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So parents think it's a big taking advantage of you conspiracy to get you to spend $200 every 5 years but I don't remember seeing these news stories about cars lasting 5-7 years and needing to be replaced
Remember, news has always manufactured outrage for its customers (advertisers). Guess Nintendo didn't spend enough on the network
Well, VCRs or TVs then. Microwaves. Vacuum cleaners. Lawn mowers. Plenty of expensive shit that broke every 5 years
Sounds more like someone bought cheap shit
The microwave we had as a kid, my brother still uses. It's gotta be 40 years old or more.
We had tvs growing up that were 10-20 years old and I'm sure some of the newer 80s/90s tvs are still working, just aren't used.
My brother still uses the electric lawn mower my parents bought in the 90s.
VCRs, well, I haven't used one in years, so I couldn't tell you the shape those are in.
My vacuum is over ten years old.
I've got the lawn mower of Theseus, almost every part has been replaced at least once.
I want to buy a new one so bad, but every time mine stops working I manage to fix it.
Funny enough now I think this conspiracy is truer than ever, because only a handful of new releases actually require the full capabilities of a PS5 or an XSX, and most of them are being made by first-party studios to sell those consoles.
If we think of phones, that is definitely true. To the point some brands like Apple have been found actively undermining older devices to sell new ones.
Sony made it even more deliberate. They blocked sales on PS3 for the same games that were on PS4. So a game may be $40 and on sale for $12 on PS4 but it would stay $40 on ps3. Developers complained about it and it was out of their hands
Didn't happen on Xbox. And of course on steam it was the same game all along
Why are these Japanese companies Sony / Nintendo so scummy when it comes to this shit?
Because they hate their customers for some reason.
I get companies exist to make money, but look at the Xbox unit. They understand having your customers like you increases profits. Sony seems to want to piss them off. Which is funny because the situation was flipped a couple times over the years
True, but the biggest reason customer were pissed at Microsoft with the Xbox was the whole ordeal with the Kinect and required online 100% of the time at launch of the One. MS actually listened to customers and walked those choices back. You don't see that walk back to these anti-consumer choices that companies make often enough anymore.
Well, they ditched the idiot running Xbox and brought in someone who actually understands what gamers want. That was a huge move
Shame it already had the damage though. Stupid $100 Kinect tax was just brutal
Yeah yeah, news bad, ban them all. /s
It's fine, just have to understand why they're saying what they're saying and what their motivation is
First and foremost they're an ad company. They sell ad space. They just need to scare people into watching, outrage them enough, get them habitually hooked