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EricHiggin on 19 September 2025

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'This is an expensive box.'

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PS1   - ! - We must build a console that can alert our enemies.

PS2  - @- We must build a console that offers online living room gaming.

PS3   - #- We must build a console that’s powerful, social, costs and does everything.

PS4   - $- We must build a console that’s affordable, charges for services, and pumps out exclusives.

PRO  -%-We must build a console that's VR ready, checkerboard upscales, and sells but a fraction of the money printer.

PS5   - ^ -We must build a console that’s a generational cross product, with RT lighting, and price hiking.

PRO  -&- We must build a console that Super Res upscales and continues the cost increases.

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Kyuu on 19 September 2025

Never doubt Michael Pachter's powers.

Pachter: PS5 Pro will get a price drop to $500 this year.

Reality: PS5 Pro is at $750 (and rising?). And Series X (2TB) at $800.



Norion on 19 September 2025

The 2TB galaxy one was already an awful price but now the value proposition is truly ridiculous when the PS5 Pro is cheaper. Sales of it will collapse even more but there will still be some amount of people buying them and I need to know what the hell those people are thinking. The Series S isn't much better considering for not much more you can get a PS5 digital. I am quite curious to see just how bad Xbox sales are gonna get in the US next year now.

My bf got a Series X at launch but is a PC gamer now and only really uses it as a blu-ray player nowadays so it's quite something that if he sells it within the next year might be able to sell it for more than its launch MSRP. Though low demand would probably make that difficult.



SanAndreasX on 19 September 2025
Kyuu said:

Never doubt Michael Pachter's powers.

Pachter: PS5 Pro will get a price drop to $500 this year.

Reality: PS5 Pro is at $750 (and rising?). And Series X (2TB) at $800.

As one 1UP user long ago put it, if Pachter told me I would live to be 90, I would liquidate my life savings and spend it all on hookers and booze, because that wouks mean I was dying of an imminently terminal illness. 



firebush03 on 19 September 2025

What market even exists for an $800 console? (Let alone an Xbox Series X.)



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Pemalite on 19 September 2025
ST.Tachyon said:

Sorry to say it like this, but, you need to me extremely dumb to think that price increase is because of Trump.
Price is up by 150e from its release price, that is 30% increase.
Sony and MS are now testing waters about next gen price and what they can get away.
I am done supporting Nintendo and Switch 2 will be the only Nintendo console, i dont own, i was done with MS after gen 8, now lets see what will Sony do but i highly doubt it will be affordable.
Switching to PC in 2020 was best decision.
I do own ps5 and S1 but i used them maybe 3 months in last 4 years, mostly Switch.

Tariffs are a tax on imported goods... That tax gets passed onto the consumers.

Other historical price increases had other pressures that influenced pricing... Hence why it appeared in multiple regions.
But this is US only. Only Americans pay Trump Tariffs in America. - As an Australian, your tariffs don't impact my prices from imports from China or other countries.

It's very simple to understand. If you believe otherwise... Then you are just plain wrong or living in denial.

Sony has done a "cost reduction" with the Playstation 5 to make up for the rising NAND prices by using a smaller SSD. Aka. Shrinkflation... But that has been in the pipeline for a long time as NAND is a commodity, price is based on supply/demand... And NAND manufacturers ended up cutting supply earlier in the year and A.I has boomed taking all the NAND it can get.

SanAndreasX said:

That's already where they seem to be going with the Xbox Ally and Ally S. 

I'm glad I bought my S2 at launch. I was incentivized to do so by the promise of tariffs. 

The Xbox Ally and Ally S are Asus ROG Ally products with Xbox branding.
They were never going to be cheap or even cheaper than the standard Asus ROG Ally products that they are based upon.

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BraLoD on 19 September 2025
firebush03 said:

What market even exists for an $800 console? (Let alone an Xbox Series X.)

The PS5 Pro is selling at $750 and potentially $830 (console + disc drive), so there is definitely a market for that.

A market for a $800 Series X tho...



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BraLoD on 19 September 2025
Kyuu said:

Never doubt Michael Pachter's powers.

Pachter: PS5 Pro will get a price drop to $500 this year.

Reality: PS5 Pro is at $750 (and rising?). And Series X (2TB) at $800.

I miss the good old times this forums was filled with Pachter's inverse joke predictions



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drkohler on 20 September 2025
Soundwave said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

Products that are designed to be mass produced and mass bought are very expensive to make when no longer mass produced. Not enough demand to keep buying in bulk to allow them to keep the costs low.

Lets just call this bullshit what it actually is (and always was) ... it's a Trump Tax on consumers. It's a sales tax on top of inflation. 

Let me guess: You have no clue how mass manufacturing works (I do).

What Hardstuck is trying to tell you is correct, condensed into a single sentence.



Chris Hu on 20 September 2025
drkohler said:
Soundwave said:

Lets just call this bullshit what it actually is (and always was) ... it's a Trump Tax on consumers. It's a sales tax on top of inflation. 

Let me guess: You have no clue how mass manufacturing works (I do).

What Hardstuck is trying to tell you is correct, condensed into a single sentence.

Under normal conditions he might be correct but when it comes to prices in the US everything is affected by the massive illegal tariffs implemented by Trump no matter how mass-produced they are.  All consumer goods have seen an increase in prices due to the tariffs.