opinion urgently required

[mmaverick]

Up here, Wal Mart isn’t even doing in store sales of the new consoles, specifically to avoid massive lines and covid spread. We took a call list for around two weeks, which means we won’t have any in store for sale until likely February. The worst part is having that conversation at least 10 times an hour

Could you check in the back?

[TOS]

so weird to see so much demand for these consoles when they hardly even have a library yet

but i guess this happens with every new release, eh?

[ukimalefu]

so weird to see so much demand for these consoles when they hardly even have a library yet

but i guess this happens with every new release, eh?

but... R A Y T R A C I N G ! ! ! ! 4 K ! ! ! 1 2 0 F P S ! ! !

[dv]

so weird to see so much demand for these consoles when they hardly even have a library yet

but i guess this happens with every new release, eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zcVnNwAHys

[Warin]

Up here, Wal Mart isn’t even doing in store sales of the new consoles, specifically to avoid massive lines and covid spread. We took a call list for around two weeks, which means we won’t have any in store for sale until likely February. The worst part is having that conversation at least 10 times an hour

Could you check in the back?

Lol! I wish. Though, I do have a series x, and I don’t need a PS 5 until Horizon Forbidden West comes out.

[TOS]

silly me, i thought consoles would be available once the holidays were over

apparently not

[Warin]

We have received very few consoles since launch. A lot less than the number of new consoles in 2013/early 2014. At this rate we won’t be through our lists until sometime in the early summer.

And it is Apple’s fault.

Apple takes up about 80% of the fab resources at TSMC. The other 20% is split among everyone else, including AMD, who makes the SoCs for Microsoft and Sony, in addition to their own processors and graphics cards. That has to have an effect on availability.

[macaddict4life]

We have received very few consoles since launch. A lot less than the number of new consoles in 2013/early 2014. At this rate we won’t be through our lists until sometime in the early summer.

And it is Apple’s fault.

Apple takes up about 80% of the fab resources at TSMC. The other 20% is split among everyone else, including AMD, who makes the SoCs for Microsoft and Sony, in addition to their own processors and graphics cards. That has to have an effect on availability.

That must be of fabs that are capable of a specific process. There are too many TSMC fabs for it to be 80% of total capacity, and I've mets lots of TSMC employees here, most of whom worked on things other than chips for Apple. There's a TSMC facility in every decent sized city, and in a lot of smaller cities as well.

[TOS]

We have received very few consoles since launch. A lot less than the number of new consoles in 2013/early 2014. At this rate we won’t be through our lists until sometime in the early summer.

And it is Apple’s fault.

Apple takes up about 80% of the fab resources at TSMC. The other 20% is split among everyone else, including AMD, who makes the SoCs for Microsoft and Sony, in addition to their own processors and graphics cards. That has to have an effect on availability.

aren't hoarders playing a role too, as with video cards?

[Warin]

To some extent, yes. Scalpers are scum.

[TOS]

well, fix it!