Gaming Crash incoming, or has it already began?

[Half A $]

Without talking about xbox…..

PS5 is down worldwide and it just had its worst holiday sales season in both Hardware and Software in decades.

Nov 2018 vs Nov 2025 (5 years into ps4 versus 5 years into ps5)

Sony dropped 43% (PS5 twice the price vesus PS4 Slim bundled with Spiderman)
Nintendo dropped 63.5% (Switch 2 way more expensive versus Switch)
Microsoft dropped 90.77% (Losing M$ that was trying versus 3rd Party Publisher M$)

Men lie, Meach lies, numbers don't lie.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Sony dropped 43%

numbers don't lie.

 

[winb83]

Nov 2018 vs Nov 2025 (5 years into ps4 versus 5 years into ps5)

Sony dropped 43% (PS5 twice the price vesus PS4 Slim bundled with Spiderman)
Nintendo dropped 63.5% (Switch 2 way more expensive versus Switch)
Microsoft dropped 90.77% (Losing M$ that was trying versus 3rd Party Publisher M$)

Men lie, Meach lies, numbers don't lie.

When factoring in actual buying power the PS5 is not twice the price of the PS4 from back then.

A PS4 slim back then sold for about $387 of today's dollars. A PS5 digital was $399 and the disc version was $450 in Nov 2025. You trying to act like $12-$63 account for a 43% difference?

 

[Captain Crunch]

Why should the government get involved with this? Nvidia can price these things however they want and people can vote with their wallets. This is an optional consumer good not a necessity.

This has a domino effect on a lot of goods. Your cars; appliances, smart devices(phone, tablets), and laptops will go up because of ram/gpu price hikes.

We don’t have to game, but most of us need vehicles; phones, tablets, and computers to do essential functions. If this price gauging continues to happen, we’ll have to finance our goods even longer to pay for them.

 

[ORDER_66]

This has a domino effect on a lot of goods. Your cars; appliances, smart devices(phone, tablets), and laptops will go up because of ram/gpu price hikes.

We don’t have to game, but most of us need vehicles; phones, tablets, and computers to do essential functions. If this price gauging continues to happen, we’ll have to finance our goods even longer to pay for them.

So we buy older cars and stay with the old game systems???

 

[winb83]

This has a domino effect on a lot of goods. Your cars; appliances, smart devices(phone, tablets), and laptops will go up because of ram/gpu price hikes.

We don’t have to game, but most of us need vehicles; phones, tablets, and computers to do essential functions. If this price gauging continues to happen, we’ll have to finance our goods even longer to pay for them.

The free market should be the one to solve this not the government. If Nvidia's cost go up and they need to raise prices who is the government to step in and say they can't? AMD and Intel should be the ones to take advantage of that.

 

[daze23]

The free market should be the one to solve this not the government. If Nvidia's cost go up and they need to raise prices who is the government to step in and say they can't? AMD and Intel should be the ones to take advantage of that.

the problem is DRAM prices, and that effects all GPU manufactures

 

[Pure Water]

The free market should be the one to solve this not the government. If Nvidia's cost go up and they need to raise prices who is the government to step in and say they can't? AMD and Intel should be the ones to take advantage of that.

The free market can't fix this. The scale at which these companies operate are just way to large for that to happen. They're also all focused on AI.

 

[winb83]

the problem is DRAM prices, and that effects all GPU manufactures

Have you seen the pricing of housing? People require homes to live in and the government not only let's it run wild but implements zoning policies that constrain the supply of homes further driving up housing cost. The federal government doesn't step in to stop this either. Graphics cards are nothing in comparison.

 

[daze23]

The free market can't fix this. The scale at which these companies operate are just way to large for that to happen. They're also all focused on AI.

yep, there would need to be more competition in DRAM manufacturing. but the barrier for entry into that industry is so high, that it's not gonna happen anytime soon

 

[The Mad Titan]