PS5 price increasing

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This is why xbox needs to remain a competitor to playstation, despite not winning this generation. When there is no competition, the only ones that will suffer are consumers.
PlayStation has already reached a level where they can mostly ignore what Xbox does on hardware. Over 80 million vs like maybe 30 million. The market has shown it does not care about competition.

Many consumers seem to want a single box where they can have it all. PlayStation and PC are the closest to that.
 

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I see you ignored the part about the summer discounts, the accessories, and all the other shyt that I mentioned. You planning on responding to that shyt too or no?

& So you telling me the stocks on the Nintendo Switch 1 were depleted when they said its going up by $50? Its not the same. What point are you trying to make here.

In the time Nintendo was fukking around i had several friends that were able to buy PS5s for the low and various accessories that are still the same price today. It's really not the same but yall gonna say its fanboyism to note the differences. shyts silly.
Sony sold...err shipped 80 million consoles. They've been making profit off it since 2021 and the whole time the system legitimately has done nothing but gotten more expensive. They could have ate this 50 dollar price raise because of tariffs as "the consoles price drop" Nope, they let y'all know as soon as they out of stock the price going up and Y'all dudes have been hyping them up the entire time while each year get less and less from them but givem more and more.

I want to say almost everything from hardware to software on the PS5 has gone up while they are #1 in console sales, if you lucky and stay in the US it hasn't been too bad outside of PSN constant price hikes.

When it's all said and done, they all basically have made up their minds to not take a huge loss on hardware sales if any loss at all going forward.
 
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PlayStation has already reached a level where they can mostly ignore what Xbox does on hardware. Over 80 million vs like maybe 30 million. The market has shown it does not care about competition.

Many consumers seem to want a single box where they can have it all. PlayStation and PC are the closest to that.
When a corporation has no competition, that's when they are at their worst. Nintendo has no competition since they are not competing with the xbox and Sony, and they are very anti-consumer. I wouldn't say the steam deck is a competitor since that is a niche device. A competitor would be one that appeals to the mass market. Were there a competitor that capitalized on their anti-consumer ways by being pro-consumer, Nintendo would change their approach because of the chance of their competitor taking away consumers. That same competitor would also be anti-consumer the way Nintendo is were there no competitors against them. These corporations will push the boundaries when consumers tolerate what they attempt with that being even worse with no competition. Competition also inspires innovation, and requires companies be at their best because their competition can take away consumers.
 
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Yall boys exhausting as fukk. Now I gotta go through your post and ignore shyt I didn't even say. Nintendo raised the price of everything they could get away with. How the fukking Alarmo bedroom clock go up in price? No discounts were offered on none of their shyt and they tried to heaux us right out the gate with $80 games.

So no its not the same as Sony raising the price of their system after a whole summer of nikkas chanting for them to raise the price. You had dudes on twitter tagging Sony asking if they're gonna do it. PS5 was $399 for mad long and we had summer discounts. Sony could've been jacked those prices up and the prices of all their accessories if it was like that.

Yall boys just like to ignore shyt to make it seem similar when its really not. Alot of yall had an alert in your phone so you could come in here and start beating your chests on some shyt that took a long ass time to actually happen and lots of offers were made by Sony before we got to this point.

You see it lol

These guys were more bothered by the fact Sony didn’t jump out the window first than the actual price increases at hand :mjlol:

Can't take pro-consumer talk in here seriously
 

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Yall boys exhausting as fukk. Now I gotta go through your post and ignore shyt I didn't even say. Nintendo raised the price of everything they could get away with. How the fukking Alarmo bedroom clock go up in price? No discounts were offered on none of their shyt and they tried to heaux us right out the gate with $80 games.

So no its not the same as Sony raising the price of their system after a whole summer of nikkas chanting for them to raise the price. You had dudes on twitter tagging Sony asking if they're gonna do it. PS5 was $399 for mad long and we had summer discounts. Sony could've been jacked those prices up and the prices of all their accessories if it was like that.

Yall boys just like to ignore shyt to make it seem similar when its really not. Alot of yall had an alert in your phone so you could come in here and start beating your chests on some shyt that took a long ass time to actually happen and lots of offers were made by Sony before we got to this point.
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That's basically how this forum works or how Meach and em argues. Deliberate ignoring of context and other info to just waste your time arguing. You point this out and apparently you're a foaming at the mouth fanboy who can't speak on anything.
 

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This whole discourse is just so weird. Companies don’t owe it to consumers to price a certain way and consumers don’t owe it to companies to buy their products.

A company raising the price of their products especially when it’s known the cost of the product has gone up isn’t anti-consumer.

The people that run these companies have a responsibility to enrich the shareholders not please the customers. Their attempts to please customers are a means to enriching the shareholders and they do it when it serves that goal.

All this is especially wild in video games where consumers latch on to corporations with this whole attitude of they’re my buddy and we’re on the same side attitude. That couldn’t be further from the truth. While fans hold positive feelings towards the company to a corporation fans are cattle to be milked.
 

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This whole discourse is just so weird. Companies don’t owe it to consumers to price a certain way and consumers don’t owe it to companies to buy their products.

A company raising the price of their products especially when it’s known the cost of the product has gone up isn’t anti-consumer.

The people that run these companies have a responsibility to enrich the shareholders not please the customers. Their attempts to please customers are a means to enriching the shareholders and they do it when it serves that goal.

All this is especially wild in video games where consumers latch on to corporations with this whole attitude of they’re my buddy and we’re on the same side attitude. That couldn’t be further from the truth. While fans hold positive feelings towards the company to a corporation fans are cattle to be milked.
Which is why the stan war debates that take on this site and social media will never not be goofy as all of these companies view you in the same lense.
 

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That's basically how this forum works or how Meach and em argues. Deliberate ignoring of context and other info to just waste your time arguing. You point this out and apparently you're a foaming at the mouth fanboy who can't speak on anything.
GTFOH you cult dikk suckin weirdo.

We got decades of receipts of you contradicting yourself, lying, changing your stances etc.

Huge lack of self awareness here.

Cult member really believe their reality is real :wow:
 

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Yall boys just like to ignore shyt to make it seem similar when its really not.
Yall cult members like to take hard line stances of outrage and “concern” when it’s about anything but sony, then when sony does the same shyt you spend your time trying to explain away why “that was different”

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ass nikkas :smh:
 

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folks keep it congruent. This is fukk shyt from sony just like its fukk shyt for ms.

The argument of you should have already bought one is retarded.
This is on 47. The US-Japan tariff dispute is hurting Japan big time. Some of their businesses are even opening spots in nasty ass India to combat the tariffs. :scust:

Some held out longer than others.

I'm more interested in what's going to be the case when he's gone.
 
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