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.

Consoles were also a lot simpler then. And we were finding lots of ways to reduce cost ( chip count reduction, etc) as technology evolved rapidly

But it's a whole console for the same price as 64GB memory, what a deal!

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.

these are atypical times.

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

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.

But we still don't even actually know what the steam machine is going to cost yet, do we? Could be a fucking fortune.

There's nothing left besides Gran Turismo for years now, and I'm not shelling $800 for a GT7 access box.

It's still ongoing. Might as well ask how long the cross gen period between PS4 and PS6 will last at this point.

I read an article the other day saying that Sony is considering waiting until 2029 for the ps6.

I really hope that's true

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.

Gamers, the most oppressed race...

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.

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.

Uhhh, have you looked at pc prices recently?

Well for a start that's the PS5 Pro and absolutely nobody is buying that.

That would be like me saying you can't make a gaming PC without a 5090.

Memory. Xbox raised their prices already.

Th prices of every component involved in making a PS5 have exploded.

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.

I mean honestly I don't think it's the companies choice to raise the prices on this. When you look at the cost of the materials to make it and the fact that all the other companies have raised their costs unfortunately I think this is a massive side effect to that. I mean I'm still not going to buy it I didn't want to buy it in the first place because it was already incredibly expensive and I'm definitely not buying it. I've been waiting for the price to drop on it and I've been seeing them sitting in Walmart unsold as they are with the current prices.

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.

Don't go all in with Steam. The people in charge right now are kinda old and the vultures are already circling.