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.
Remember when consoles would get cheaper not more expensive over time!? This thing is five years old at this point.
these are atypical times.
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
So that's $899.99. How is console gaming cheaper then PC again?
Uhhh, have you looked at pc prices recently?
I'm struggling to even find a PC that expensive.
What the hell, Boots used to sell PCs? Or is that a fricky coincidence that there's a PC store somewhere with the same name and logo as a popular pharmacy?
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.
I know everyone expected prices to go up but $650 for a regular PS5? OOOFFFFF.
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.
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.
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.
Gaming kids have it rough. 😞
Gamers, the most oppressed race...
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.
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.
They made a fifth one?
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