these are atypical times.
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Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Remember when consoles would get cheaper not more expensive over time!? This thing is five years old at this point.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
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.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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