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R&D is research and development, it's ongoing because they're always engineering and or planning the road map for future hardware. The years leading up to a new console, the costs ranges from several hundreds of millions of dollars to sometimes a few billion. "Nikkei is reporting Sony will spend 300 billion yen (about $2.17 billion) in R&D for its video game segment," There's a reason why they're only 3 companies worldwide making dedicated home console hardware. How retarded are you?

Or Vita, PSP, or PS3.

Uh yea they can because games get pulled from digital stores all the time, never to be seen again.

Lmfao.. Do you know how much R&D goes into making a console? Yearly consoles is not a viable option.

Information that you find? When have you actually properly researched ANYTHING? Ramza let's be real, you don't actually take the time to look into anything. Your source of information is random YouTube videos Difference is when I post stuff I have multiple tangible facts and links to back up what im saying and 7 times out of 10 it's directly from the source or a quote from the source. Just like in that book banning thread... Once I dropped all the facts and links to back it up... POOF you're gone never to be seen again.

Steam deck owners aka Beta testers have been owned

This exchange explains sooo much about Ramza.... "if I believe it, it's true... Damn factual tangible evidence"

Prime example: The mental Gymnastics

Is there ANY topic that Cooke takes a few minutes to look into before forming his baseless opinion?

I'm surprised you're not outraged that the conservatives in Canada are attempting to ban and censor books.. .. Strange..

Still dodging that previous post huh? Lol

And even more negative word of mouth from players.

Series S still accounts for more than half the total sales though

Old news and that 74.8% solely for April 2022.

Misleading chart. Xbox operating profits aren't higher than Playstation's.. As you stated Phil clarified that's it's actually in the single digits. Read the the chart carefully... It shows "accountability margins" for Xbox, while PS and Nin showed operating income and net income respectively.

Internet on your phone =/=broadband. The entire world does not have broadband.

That's counting slow ass speeds too as low as 25Mbs. In some areas in America the wired internet is so bad your phone has faster access so people don't even pay for both and just use their phone. "Even in areas where broadband is available, approximately 100 million Americans still do not subscribe." 100 million + 1/4 of Rural America + 1/3 of the Tribal territories = more than 1/3 of the entire US population Yes more than 1/3 of the country which is the biggest video game market in the world does not have broadband, access to broadband or access to dece

87% drop during launch month? Paging @Remij

Yup that's the best option. Whoever wants to go all digital, you can do that.. Nothing is stopping you. Consoles should continue to offer both physical and digital for the foreseeable future.

"In rural areas, nearly one-fourth of the population..... still lack access to fixed broadband service at threshold speeds." "In tribal areas, nearly one-third of the population lacks access. " The Report concludes broadband is not yet being deployed in a reasonable and timely fashion." And that just America... Now do the rest of the world. Sony and Nintendo sell boatloads of physical games worldwide.

Did you read my last post? The broadband infustructure isn't mature enough as yet for a 100% digital gaming. Sony and Nintendo who both perform well Globally aren't dropping physical anytime soon. Force a user to go digital? That user is going to run fiber lines for their entire region or something? Lmfao. MS who doesn't sell well Globally and only in certain western markets won't miss much by going all digital.

The medium can evolve when the infustructure is mature. Have you ever looked into what percentage of the country doesn't have access to reliable internet or broadband? Physical media isn't going anywhere until that changes.

Take the L. And move on.

It's the model too. We have never had a point in gaming where two console manufactures are selling 100 of millions of hardware + over a billion in software EACH.. Within the same gen. Both Switch and PS4 pulled that off while being on the market at the same time. Point im making is traditional game sales (including digital because it's an actual purchase) are bigger than they have ever been in the history of gaming. Gaming as a whole is no where close to be ready for a gamepass model. Look at the hundreds upon hundreds of millions MS is spending to b