NAND manufacturers did cut NAND production earlier this year in order to reduce the over-supply of NAND chips which has thus resulted in price increases.

Add in the stupid Tariffs... And yeah. Things aren't great for consumers.

2 TB is not even enough. Are gamers repeatedly uninstalling and reinstalling games this whole generation? How super, duper dumb.

What a joke. That 1Tb is still not full 1Tb and since most Sony games are over 100Gb, some of them even close to 200GB i dont see how reducing size can be good. This is really...... First they increase price, then they lower size of Disk. Its milkmania time.

Shrinkflation is real..

This is next-level evil way to increase the price without telling your consumers you're increasing the price

I know I am. No choice really, other pay out the ass for additional storage.

I have a pair of 16TB mechanical external HDD's (Which are about 70% full), so I just transfer games on a per-needs basis... Plus the console keeps everything updated.

It takes about 7 minutes to transfer 100GB which is a significant time saving verses installing and updating a game which can take several hours.

Pricing is relatively easy to adjust compared to storage, so I really disagree with this decision, because there's probably no going back to 1 TB. If you want to be greedy, at least don't try to be sneaky about it.

Probably Generation 2 when the North American market crashed largely due to a flood of shovelware. And there's a flood of shovelware right now too and has been for years. 

And I thought the smaller 825 GB SSD was so dumb to begin with since they replaced it with 1 TB anyway. But now, things appear to be going backwards. 

I hope people realize they're doing that to actually try stave off the tariffs.

What would people rather have? a higher price or a bigger ssd?