Highly unlikely, they're supply restrained anyway and the hype machine runs on its own so there'd be no point.

Liking and subscribing is how you get a better feed.

This is false, VR (unless your application does locomotion which is a well known no-no) causes less motion sickness than FPS games on flat screens do.

I was a big fan of VR when Valve Index came out, as far as I'm concerned it's the best home cardio machine ever invented. It's a good idea, but the initial (post-oculus) energy got sucked out of the market by facebook selling their hardware at a loss to win marketshare only to then spend all their resources on the abject failure of their metaverse and basically kill the entire field. Apple's vision (ha) for VR doesn't appeal to me as much.

Any class where the AIs can already do the work now is a wasteful class by the time the students graduate, nobody's going to pay a human to do it anymore.

If AI can do the homework wouldn't employers be better off getting one of those instead of an expensive sack of meat? Younger generations can smell it's all a bullshit waste of time since it's already automated and becoming even more so every passing week. The problem isn't that schools can't stomp out AI use in students, the problem is that schools can't pre-empt what skills would actually be worth having by the time the students graduate, and the students can tell. I would like to add that all the time you spend on school is time away from 3), self-directed interests and projects.

Of course gamers are entitled, they're the ones spending the money. You don't get to milk them without giving them a compelling product in return - and like you said, there's plenty to choose from so the bar is high.

Having cultural exchange at the university level is a long-standing and generally successful strategy to unify the world. I think people just didn't expect China to be quite so ungrateful about it. As for competition - I don't think the people running academia feel personally affected by it.

Plenty of good non-AAA games around though. All my favorite games cost under 25€.

Playstation games in the 80s? You have your timelines mixed up.

Try shopping on Steam, games are so cheap there I end up buying more than I can play.

Neither or both depending on your definition, they're just normal computers with steam installed. And by normal I mean thinkpad for laptops and custom built for desktops without any gaudy RGB gamer nonsense.

They failed? I didn't even notice since I've never had sound, ethernet, wifi, bluetooth or brightness and volume controls not work because of drivers on linux.

Ranked league, sponsored teams, contest with actual real world money to be made etc. are absolute cancer that ruin everything, including traditional sports and video games.

The LLMs are explicitly given the option and explained in a wink wink nudge nudge kind of way that they're free to hack the enemy AI and we're supposed to be shocked that they sometimes do it? What moral code is even being broken here, "thou shalt not modify a video game"? Excuse my lack of outrage...