Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC

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• SammyJK@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Back in my day console prices went down with time…

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  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Back then we didn’t have another bubble inflating prices every other year. :/

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• popcar2@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I know everyone expected prices to go up but $650 for a regular PS5? OOOFFFFF.

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Xbox had already begun raising prices for the same reason Sony’s doing so now.

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• CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why do people buy a console instead of a PC? I just can’t understand, seriously.

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  • lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean, when it comes to console exclusives, some can’t be beat. Nintendo and Sony have proven that console exclusives still drive sales.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Mat Piscatella makes a good argument that they haven’t proven that. A lot of Xbox titles became all-time PS5 best-sellers immediately after getting ported. People who wanted to play those games could have bought an Xbox at any point to play them before the multiplatform strategy was announced, but they didn’t. He would argue that people have already settled into their platform of choice and just wait for the games they want to come there. Something like a third of all console players (at least Xbox/PS) are only playing multiplatform live service games on those consoles, not any of the marquis exclusives.

      And to be honest, that makes sense. In the grand scheme of things, there aren’t even that many exclusives anymore, compared to the deluge that there might have been in the 5th/6th gens.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There are fewer and fewer reasons as time goes on, but the big one is that it’s usually a lower up-front cost (in a lot of cases, still is) and just works without any fuss. We might find the fuss on PC to be pretty minimal, but on console, it approaches 0. PCs have gotten easier to work with, people have become more literate in how to use them, and the long-term savings on PC with a significantly sized library have become more apparent, but there will always still be a market for something like a console, even if that means they abandon some of their defining traits in order to survive the future.

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• ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Question; is it nowadays cheaper to just get a good gaming PC for long-term? (Including when someone does piracy related stuff).

  Nowadays, I can’t recommend any console except the Steam Deck (OLED). I do always say “just get a good Gaming PC and for handheld the Steam Deck”.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Even without getting into piracy territory, yes. You need a subscription for online play on console, and there’s a lot of competition among PC stores to keep prices low during sales, including bundles of games. So for perhaps most use cases these days that involve some amount of online play and playing a certain number of games per year, PC ends up cheaper.

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• newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Again?

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