I know everyone expected prices to go up but $650 for a regular PS5? OOOFFFFF.
Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC
Submitted 5 hours ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/confirmed-ps5-console-prices-are-being-raised-by-100/
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popcar2@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
But it’s a whole console for the same price as 64GB memory, what a deal
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 hour ago
I guess I’ll just have to buy even fewer consoles than I already am.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Xbox had already begun raising prices for the same reason Sony’s doing so now.
Bieren@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
It is memory prices? Or is it just the “we don’t have any real competition” increase?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Memory. Xbox raised their prices already.
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 minutes ago
And there are so many YouTube video asking why 3ds consoles are selling for so much.
Maybe things why.
CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Why do people buy a console instead of a PC? I just can’t understand, seriously.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
because pc gaming is a huge pain in the ass.
console gaming is not.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 2 hours ago
Yup. I wanted to play FF VII Rebirth, but apparently SE can’t be assed to optimize their flagship game for PC, so I stuck with the PS5 version because it just works. I don’t want to deal with stuttering and downloading weird drivers to get it to maybe not stutter. I don’t care about mods and ultimate graphics. I just want to play the game.
lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
rozodru@piefed.world 55 minutes ago
what console exclusives for the PS5? it has 7. that’s it. only 7 that you can ONLY play on the PS5. (used to be 8 but Death Stranding 2 just came out on PC). and of those 7 maybe ONE of which is a console seller, maybe, and that’s Astro Bot and while it’s a good game I say that as a massive stretch that it’s worth a $650 point of entry.
the ps5 doesn’t have any exclusives that drive sales. none.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Because I like sitting down after a long day and playing games on my big ass oled tv.
I don’t like sitting down and turning on my computer so that it can update Windows, then the game itself needs to be updated. Then the game runs like shit because my graphics drivers updated to a newer version that doesn’t work well with the game I’m playing. So then I have to do some research to find the best driver version to downgrade to. So then I finally get the driver issue fixed and start the game, but now my controller isn’t working because the windows update broke the Logitech drivers my controller needs. So now it’s been two hours, I’m tired, I didn’t get to play any games, and I still have more work to do tomorrow to get things working.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Feels like linux can fix some of your problem, but then it creates some other. So, fair.
Hond@piefed.social 2 hours ago
This comment. But now imagine not beeing computer literate. While consoles lost a bit of their appeal in ease of use the last two generation they’re still a nice little walled garden where most of the stuff is just working for you in the background.
I havent bought a current-gen console since the 360 for various reasons. But i get why somebody just wants a playstation and not a gaming pc.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 hours ago
The cost of building a gaming PC has also gone up dramatically.
A whole ps5 is about the current price of just a decent “value” video card. Toss in your ram and storage and you’re looking at three times the price.
wuffah@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
They made a fifth one?
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] 2 hours ago
if y’all are still buying consoles, you’re a big chud. stop giving billion dollar companies your pennies. emulators are free and everywhere! fuck off nintendo too!!
commander@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
PS6 is going to be so boutique when that comes out. PS5’s cross gen period with the PS6 is going to be even longer than the PS4s with the PS5
De_Narm@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s still ongoing. Might as well ask how long the cross gen period between PS4 and PS6 will last at this point.
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours 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”.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
lath@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Don’t go all in with Steam. The people in charge right now are kinda old and the vultures are already circling.
eli@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
All companies everywhere have old people. So don’t buy into any company!
Stupid comment
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Again?
SammyJK@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Back in my day console prices went down with time…
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Back then we didn’t have another bubble inflating prices every other year. :/
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago