Sony will increase the ps5 price again.

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Cerebralbore101 said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah I see a lot of "oh young people don't care about consoles any more, they just play F2P games on their phone/PC" but this isn't that surprising when you consider that young people are being hit the hardest by the cost of living crisis and consoles and their games just keep getting more and more expensive.

Gen Z are cutting back on buying PS5s or full price games cos they increasingly just can't afford it with rampant inflation, stagnant wages, rent taking up most of their income, and the the job market being a mess.

They're effectively being priced out of the console space, just like they've been priced out of housing.

I remember the trap of being too poor to afford good things and then having bad taste because of it. I thought MK2 and MK3 were the greatest games ever made because they were all my family could afford. We completely missed the launch of the Saturn because Toys R' Us was the only place that carried it and that was an hour away. My brother loved fighting games. We both loved Sega but Saturn was just too expensive and too far from us. 

Gen Z plays on phones but I can't blame them. I would have done the same. Thankfully things were affordable once I got out on my own. But that's no longer the case. You can't just work at a gas station, rent a studio apartment and walk to work anymore to be able to afford things. There's no cheat mode for saving on bills like there was when I was young. 

Yeah when I was a poor Uni student in 2009-2013 I used to play my Wii/360 games over and over again cos I could only afford to buy a game every couple months or so; caught up on a lot of the stuff I missed once I graduated and started earning.

And that was before covid inflation or the housing market going to shit, and when a game cost $60 and a console $200-300.

Kids now have it way worse.