Its because they’ve already burned through all the good ideas and iterative designs have reached the point of diminishing returns. What’s something 2026 tech can do that six-year-old 2020 tech couldn’t? With the introduction of AI, a lot of tech has become objectively worse with no replacements in sight.
Back in my day console prices went down with time…
Back then we didn’t have another bubble inflating prices every other year. :/
Same with RAM, HDD space, GPUs, Phones… Shit the whole tech industry really sucks today.
Its because they’ve already burned through all the good ideas and iterative designs have reached the point of diminishing returns. What’s something 2026 tech can do that six-year-old 2020 tech couldn’t? With the introduction of AI, a lot of tech has become objectively worse with no replacements in sight.
Consoles were also a lot simpler then. And we were finding lots of ways to reduce cost ( chip count reduction, etc) as technology evolved rapidly
Were consoles really simpler then? Seems like consoles today are just like PCs whereas decades ago they all had custom shit.
Yes
Hey! My ColecoVision kicks your Atari ass. Don’t you be mouthing off about ‘simple!’