PlayStation 5 Price Increases Start Tomorrow (8/21) (UPDATE: Xbox Now Too)

You want us to pay more for what's soon to be an outdated console? Yeah that's going to go well

It’s mind blowing to me consoles now go up in price as the generation gets older. It’s absolutely fricking retarded and makes no sense. There is no possible financial reason for this other than greed.

Muh inflation; stop making games with 500 million dollar budgets and 20,000 people companies

Muh tariffs; bitch no one buys Xbox’s they’re full to the brims with stock already in US and for Sony the depreciation in cost of making hardware over time certainly offsets whatever minor inconvenience they have here.

I fricking hate what gaming is becoming. At least they didn’t include accessories or making games 80$ yet. But just wait until their highly awaited with bated breath marathon and fair games are financial disasters.

All this is, any of it from any one under any circumstance, is passing the cost for their horrendous decisions onto us, the consumer

In a world where steam exists, there is no reason to own a PlayStation or an Xbox.

Nintendo does just enough to justify their existence, but they’re on thin ice.

Modern gaming overall is in a pretty horrid state. They are rapidly pricing themselves out of business.

I have a gaming pc, but I mostly play on console, because as you said the entire appeal of a gaming console is its convenience

Wtf do these companies think is going to happen when they begin to price themselves alongside moderately good gaming pcs? Which also operates in a way less walled off garden than consoles. People are going to make a rational decision to just get a gaming pc or laptop since it is essentially a one time purchase with you choosing when or if to buy upgrades, and you can essentially turn it into a console by plugging it into your tv and using your controller if you want.

These people are dumb as frick

Yeah ive read somewhere like 40% of ps players still havent upgraded from ps4 to ps5. I imagine sony is assuming GTA6 will make that number drop considerably

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I imagine sony is assuming GTA6 will make that number drop considerably

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GTA6 will move the console needle by making PC owners purchase a console. There is a decent chance the PC version would not drop until 2027/2028.

Not only that but if there's an exclusive game I'll just watch "theradbrad" and call it a day. I have a PC and I'm not gonna wait for a game to be 1-2 yrs old to play it.

A modern graphics card by itself is still more than a PS5 or Xbox.

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GTA6 will move the console needle by making PC owners purchase a console. There is a decent chance the PC version would not drop until 2027/2028.

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if i was one of these people i'd get a series s on the cheap on ebay before a new ps5