| Azzanation said: XB1 had a camera included, of course its going to have a higher price point, i hope you are not this dense to see the clear difference here. PS5 went up and is offering you Zero difference. No camera included in the price hike. So, the PS5 is going up in price while their direct competitors who are just as greedy and maybe even more so are not. |
So your argument boils down to: Sony is not allowed to sell its hardware above manufacturing costs because XBox does not raise its price, too? And you even got a free camera with every (early) XBox1!
You live in a strange world. In reality, we have the following situation:
-The Playstation group lives in a world where they have to be profitable, both in hardware and in software, to stay alive. To stay profitable in the hardware part, they have to raise prices now, which is never a good thing. They simply can't afford hugely increasing losses do tue all the economical effects in operation now. To stay profitable in the software part, they have to offset the costs of keeping/buying studios as well as the huge costs building and maintaining the entire network structure. That simply boils down to higher software prices.
-The Xbox group lives in a world where they get (directly and indirectly) billions of $ every year to stay alive. And they need those billions.
1. Your weird XBox1 camera example. The Kinect2 was a very, very expensive camera. Any engineer will tell you that looking at the teardown of it. MS shoveled billions of $ into the XBox group for including that camera into the XBox1 package (Kinect2 was an absolutely amazing piece of hardware. Weird that it went down without too much of a fight, likely losing another few billions of $ as the project seems to have been killed entirely).
2. How much does the XBox group pay to the MS server group to maintain, use and expand the network structure? Have they been freeloading on it from early on so they can show black numbers in their fy reports? Who pays for their constant buying up studios?
Without all these suggar daddies, Playstation raising prices in the current economical situation is a simple necessity. Of course customers/you don't like it at all, but it helps that the hardware is going to sell anyways (at least in the foreseeable future while supply is insufficient to meet even a posibly slightly reduced demand).
Last edited by drkohler - on 08 September 2022
