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this is so stupid. Ps5 is 4 year old tech and Sony wants to charge you MORE for it.
I cant wrap my head around this decision when allegedly they already struggle a bit selling the PS5 in Japan.
they also have the Ps5 pro incoming this year. The regular Ps5's price should have already been cut to $400 so that the pro is gonna take its spot. If they launch the pro at $600, everybody is gonna remember the Ps3 and its ugly price tag and it's gonna turn off a lot of people from the playstation ecosystem.
this generation, these prices have gone up and stayed up. after they went down, they went back up and the prices were never cut again.
No, they've cut the price several times from my recollection (holiday 2023 + early 2024). I'm pretty sure they have done that when PS5 slim was coming out and there were also holiday sales.
You're confusing price cuts with sales. If the PS5 goes on sale, that sale price is temporary and it will eventually go back to the retail price. If the PS5 get's a price cut, that's now the new retail price and normally (for the most part anyway with these consoles) it won't go back up to the original retail price. This is a situation where they are raising the retail price to a higher price than it was 4 years ago which is pretty baffling. Especially when it's mid lifecycle and there's reports of the PS5 pro being released.
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yeah that's what I meant when I said they went back up and the prices were never cut again. the cuts were temporary, but the hikes were permanent.
well that's just what going on sale means. temporary discounts. it's not the same as a permanent price cut which is what @Venom 1988 is explaining to you. the only time that happened this generation was the Spider-Man 2 bundle at $450, but after that went out of stock, people were stuck again with the $500 box.
Nope. You are absolutely wrong about that. Ps5 stopped selling at a loss 3 years ago. they have been profiting for the vast majority of this generation.
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I am not saying it's surprising, I am saying it's stupid.
There aren't making these consoles more expensive just to be expensive though.yeah that's what I meant when I said they went back up and the prices were never cut again. the cuts were temporary, but the hikes were permanent.
well that's just what going on sale means. temporary discounts. it's not the same as a permanent price cut which is what @Venom 1988 is explaining to you. the only time that happened this generation was the Spider-Man 2 bundle at $450, but after that went out of stock, people were stuck again with the $500 box.
Nope. You are absolutely wrong about that. Ps5 stopped selling at a loss 3 years ago. they have been profiting for the vast majority of this generation.
Sony’s $499 PS5 is no longer selling at a loss
The PS5 won’t be costly like the PS3.
I am not saying it's surprising, I am saying it's stupid.
how do you know that? based off of everything Sony has done this generation - making everything more expensive from their games, to psplus, to the Ps5 itself, I am inclined to believe they are just participating in corporate greed.
they will use inflation as their excuse just like all the other companies when really (as it has been proven) they are doing it because they know that they can just get away with it.
The reasoning they are using is due to the Yen decreasing in value. They're prioritizing profits over their customers.
You are assuming these prices were raised because of greed and Sony just shooting themselves in the foot by alienating buyers - when Sony has no big game this year aside from Helldivers 2 and Concord just flopped. And who knows when will their next bigseller arrive?
I can say the same thing about you. You're assuming they did this because they have a neutral, economical, and honest reason for the increases in price but all the evidence has been pointing to the contrary.
alienating buyers? when it comes to traditional video game consoles and third party support, consumers have the option of either playstation or Xbox and it's common knowledge that the latter has been struggling to compete. the vast majority of buyers are going one way, if they are interested in spending hundreds of dollars in the first place.
Helldivers 2 was a sleeper hit, a breakout success that took everyone by surprise. Concord is the flop of the generation sure but a lot of people - yourself included - aren't interested in these types of games. what does Sony's next bigseller have to do with anything anyway? The Ps5 was sold out and scalped for a whole 2 years even without having a consistency of bigsellers compared to last generation.
it sounds like you'll believe anything Sony says, to be honest.
I'm not responding to every response you've made. I'm only responding to the last part.
That’s a big rise so late in the gen, and and with the Pro around the corner. Japanese fans don’t seem to have been treated the best this gen by Sony.
looks like a recipe for disaster if you ask me.
sounds like an easy way to avoid accountability when I've proven you wrong so many times. you are not obligated to respond, so why are you bothering to respond to me at all?
so why do you believe them now?
go ahead and believe them if you want to. I am not sitting here trying to tell you what you should and shouldn't believe; that's your choice, do what you want. I am just saying that they do not deserve you giving them the benefit of the doubt. that's my opinion.
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