Back in my day console prices went down with time...
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Same with RAM, HDD space, GPUs, Phones... Shit the whole tech industry really sucks today.
Its because they've already burned through all the good ideas and iterative designs have reached the point of diminishing returns. What's something 2026 tech can do that six-year-old 2020 tech couldn't? With the introduction of AI, a lot of tech has become objectively worse with no replacements in sight.
Back then we didn't have another bubble inflating prices every other year. :/
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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.
This is also from a period of time where manufacturing genuinely got cheaper over time. Die sizes shrunk for the CPUs, so you could make the system smaller with less waste heat. There pretty much haven't been those kinds of revisions for modern consoles
these are atypical times.
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!
So that's $899.99. How is console gaming cheaper then PC again?
Well for a start that's the PS5 Pro and absolutely nobody is buying that.
That would be like me saying you can't make a gaming PC without a 5090.
Uhhh, have you looked at pc prices recently?
Because the equivalent graphics card is about $450, and you still need to buy a CPU, storage, RAM, PSU, and case. And it's only the up-front cost that's cheaper.
Premade desktops with a good enough you can still be found for shit 1200$ / 1000€.
And the savings from buying on Steam/GoG instead will probably make up the difference.
And you get a full PC as well
That's why I said it was the up-front cost that's cheaper. This is how it's been for a long, long time now.
buying
The, what now?
Great news for the steam machine. The price difference gets smaller as they raise closing the gap.
Thanks xbox for leaving the market to allow this.
Xbox hasn’t quite left the market, they’re just slowly sleepwalking down a pier. We’ll see if they wake up before they walk off the end and end up drowning. I’m certainly not holding my breath.
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God, these companies are all so evil and shitty in their own special way.
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.
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 was already not going to buy a Ps5, but now I'm $100 more not buying one instead!
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.
I guess I'll just have to buy even fewer consoles than I already am.
Makes it even worse that Sony keeps exclusives to their console. And reportedly reduced or stopped single player first party games on PC.
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