| RolStoppable said: If you look at the timeline of inflation in my original post - Austria's development of inflation rates is similar to a lot of other countries' - then you see that there wasn't an uptick until after 2020. That's why inflation doesn't quite work as justification for Sony hardware and software released in 2020. The actual reasons for Sony's price hikes would be that the PS5 has better technology relative to its time of release than the PS4 had, and ever-increasing development costs and times for video games on the software side. But that's the typical gamer paradox: Always asking for better looking games, and always being surprised that that costs companies more money; costs which they then must pass on to the consumer in order to make things work. |
Sony actually raised the price of the PS5 a few years ago. People argued about the macroeconomics of inflation back then. I even remember some arguments about the currency rate in other countries compared to the USD. All to justify the price hike.
None of that went over well compared to this thread where at least half the users agree with inflation.
