"These price increases have multiple intertwining causes, some direct and some less so: inflation, pandemic-era supply crunches, the unpredictable trade policies of the Trump administration, and a gradual shift among console makers away from selling hardware at a loss or breaking even in the hopes that game sales will subsidize the hardware. And you never want to rule out good old shareholder-prioritizing corporate greed.
But one major factor, both in the price increases and in the reduction in drastic “slim”-style redesigns, is technical: the death of Moore’s Law and a noticeable slowdown in the rate at which processors and graphics chips can improve."
So now we can finally go back to good old code optimization, right? Right? (Padme.jpg)
We’ll ask AI to make it performant, and when it breaks, we’ll just go back to the old version. No way in hell we are paying someone
Damn. I hate how it hurts to know that’s what will happen