Xbox increasing console price, accessories and future games. Globally.

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JackHandy said:

I disagree on it being pointless. I once asked Tom Kalinske what his recipe for success was. He told me that is comes down to two things: do what your competition can't do, or do what they aren't willing to do. And right now, Nintendo is either not willing to play the part they've been playing for a long, long time, which is the cheaper, pro-consumer option, or they can't. So If Playstation's president went live and said they are going to lower prices because unlike the competition, they believe it's all about the gamers... trust me. It would reverberate. Suddenly, you have Playstation looking like saviors and everything else looking like the crooks that the cynics have been claiming they were all along. 

It would work.

Other than the Genesis, does Kalinske have anything to show for his work in the console market?

Sony just raised the prices of the PS5 in Europe (and other parts of the world), now their cheapest option sells for €500 which is more expensive than Switch 2. There's absolutely no way that Sony will favor US prices even more than they have already done. Also, at this point I doubt that anyone is going to believe Sony if they said that it's all about the gamers. When it comes to subscription services, Sony's cheapest tier costs about 50% more than Nintendo's most expensive tier. Additionally, a PS5 plus a PS Portal costs significantly more than Switch 2 while offering a technologically inferior solution to what Switch 2 offers by doubling as a home console and a handheld console.

Besides, you are speaking from a very US-centric perspective, that's why you don't even realize that Nintendo is still the cheaper, pro-consumer option in the console market. Once Sony has increased the price of the digital-only PS5 to $450 in the USA, Sony's base model will cost as much as Nintendo's high-end Switch 2 model with the catch that Sony is selling 5-year-old hardware while Nintendo's system is brandnew.