I'll start by saying I've never owned a console from Microsoft or Sony. I've seen them, I've seen game demos in stores, etc, but I've never owned one.

To me as one random consumer I fail to see the drive to upgrade from PS4 to PS5, or from the previous XBox to the newest. The games don't look that different. For that matter, it doesn't seem that the two consoles are really offering much difference from each other either. Both consoles are primarily hawking the newest Quake look-alike, or the latest professional (or college) sports titles. I see very few games for either that don't fit into one of those categories.

In other words my argument here is that they have sold to their core market already, and the demand has dissolved for the rest of the public. Even if we ignore the cost, the benefit is no longer clear to many people. Why upgrade to the newest console, other than to say you have it?

This is nonsense. If you have a decent GPU and just a whatever CPU then you can expect to be CPU limited. Just having current PCIE is not enough.

The mission is to get everyone on SSL, that's going to include people without a clue

If it is for local use only you can just make your own certificates, and set yourself up as the authority if needed. If these devices allow you to upload a certificate then they really should support that, because otherwise their list of certificate authorities will go stale quickly and they will stop working.

All fossil cars emit it, it's unavoidable unless you live where there aren't any roads.

Fingers crossed, touch wood, that their IPO fails and it all comes crashing down soon. I need some more storage.

EV tech should help drive costs down. Combustion engines have already been heavily cost optimized and also have to deal with emissions limits. Meanwhile EV tech is still evolving and battery costs are falling fast. The drivetrain is overall much simpler anyway.

Used EVs are currently appreciating assets thanks to the actions of the Orange Man.

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Demand is outstripping supply.

It's a shame your government banned all the much better EV models in the crossover segment. You are going to have to maintain that ICE for years.

Also because the Japanese invested heavily in hybrid technology and do not want to abandon it.

There was a news report about it years ago on NHK. It's not just Toyota that wants to get every bit of value out of its hybrid R&D, it's that all their suppliers for the drivetrain want to as well. If they switched completely to EV then many of those suppliers would have little to offer. The complex gearbox, the fuel management, the engine block, the alternator, the exhaust system, it all goes away.

Even their dealers need to retrain and lose all the revenue from maintaining the fossil part, because EVs typically only need a few regular checks, and an oil change every ~5 years or so. Even the brake pads last forever due to regen.

They are trying to preserve their business model for as long as possible, instead of adapting. Much like fossil fuel companies and many others.

It's the same story everywhere.

EVs arrive. Media scaremongers and prints lots of articles about how the range is inadequate, the chargers are all broken, the slightest scratch results in them being written off, can't get spare parts...

Then enough people get them that everyone else starts to realize the truth and become interested, because the advantages and convenience are huge.

EV also decouple them from oil prices and they can make electricity themselves with cheap solar panels.

For China it's also about buying domestic goods and supporting Chinese businesses. Many people are already familiar with batteries due to mopeds too, which doubtless reduces the range anxiety a lot. It seems to take people who are used to fossil fuel vehicles longer to get over it.

The incentives are worth it even if you don't believe in climate change, because they reduce the amount of soot you are breathing in.

Does it mention Brexit? We finally had confirmation from the British government over the weekend that Russia heavily interfered with the Brexit vote, much of it via Facebook. Then there was Cambridge Analytica...

Pump and dump. And with the LLMs hooked into HFT trading systems, my guess is that the the dump will occur across the board and in milliseconds.