Well that's that then. Our Civilization was good while it lasted.

At $800, lol, some how I think you'll be able to pick one up just fine. Maybe not for the first month, but after that ... this is probably another things that going to go out the window ... game hardware that's hard to find for months at a time. PS5 Pro you could walk into a store and get one on launch day with no pre-order with no fuss, Switch 2 is easy to find even though the sales volume is high, etc. etc. 

Whatever is in stock now are the same prices before the price increase, buy now if anyone wants a PS5.

Hm, I might sell my base PS5. Might make a profit or break even from buying it new in 2021. I mostly play my PS5 games on my PS5 Pro, which I have at my partner's house, and then use portal to stream them when at home. So my base PS5 has mostly been collecting dust.

Keep yourself the back up incase sonething goes wrong with your pro. Ps5's might be 1000 yet. 

That's a good point. I usually don't sell old consoles for this reason. Hm... 

And people said when MS raised the XB prices, that was a nail in the coffin for the Series platform. What are they going to say about PS5? If anything, their pricing now makes XB more attractive (from a price to performance pov). X has always been better hardware than the base 5, MS just didnt put in the effort to show it let alone leverage 3rd parties to try and get the most out of it.

The price to performance ladder looks like this:
512gb Series S $400
1tb Series S $450
827gb PS5 (digital) $600
1tb Series X (digital) $600
1tb PS5 (disc) $650
1tb Series X (disc) $650
2tb Series X (disc) $800
2tb PS5 Pro (digital) $900

If anyone thinks Switch 2 won't suffer the same fate if RAM/SSD/GPU prices don't come down.

Nobody is buying Xbox, good effort though.

Switch 2 does have an advantage in that its ram and storage are a lot slower and it has less of it than the other systems (outside of Series S.) Its GPU is also on a relatively old manufacturing node, so it's not competing with newer harder much there. 

I'd say it is relatively insulated a bit compared to the other platforms. Nintendo also has more of a margin too when it comes to profits on hardware. 

I think if SW2 does increase in price it'll be something like a $50 increase, which still puts it $100 less than a digital-only PS5 and $150 less than PS5 with disk drive. 

Nintendo's bigger problem is the price of physical carts cutting into their software profits. Which is why this happened. But it is hard for them to tell people to go full digital when Micro SD Express cards are also pretty expensive now.