllers are digital now too, you have you log in with your phone or something.
It’s like Jackbox but bad.
Something like: Give Playstation Controller app access to the camera? Some features of the app may not work as intended if permission declined.
App doesn’t work at all without all permissions. Just a big friendly warning saying to enable all permissions.
Stop, you’re giving them more ideas.
Razer did this. They had an update that required a login to use the extra features of your mouse. They had to walk it back.
If it’s any consolation, there will always be people like me making open source games, free for the public. Though I’m only focused on PC games.
Don’t forget the:
“Battle Pass”
The cosmetic micro transactions
the online play subscription
The in-game store that opens before the main menu
The in-game adverts
The day 1 dlc
The companion app on your phone
The invitation to join them on social media
The discord server you need to join to find out of the servers are down
It’s 2029 and nobody buys a PS6 because it sucks.
A power vacuum creates a new market.
All is well.
The new competitors are promptly acquired by Microsoft, and for some reason, Oracle.
They get folded into Xbox and bankrupted respectively.
Yeah let’s all sulk and be angry
I’m not sulking, and I’m not even angry at this stage.
I’m just saying that capitalism killed the free market like 70 years ago, and it has been doing a swan song at best ever since.
It will not save you without you doing something. Ditch consoles, go PC.
This is the bright future that we all always waited for. Now that it’s here, let us commemorate our meagre contributions towards appeasing shareholder value, that which cannot be appeased.
If there’s one industry that I dont think will get bailed out its the video game industry. We just have to make sure there’s still space for indie developers and there will be a Renaissance.
It’s 2029. You’re still an idiot…
Look at this optimist who thinks any of us will make it to 2029.
How do you think you’ll go out, shot dead by the Google Facebook Compliance Assistance Team for using an adblocker or dying in the water wars?
Sent to the water wars for using an ad blocker. They’ll give me a chance to atone by fighting for that data center cooling juice.
Don’t worry. Not much later and you won’t be able to buy any kind of console or even a PC at all. You will only get “terminals” that are basically paper weights without the necessary subscriptions.
“You will own nothing and be happy” won’t stop at games, movies and music. Better hope your 20€ basic office PC subscription won’t become 50. Oh, and surly you’d love it if we baked some ads into “your computer”. What? You want to play games? Better pay even more to rent 1/100 of some graphics card in some server room. Aren’t we nice? That card costs like 10,000 bucks, surly paying 50 a month is a steal, no?
Just think about all the fucked up shit you could do to screw people over like this. How much money you could squeeze out of them…
Thinclients. time is a circle
The GameBoy Color I got in 1998 still works just fine (okay the speaker has been blown out since the Bush administration but…)
Console G*mers getting that PC experience whether they want to or not.
Did u play GTA VI?
