Assuming the number is accurate, the fact that that’s with Xboxes pretty readily available and PS requiring jumping through hoops for a solid year+ after launch, and the series S being sub 300 is really rough for Microsoft.
Though their naming being so confusing I have to double check after looking at a listing that it’s actually “current gen” or not definitely doesn’t help.
I have no idea on the name thing. What Microsoft are doing? Every one of their products just has a truly awful name now all of them are confusing.
See Microsoft Studio Code (an expensive and entirely average but workable program that is rarely used) vs MS Code (a truly excellent free program that has become industry standard) - Oh and both programs icons look basically identical and are slightly different shades of blue but otherwise have the same image.
It’s mind boggling. I know a lot of other tech has awful naming. But they at least have the excuse that they have a lot of products to name. 360 was dumb, one was dumber. One S/X was just weird. But Series S/X after that? Giant mess. Two S/X would have still been dumb, but at least people would know it was actually better.
Are you talking about Visual Studio Community/Professional/Enterprise and Visual Studio Code? Because if so, I don’t really agree. Visual Studio is an IDE (VS Community is the free tier) whereas VS Code is a code editor (as the name implies).
Yes they’re different products yet they have very similar names.
Your comment says “Microsoft Studio Code” and “MS Code”, neither of which is a thing (as I tried to point out). The actual software you’re talking about is “(MS) Visual Studio” and “(MS) Visual Studio Code”, and that naming convention is pretty common for products (and other things) that are different but similar (think Photoshop and Photoshop Express, PSX and PS2, C and C++ etc.).
Been playing a lot of cloud gaming on my PC with a fiber connection. I’m just gonna build a new PC.
Not really surprising, Microsoft has been going a lot harder on the PC and cloud front, so it makes sense that their audience is split between those and Xbox, meanwhile Sony exclusives are only available on PS5.
Somehow, Xbox really won me over this generation. I own the XSX and the PS5 disk versions, and one is collecting dust. I think it’s the backwards compatibility for old disks that is just so alluring
Considering what a disaster Sony’s hardware has been, this honestly really sucks.
News to me, what’s up with the hardware?
Since PS2, they’ve always major deficiencies.
The PS3 was underpowered, which limited the scope of some multi-platform games, and the controllers had this ridiculous design where the battery was connected by a ribbon cord held in place by foam that degrades, the PS4 controllers have major problems with drifting, and the PS5 has been nearly unattainable because of hardware component shortages that were notably specific to them.
I’m hardly a Sony Stan, but you can call me one if it makes you feel better when I say… I have no idea what you’re talking about.
hardware component shortages that were notably specific
What was specific to the PS5 that wasn’t shared by the XSX? The specs of are almost identical. Same AMD processor, same generation and architecture, same amount and type of memory. Any supply chain woes that affected one almost certainly affected the other.
Except for that insane proprietary memory expansion card that Xbox uses that cost $200 per TB. It took them 3 years to come up with cheaper options. Meanwhile Sony just uses off the shelf NVME drives whose price has been slowly decreasing ever since the pandemic.
The PS3 was underpowered
It is well documented that the PS3’s weakness was the complexity of it’s design not necessarily how powerful it was.
the PS5 enabled and enriched scalpers
This is such a confusing statement, it’s Not Even Wrong. You make it sound like Sony built scalpability into the PS5. You’re angry at the inanimate object? Not what the awful people did with it? People scalped the PS5 because it was in higher demand, not because it was made of gold.
