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That's not what happened, Sony's decision is more about the poor saels of its single player titles on Steam, they are now focusing their PC releases for online multiplayer games instead

Microsoft sells less consoles each month than the previous gen Nintendo Switch sells today

A lot of publishers are skipping Xbox, citing not enough players/sales

They have nothing to worry about Xbox

https://i.imgur.com/TrI3q6e.png

That's something most game frameworks don't provide as a first class, gameplay oriented systems

-2013 DRM/always online drama (reversed pre launch)

-2023 shutdown of its physical release division, which is what triggered shift to digital only titles we are seeing now

Different year, different mechanism, different reception and different press coverage

It's the same with gaming

When Microsoft is killing physical in 2023 to push for Gamepass and digital only, it's labeled as "progress and infrastructure planning", when it's Sony that does it, it's labeled as "greed and anti consumerism"

Hopefully more people get attentive to how the industry & the media works, and how US Big Tech manages to kill any form of alternative

"has arrived"

Did working condition worsen over time? if yes, then maybe

If not, then COVID proved that we are past the idea of a theoretical biowar, it is already happening

This acquisition should be blocked (and never will sadly), they now have both the incentive and the ability to influence a platform that's supposed to be hardware agnostic (and built trust over that) toward CUDA stack

Microsoft did the exact same with github, acquired stack agnostic platform, and turned it into a copilot/azure one

Always like that with Microsoft apologists

What could go wrong

This is what i hate about modern entrepreneurship, everything is always built for a short term plan

Family businesses where tradition, trust, values and reputation are kept and transmitted across generations don't exist in tech and it's just sad

It's just build fast, milk users, cash out, and move on

No loyalty, no pride in the work, and zero respect for the people who actually supported you

And actually, it's a defensive move from Stripe, because OpenRouter was quietly becoming the way AI agents pay each other in USDC via x402, and Stripe probably saw this as a threat, specially with OpenAI already moving away from Stripe

They'll nerf you, to protect themselves, they'll make you dependent on their merchant system for the juicy fees

TaxJar, acquired by Stripe, they ended up doubling the price

Rebilly, same story

Lemon Squeezy, same story

Bridge, same story

They are hoarding HW at massive scale, they make it harder and more expensive to own

Just because you are fine with the new price doesn't mean it's not a problem

Perhaps it's time to pop this bubble

https://x.com/victor207755822/status/2057064415300841626

oof

They became the very thing they called the enemy of their own citizens

The irony..

Begs the question: what's next?

- The Big Promise: Announces a major price cut for Summer 2026, powered by cost savings from a shift to Huawei chips

- The Hype Train: Launches a flash promotion cutting prices in half, follows up by announcing the 50% discount is now permanent

- The Reality Check: Summer arrives, and Huawei's chips flops

- The Retreat: Forced to quietly reorder Nvidia chips

- The Damage Control: Introduces "off peak hours" pricing to shift demand

- The Aftermath: Announces a significant price hike

Ready to IPO :^)

One vCPU means nothing, which chip? which SIMD? what RAM speed? what storage? what latency?

Quantization is the next layer of lies

Society is moving towards offloading intelligence to clouid overlords, since nothing runs on your computer anymore, you can't trust anything

And since datacenters occupy a physical space, they are building a monopoly defacto

Unless transparency becomes mandatory, we are headed towards the biggest self sabotage mankind has ever witnessed

What a time to be alive, the fall of the Chinese edge

0 vision for the future

I could use much stronger words, but it's not worth it

How can you rally talents and visionaries when rulers are acting like that

Such a waste

Besides, in a few days, they'll change their pricing, doubling it during their peak hours, so, realistically:

- It will be 2x more expensive if you live in their time zone

- It will be 1.5x more expensive if you live in a time zone that is adjacent to theirs

- It will be the same price IF you use it while they sleep (during offpeak hours)

It's still cheap, but the price/performance ratio is not that good

DeepSeek V4 didn't produce the same impact as V3, and Huawei dropping the ball is making it worse

They had promised massive price cuts for July, so now (Huawei chips), but they had to rush the cuts because lack of momumtum (they advertised them as promotion), and are now backtracking by introducing this peak hours pricing

Trump decided to help them a little by allowing them to buy more NVIDIA chips, so what exactly is China's role in all of this?

We are supposed to blindly pat them in the back while praising them, all while handing them over our data? I thought they were dangerous competition threatening our model of society

D will get caught into that edition trap too

All it does is fragment a ecosystem, bloat a source tree and makes maintenance a painful task only to please people who think maintainers should cater to their poor tech hygiene

This should be blocked, and Stripe should be investigated for trying to build a monopoly

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