Title fixed, no idea how could I slip that. 🫥

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Just to be clear, I didn't mean that 20€ is the right price... honestly I think that if they put the 20$ price tag, it would be still too expensive. If you take a look here you can see the industry standard for online-only games free and paid (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo don't share this data; but I think Valve is the overall winner/standard for the last generations of the gaming industry)

I don’t even understand what they mean…

Something on the line "We wish we could charge you the 80$, AAA, price; hoverer, we didn't implemented decent AI bot for you to play with/against... so we need players themselves to do the job"

TL;DR: 20€/$

It's worth notice few things; the GPU isn't "a part", GPU is "THE" part. You can't find a viable second hand market for ps5 hardware, but you can find second hand market for 3generations of nvidia RTX (20x0, 30x0, 40x0), a AMD, to get all around the ps5 potential.

You can buy an inexpensive PC with integrated GPU and play indie and AAA titles in very low specs.

Ps5 doesn't come with AAA graphics until... well, you don't spent AAA prices for each game. How much for 10 AAA games? 70€x10= 700€

On PC isn't just cheaper: all your games in your library gets the push up to the additional TFLOPS (PS5 require you to buy PS5 games in order to be tailored around the PS5, not ps4). With emulation ROMS (legal if you have the original copy), you get the push up in graphics for all the games you already bought: running that old ps1 game at 8k 60fps? Can't see why not.

It's not a game, but a very laggy fps camera ornated with Quake II textures. That's actually what's in it. There are far greater example if someone wants to make good example with AI; but I think Carmack found himself trapped to speak about this because it relate his job on different angles.

Looks like they saw what Intel presented one year before ChatGPT popularized AI and they said "Woah, that stuff from Intel it's cool... let's also us make a pointless version!"

"I won't kidnap kids, if that's what you're asking"

Whale economy as seen in f2p games.

Starve the community around you with higher prices, make all your money with the few who buy bottled mineral water for car wash.

You tell people to not use AI, and some may agree with you.

You tell companies to not use AI, they laugh at you and they keep make even big money thank to the added margin made by those poor fellow that aren't using AI... because they did listen to you.

AI is not something is gonna vanish, it's a tool... a whole new category of tools and instruments. Like the first electric musical instruments in times when the only way to have a sustained job in the music industry was to work in a orchestral band kept up by bigger institutions.

How many unplugged classical indie music artists do you know? Compare to the number of indie music artist that rely on electric musical instrument and beyond.

...it their money aren't already gone for a 999$ monitor stand.

SteamDeck buyers on the other side...

Deliver fake data would be an insanely dangerous game from Valve: that data is what all their partner to make strategic choices... if there's any proof of that, all their partner would drop the ball and Valve would lose it's multi billion business in just few weeks.

2. fake that data is plain stupid too: Valve has all the interest to know and share where is the bigger pie piece... so Capcom, Sega, Blizzard etc. can tune their product. For example, let's say Valve goes crazy and say that the GPU Nvidia RTX 5090Ti got 50% of market share... and all their partner follow this fake data and deliver all their products with no optimizations: results for their customers? (and, before any one mention it: yes, this apply the opposite: if Valve say 50% of GPU market share are shitty old Intel iGPU... all future games on PC will overly tuned towards the lowest end and big publisher won't even bother trying with next gen videogames).