In keeping with the theme of prices, for those who are potentially interested in getting a PS6 or Xbox Helix, what is the most you would be willing to spend on one?

$700 for a PS6. PS5 at $500 was already a decent ask, though not like I was about to overdraw my bank account or anything.
No way am I paying $900 and up, or even $800. PS5 with a disc drive is now up to $650 and that is getting close and that's not brand-new console tech now.

I wouldn’t spend more than $600 on PS6 and I wouldn’t spend more than $500 on whatever Xbox plans to offer next. But I think those prices are highly unlikely.

I may just ride out the 10th gen with my Switch 2.

$1

Yes I am serious. I am done buying new consoles and hardware. Unless it was $1 dollar. So basically zero chance I buy any new consoles ever again. Switch 2 is the last one.

I don't know, but from the poll, $600 or less is the only possible option for me. They're already way too expensive for someone whose main platform is PC, considering paid online multiplayer and other basic online features, as well as the lack of competing digital storefronts and dying physical games, which keeps game prices high. I already paid 480€ for my PS5, and that was painfully much for what I'm getting, and I can't see myself paying much more than that for almost any reason. Consoles have become terrible value overall. PC gaming isn't exactly in a good spot either, but at least there isn't one party controlling the whole platform.

Depends what it offers of course, yet since I already paid over CAD 1,000 for a ps5 pro plus disk drive...

But I don't mind paying for hassle free VR gaming.

Given online isn't free... $500. If someone wants to charge a lot for hardware, then I require free online. They want to charge for online, then the hardware needs to be cheap.

They are not getting it bot ways from me.

Nothing, I would just upgrade my PC.

You can get a decent GPU for around R$ 1.500,00 around here (I paid less than that for my current one). And it's not like you need a RTX 5090 paired with an Ultra 9 and 64 GB of RAM to run modern days games.

PRAGMATA runs just fine for me, and I paid less than R$ 1.700,00 on my latest upgrade. Plus, it's much easier to keep everything you want to play on a single system, other than having to purchase multiple machines.

I can't imagine anything the console manufacturers could do to make me buy new hardware regardless of price.
My backlog of presumably great games to play is large enough to last me a life time with my current set up.

I will however buy more games that I find interesting even if I have no time to play them. But new hardware... maybe as a gift to someone.

Depends on PC component prices when the time comes to replace/upgrade some of them.
All 4 of them are AM4 based, so not much can be done for CPUs, 5800X3D is limit there and next gen consoles will have better CPUs than that. Which means new builds.
So if Helix is fairly better priced than equivalent PC at the time, I am kinda interested in getting two of them due to Steam being able to run on them, even if they are probably over $1000 (since PCs will be much more, if this memory/storage nonsense keeps on going).