If we got even 10% to stop buying we'd be in a good place. 20% would cause a panic. Nvidia may not focus on consumers right now, but it's still a huge chunk to have wither away.
If we all 100% could coordinate anything, we'd fix so many issues overnight. Meanwhile, societal change starts to happen when a mere 4% of a population start to be aware and protest.
They aren't really. IIRC the Switch 2 over holiday season didn't meet expectations (but I think it still hit their 2025 target). The supply shock must be really bad and these consoles are simply playing the best of a bad hand. I doubt any of this was profitable for games.
> I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again.
OOT is a 28 year old game whose last remake is 15 years old. Not everyone is going to play every remake, but everyone will have their favorites. That's why the remake market works.
>Compared to Xbox and PlayStation it’s vastly underpowered.
Sure, the same way an IPhone 17 is vastly underpowerred compared to a PS5. I'd hope we don't need to go into details on why that's not a very useful comparison.
>They’re not “shitty PC ports”,
Garbage in, garbage out. They are called "shitty PC ports" because the port to the PC from the PS5/XBX was bad, without the specs excuse.
The bigger issue is that they'd scoff at the price and get their kids to play Roblox or Fortnite on some tablet. The steam deck isn't what the console marker is really worried about these days.
As another fun fact: the most powerful system has never "won" the console generation. Nintendo only has to be strong enough to realize its and 3rd party's visions. And even then, it can get away with being a little weaker than that line.
I don't think most of the people they will inevitably layoff qualify for this package. age + num years work >= 70. They seem to be per-emptively shielding against age discrimination lawsuits.
And yes, but no. I think we all know what's happening. No one wants to say it out loud.
Yeah, agree. It's a clever way to cull the herd of the ones you would have difficulty laying off (due, as you say, to the appearance of age discrimination).
Next up, whole teams will be axed—not individuals.
They keep doing cuts but their employee count in 2025 is still higher than whenever we identify "overhiring" to have occured? Meanwhile, we know US hiring is on the downswing the past few years.
Doesn't sound like a company that actually cares about "overhiring". More that where they hire is shifting.
We're in a recession. We're not going to admit we're in a recession until it's over (or worse, until it goes on long enough to qualify as a depression), because that's how the powers that can call a recession work.
And no, we cannot handle it. Not without a major overhaul of policy, New Deal style. Will we get that? Who knows.
If we all 100% could coordinate anything, we'd fix so many issues overnight. Meanwhile, societal change starts to happen when a mere 4% of a population start to be aware and protest.
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