Sony will increase the ps5 price again.

[VAMatt]

Ryuu96 said:

Darwinianevolution said:

I was going to ask why people would feel the need to upgrade at this point, but then I realized that the console has been out since 2020. Boy time flies.

But going back to the topic, at this point, with indies becoming bigger and bigger, AAA game publishers needing to downsize their titles to stay afloat (after all, free to play and live services need to work on as many systems as possible to make a profit, so why push the bar?), and hardware costs increasing due to politics and general economic woes, what's going to be the justification for a PS6?

PS6/Xbox Next shouldn't release until this clown is out of office (2029) otherwise they're going to be expensive as fuck, and they're already going to be expensive as fuck even in normal times, Lol.

Governments are addicted to money.  Trump leaving office isn't going to magically reset tariffs to 2024 levels.  We'll be dealing with this nonsense for many years, probably decades.  And it won't just be the US.  Most of the world is moving to protectionist nonsense policies.  That, in turn, will lead to more frequent instances of war, which further degrades economic conditions.  So, I figure we'll live with the aftermath of populism (Trump is the most obvious case, but it's happening around the world) for at least the next 25 years.  They ain't waiting 25 years to launch the next generation of game consoles. 

Last edited by VAMatt - on 23 August 2025