Did they still find a way to blame their Western developers since they shed them all?

Wait until they make all the money that was to be made on their game.

Then yoink all of that money.

I'm legitimately worried about next gen, since Sony is doing the same thing with their pricing as GPU manufacturers.

That thing being, the increase in price is >/= the actual increase in performance. The PS5 Pro is a 75% price increase over the similarly disc-driveless $399 PS5 (hardware which is almost a half-decade old now).

For me, entirely the opposite.

I just bought the Lossless Scaling app on Steam for my RTX 3070. That shit is magic on the 144Hz 4K TV that my gaming PC is connected to. I play games exclusively with a gamepad, so I notice absolutely zero input latency.

I have fully drunk the frame gen Kool-Aid.

That optimization part is what worries me. I still remember games like Control & Cyberpunk being basically unplayable unless you had a PS4 Pro.

Someone buys fake on eBay. Plays it. Sells it to Gamestop. Minimum wage employee does not spot that it's fake and it ends up on the used game shelf.

None of this is new.

The Holy Trinity: VIM, Arch, and Rust

Unfortunately, on every launch, AMD looks at Nvidia's price gouging and says, "Yeah that pricing looks good for us, too."

Congratulations. Your new position is.....

Boardroom Table.

In a sense. They're also fancy-pants enterprise drives rated to be able to last over a million hours.

Drive failures follow the old "bathtub curve". You get the lemons that fail when they're brand new -- that's one side of the curve. Then for several years, they fail at a consistently low rate. Then once they start getting really old, the failure rate goes up -- giving you the other side of the curve.

True, these are probably closer to the "old age" side of the bathtub curve. But GHD is pretty good about honoring their warranty. Back stuff up and you should be fine.

Anyone can shit their pants. Is that "infrastructure"?

Just bought a bunch of $75 12TB disks from GoHardDrive's eBay storefront.

Still running through the diagnostics, but nothing has jumped out yet, 48hrs in. Sure, they're 4 years old and have over a petabyte of lifetime writes. They also have 5 year warranties.