I agree in principle but "rent nothing" is an absolute that millions of people without the down payment for a house cannot get behind.

I mean I can see it now on the game cases, in fine print: "requires constant Internet access and a current PlayStation network subscription".

And then we'll all be saying we thought Nintendo's game-key cards were bad.

SteamOS on PS5 when?

You can already jailbreak PS5s on older firmwares.

Lots of people are suggesting that, and the shoe fits.

More like a plan B but it‘s an inevitable consequence from the AI bubble and the general tech boom. All the money is in companies and companies have all the money so they have to shuffle it around to increase profits. Even if it‘s just on paper.

We, the normal consumers aren‘t interesting to tech giants anymore because we‘ve been utterly wrung out already. The only thing we‘re good for at this point is hustling in a never ending subscription hell in total dependency.

I have a different conspiracy theory.

I think they're planning on the reduced human population that's already underway in America.

See, the boomer generation at it's peak was bigger than Gen-X, the millenials, and Gen-Z combined. But, people die. And the youngest boomers are 70 years old.

The next 30 years will see a massive population collapse, and we've already entered the collapse of the work force of that generation.

Which means for the next 30 years, everybody else is paying for the boomers social security. But when it comes time for our time on retirement, we're not going to have the same support they did. Boomers will be dead, Gen Z is statistically having less kids (and I get why, but it still means less social security income).

So their plan is to regulate all the work to AI, and take all the profits. The problem is, it's a really stupid plan. It doesn't matter how advanced AI is. It will never fully replace humans. Which means the concept of work will always need to exist. And the end result is, I think they're preparing to figure out how to get AI to do enough of the jobs, and then enslave the people to do the rest.

It’s absolutely both.

Fucking gaming, forget gaming for a second. That is small potatoes.

Imagine if you will, all businesses and citizens storing their documents, photos, schedules, calendars, emails, contacts, social graphs in the cloud. We’ve know how toxic monetization of social media profiling has been, but again forget that, small potatoes.

Business move their storage to the cloud. Hundreds of thousands of AI agents scour over and summarize all of that data - not the LLMs designed to dazzle the public but purpose-built ML models designed to analyze financial reports, engineering whitepapers, patent applications, mission statements, insider information. You can see markets move in real time. You can gauge who is going to beat you and who is going to crash and burn before they do. You can see where the dark money is coming from - whether it’s on your side or not. You can discern where opposing political messaging is reaching people, and dissect how they’re interacting with it. You can hold all of society hostage.

Cameras move their storage to the cloud. Hospital systems. Cars beam constant telemetry. There’s nowhere to hide, it’s a constant prison and if you even appear to be getting out of line, it’s over for you.

We’re not there yet but this is what they’re building. Trump is mad that America broke up his pedo ring and his revenge is putting us all in a demented techno prison.

PS+ is an expensive fucking joke compared to what you get on Gamepass, last I recall. They’re already overpriced.

Sounds like they are taking the loss. Subsidizing the increased cost of production with funds from online subscriptions...

Let's talking about how much of a joke it is that consoles need an additional subscription to go online.