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VAMatt on 23 August 2025
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. 

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VAMatt on 23 August 2025
Shadow1980 said:

I do have a feeling this generation might be extended out to 2028 or 2029 to see which way the winds are blowing politically before they make any decisions that could be impacted by future trade war BS.

The problem with this is that they start making (essentially) irreversible decisions about the next generation far before the consoles launch. If they want to wait to see which way the winds are blowing after Trump, the generation would have to go to something like 2031 or 2032. And that's not realistic.



BasilZero on 23 August 2025
Zkuq said:

This is what I'm fairly likely to do at this point, and I'm European and was interested in the base model, not Pro. I still have enough PS3 and PS4 backlog to probably last until PS6, and that's ignoring my PC backlog. I would have loved to play the rest of my PS4 games on more powerful hardware and probably much faster loading times too, but it's looking less and less likely at this point. Another option is simply skipping PS consoles altogether and just getting the games on PC instead. At this point, I think PS5 has (or will soon have) a total of two games I'm particularly interested in (Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2), and they'll probably come to PC as well.

For me I already have a base PS5 which I bought two years but I'm not against incremental upgrades like I was in the past lol.

But considering I have all of the platforms (Base PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch 2 and a gaming computer) - I think I'll just stick to generational upgrades. PS6 for sure I'll try to get it day 1 assuming it has b/c otherwise a 2 year wait is fine by me. I think it would be best that these companies continue doing b/c.

For me, b/c is a huge reason why I got a Switch 2 because there's loads of Switch 1 games I havent played. Same with the PS5, there's huge amounts of PS4 titles I havent played but playing them on PS5 has been a huge difference compared to playing them on my base PS4.

(Never had a Xbox previously but the b/c titles from Xbox, 360, and One got me to getting a Series S which I traded in but got a Series X now).

I know majority of the new games are coming out on PC but I dont mind double dipping lol - because I tend to play multiple versions of games throughout the years (i.e. I played Devil May Cry games across PS2, PS3, PS4 and Switch).

And ya not a lot of games just made for PS5, a lot of them are still compatible with PS4 - I can kinda see why Microsoft is going the way of making their next console supposedly be more open platform and not a closed garden like a traditional console.



XtremeBG on 24 August 2025
EricHiggin said:

This song is hilarious! LOL

With PS3, SNY was on a major high, but so was the worldwide economy, until it crashed in 2008.

With PS5, the worldwide economy has been suffering the entire time since launch, just more gradually.

The difference is really that SNY has had the excuse of inflation for PS5, with a lack of competition this time.

So PS3 gets a $300 cut after 3 years, and PS5 gets a $100 increase across 5 years and a $699 to $749 Pro under 12 months.

Or simply, PS3 had price cut once every year by 100$ for three years. PS5 did increase in price like 20$ every year



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curl-6 on 24 August 2025

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Veknoid_Outcast on 24 August 2025
curl-6 said:

Meanwhile twenty years ago

Oh man, that takes me back. I remember buying my third GCN — a platinum model — for $50 at Walmart. I ended up gifting it to my niece and nephew. They loved it  



Azzanation on 25 August 2025
trunkswd said:

All 3 have now raised prices of their consoles (minus Switch 2 - for now) due to the bad market conditions. 

Here are the new PS5 prices:

  • PlayStation 5 – $549.99 (Previously $499.99)
  • PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – $499.99 (Previously $449.99)
  • PlayStation 5 Pro – $749.99 (Previously $699.99)

Here are the new Xbox Series X|S prices:

  • Xbox Series S 512GB - $379.99 (Previously $299.99)
  • Xbox Series S 1TB - $429.99 (Previously $349.99)
  • Xbox Series X Digital - $549.99 (Previously $449.99)
  • Xbox Series X - $599.99 (Previously $499.99)
  • Xbox Series X 2TB - $729.99 (Previously $599.99)

Here are the new Nintendo Switch 1 prices:

  • Switch Lite - $229.99 (Previously $199.99)
  • Switch - $339.99 (Previously $299.99)
  • Switch OLED - $399.99 (Previously $349.99)

Why is the Series X digital more expensive then the base model? Does it have a larger SSD?



curl-6 on 25 August 2025
Azzanation said:
trunkswd said:

All 3 have now raised prices of their consoles (minus Switch 2 - for now) due to the bad market conditions. 

Here are the new PS5 prices:

  • PlayStation 5 – $549.99 (Previously $499.99)
  • PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – $499.99 (Previously $449.99)
  • PlayStation 5 Pro – $749.99 (Previously $699.99)

Here are the new Xbox Series X|S prices:

  • Xbox Series S 512GB - $379.99 (Previously $299.99)
  • Xbox Series S 1TB - $429.99 (Previously $349.99)
  • Xbox Series X Digital - $549.99 (Previously $449.99)
  • Xbox Series X - $599.99 (Previously $499.99)
  • Xbox Series X 2TB - $729.99 (Previously $599.99)

Here are the new Nintendo Switch 1 prices:

  • Switch Lite - $229.99 (Previously $199.99)
  • Switch - $339.99 (Previously $299.99)
  • Switch OLED - $399.99 (Previously $349.99)

Why is the Series X digital more expensive then the base model? Does it have a larger SSD?

It's not, the Digital is $550 and the base model is $600.



xl-klaudkil on 25 August 2025
Cerebralbore101 said:

I just want to take this opportunity to point out something. When console sales tank in the next few years every analyst will say "Oh but the console market has been shrinking since 2005 so this is no surprise". This is similar to how "smartphones killed handhelds". But in reality, just like handhelds, its the companies sabotaging their own products that will kill the market. The 3DS was 40% more expensive at launch than the DS when factoring in inflation. It also launched with no exclusives outside of Ocarina of Time remake. Vita was a horrible joke and also insanely expensive. People stopped buying handhelds not because smartphones killed the market but because both the 3DS and Vita were way overpriced. If 3DS had launched with a 2DS XL model and Poke'mon as a launch year game it would have made the 3DS hit 100 million lifetime easily.

Anyway, we see the same sabotaging of the console market here by everyone but Nintendo. Consoles no longer have as many physical copies circulating so the savings of buying used games isn't there anymore. Consoles are no longer massively marked down at 50% of launch price. Consoles no longer have exclusives.

If a company actually supports a console with price cuts and exclusives it will sell well. Doing the opposite kills sales.

I agree besides the nintento remark.

Nintendo just destroyed the physical game market with there horrible anti consumer anti physical  code on a plastic sticky  gamekeycard + insanely hight physical prices of 80 - 90€

Nintendo is not a good guy.



 

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Cerebralbore101 on 25 August 2025
xl-klaudkil said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

I just want to take this opportunity to point out something. When console sales tank in the next few years every analyst will say "Oh but the console market has been shrinking since 2005 so this is no surprise". This is similar to how "smartphones killed handhelds". But in reality, just like handhelds, its the companies sabotaging their own products that will kill the market. The 3DS was 40% more expensive at launch than the DS when factoring in inflation. It also launched with no exclusives outside of Ocarina of Time remake. Vita was a horrible joke and also insanely expensive. People stopped buying handhelds not because smartphones killed the market but because both the 3DS and Vita were way overpriced. If 3DS had launched with a 2DS XL model and Poke'mon as a launch year game it would have made the 3DS hit 100 million lifetime easily.

Anyway, we see the same sabotaging of the console market here by everyone but Nintendo. Consoles no longer have as many physical copies circulating so the savings of buying used games isn't there anymore. Consoles are no longer massively marked down at 50% of launch price. Consoles no longer have exclusives.

If a company actually supports a console with price cuts and exclusives it will sell well. Doing the opposite kills sales.

I agree besides the nintento remark.

Nintendo just destroyed the physical game market with there horrible anti consumer anti physical  code on a plastic sticky  gamekeycard + insanely hight physical prices of 80 - 90€

Nintendo is not a good guy.

That's 3rd parties publishing game-key-cards, not Nintendo. N64 carts cost $10 to make and most 3rd party devs abandoned Nintendo for Sony due to that cost. Switch 2 carts cost $16 to make. So you either have key-cards or you have 3rd parties once again abandon Nintendo.