Just so we’re clear, BG3 has only one language that is voiced: English. Every other language is in subtitles.

When was the last time you shopped for an SSD? Cheapest 1TB NVMe are around $35.

Starfield heavily leans on procedural generation. It would be many times bigger if it didn’t. BG3 has something like 170 hours of recorded dialogue. Cutting down means getting of features.

So no, there is no room for optimization here. These games are just going to be that big, period. People just need to accept that they will have to get giant SSDs in the future.

Game is apparently a flop. Only 750 peak concurrent players on steam.

Reddit is still a year behind Twitter/X on its path of enshittification. So just wait another year or so and you’ll probably stop going there.

They compromised their higher end system with their lower end system. It’s time to admit they made a mistake here, and they are only now starting to fix it.

We’ve already established that the $300 box is not viable for much longer. And since it sold around 1/3 the numbers of the PS5, it didn’t even work as advertised.

Then why even bother with a console? Just define the minimally specced PC box needed for Game Pass and call it a day.

Game Pass includes PC gamers. It’s probably not that profitable either.

Microsoft should really ask themselves why they couldn’t have procured more components, despite being one of the most profitable companies on Earth.

It has faster memory than the Series S. More importantly, it has more RAM. A few improvements here and there doesn’t make the Series S a real next-gen console.

PS5 outsold both versions combined by around 2x. I don’t think it was nearly that big of a deal.

It’s less powerful than an Xbox One X. I think the problem is that they didn’t really think through what a console generational leap would actually consist of.

The Series S will become an ever bigger anchor going forward. Eventually, there will be 3rd party games that just choose not to bother with the Xbox at all because of the Series S.

Except that they can’t. The only thing they can do is to give up on the Series S. Sure, that is a disaster as it means millions of Series S buyers are basically on a dead console. But they’re headed in that direction anyways.

If they’d taken the Series S as the base line during development, they would have made life a lot easier for themselves.

The problem is that the baseline is actually the PS5. It outsells both versions of the Xbox by a factor of 2. So the Xbox Series S is an afterthought, and always will be.

Please stop listening to corporate propaganda on this subject. You have absolutely no personal responsibility to solve this problem. The idea that you have to is an invention from business. A way to make it a personal responsibility and not something businesses have to solve.

The world is fighting fewer wars than ever in history. That doesn’t mean there are no wars, they’re just much fewer in number compared to the past.

I’m curious how far you can take this. Can you drink only espressos and still get hydrated?

The simple answer is to give it all away in some way. The notion that you can personally do good with that money is the delusion of every billionaire.