Back in my day console prices went down with time...
Back then we didn't have another bubble inflating prices every other year. :/
Same with RAM, HDD space, GPUs, Phones... Shit the whole tech industry really sucks today.
I know everyone expected prices to go up but $650 for a regular PS5? OOOFFFFF.
But it's a whole console for the same price as 64GB memory, what a deal!
Remember when consoles would get cheaper not more expensive over time!? This thing is five years old at this point.
The PS2 launched at £299. Got reduced to £199 the week the Xbox came out (and stuck the nails in the coffin just as it was being born) and finished somewhere around £79.
If only there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you left them.
these are atypical times.
God, these companies are all so evil and shitty in their own special way.
PS5 has 16 gigs of GDDR6. I have no idea how it compares to DDR5 price-wise when bought in bulk, but 16 gigs of DDR5 has gone up by like 150 dollars over the last 9 months or so.
I mean honestly I don't think it's the companies choice to raise the prices on this. When you look at the cost of the materials to make it and the fact that all the other companies have raised their costs unfortunately I think this is a massive side effect to that. I mean I'm still not going to buy it I didn't want to buy it in the first place because it was already incredibly expensive and I'm definitely not buying it. I've been waiting for the price to drop on it and I've been seeing them sitting in Walmart unsold as they are with the current prices.
I guess I'll just have to buy even fewer consoles than I already am.
It is memory prices? Or is it just the “we don’t have any real competition” increase?
Memory. Xbox raised their prices already.
That could indicate a duopoly if the Xbox brand wasn't struggling so hard.
Th prices of every component involved in making a PS5 have exploded.
Makes it even worse that Sony keeps exclusives to their console. And reportedly reduced or stopped single player first party games on PC.
That’s some big bullshit there. The parts needed for the PS5 are already produced or planned/bought to fixed prices. So Sony just found an excuse to earn more money and hoping for customers to not realize it.
I doubt they have a contract for endless memory at X price forever. Memory and storage prices have gone up so much that the memory and storage of a PS5 has for sure risen 200+ dollars in price over the last 9 or 10 months if you buy them as separate modules as a consumer.
Cost of 2 TB SSD and 16 gigs of RAM (what you get in a PS5 Pro at 900 EUR once the price hike kicks in) if bought as a consumer, is about 450 EUR in my country. That's without anything else (motherboard, CPU, GPU, power supply) that the device contains. Of course it has shared memory so perhaps you should be looking at 8 gigs of memory (still 100+ EUR) and an 8 gig graphics card of roughly equivalent TFLOPS since it's kinda hard to put a value tag on the other features its' GPU has - The RX 7600 starts at 300 EUR. So that'd be like 250+100+300 for storage + RAM + GPU. Still without a CPU, power supply, or any other electronics. Shit, the cheapest wi-fi 7 module I can find on sale in my country alone is 80 euros.
Worst part is, RAM and storage prices aren't really even showing any signs of slowing down.
All things considered, I reckon they still have pretty low margins for their hardware compared to PC parts manufacturers. Which they can afford because they make it back on the game store margins.
RAM, HDDs, etc are magically not going up in price for them? You think they got some sort of deal that the much bigger manufacturers couldn't negotiate somehow?
PS6 is going to be so boutique when that comes out. PS5's cross gen period with the PS6 is going to be even longer than the PS4s with the PS5
It's still ongoing. Might as well ask how long the cross gen period between PS4 and PS6 will last at this point.
Whats that little kickstand thing in the thumbnail?
It's the stand that comes with the console. I didn't notice them at first and was wondering why my ps5 was a bit unstable. Just a clear little clip thing that hides underneath.
if y'all are still buying consoles, you're a big chud. stop giving billion dollar companies your pennies. emulators are free and everywhere! fuck off nintendo too!!
Gaming kids have it rough. 😞
My son is pretty lucky as I’m the only dad around with a Steam Deck and a Playstation 5.
He didn’t even have to ask for these as I’m the one gaming the most.
I guess none of his friends is gonna get a Steam Deck or a Playstation 5 soon with the prices or the availability of these things..
The only good part is that maybe people are gonna learn to enjoy what they already have and devs could learn to keep developing games for old hardware.
lol no thanks, next
I was already not going to buy a Ps5, but now I'm $100 more not buying one instead!
They made a fifth one?
Again?
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