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Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by misk@piefed.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

They are overpriced if you dont only consider the number value but also consider how much disposable income people have. Disposable income these days is in the negatives.

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[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Isn't the bigger factor how successful Nintendo and Sony have been in pushing subscriptions on people? There's this thing called TCO = total cost of ownership.

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