• SparroHawc@piefed.world
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    1 day ago

    At this point, the hardware is almost certainly locked in. They were originally expecting to ship these things by now; supply issues are the primary reason they aren’t in gamers’ hot little hands already.

    The software, on the other hand, is probably getting some extra polish with this extra time.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      But also:

      The longer the Hormuz conflict goes on, the more oil and gas prices go up. The more shipping costs go up.

      The more everything costs go up, if ‘everything’ is classed as ‘basically anything you might regularly purchase’.

      So… they’re now in quite a bind, because their possible purchasers, their target demo, are actively and rapidly becoming poorer, as time goes on.