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while i understand that this is "not their fault" in the strictest sense the truth is that does not matter because no one is buying a thousand dollar console

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I'd say this is totally their fault for being among the many tech corpos who thought AI was gonna make them all richer and that only us poors would shoulder the consequences for it

Sony gonna turn this into a real-world MMO quest where you have to break into a data centre, steal three GPUs, then give them those GPUs and $500 and they'll give you a PS6.

you know there's one guy in the boardroom who said "we have to cancel this. its over. we have to emergency pivot to the ps5 as a permanent long-life platform" in like february and he was shot down by the others going its not gonna be that bad we can weather it and now he's sooooo smug

Yeah nah they should've stuck with the PS5 core hardware and done everything they could to make it cheaper with each new revision until people actually start buying it and devs actually start making games for it. It's crazy to imagine the PS5 has been current gen nearly as long as the PS3

no no, they're actually extremely accurate, it's just for the wrong conclusions every single time, they NEVER get anything right by accident

In the same way, Hasbro has announced that basically every super articulated action figure and Transformer is now base price $30. That one I blame more on Trump specifically, but I do think it’s a line that many won’t cross.

even the 1k price point seems difficult to accomplish at this point. I assume that the current plan is to release the PS6 next year even if it costs 1.5k and to just keep most stuff cross-gen for most of the gen, which isn't that dissimilar to our current gen tbh.

in what sense? IIRC Sony has been doing great numbers this gen when it comes to how much revenue they are making so I assume that for them "it worked out". At the end of the day all Sony wants is for people to spend money on whatever system(PS4/5/6) and just take their cut of the pie.

The thing is even before Data Centers swallowed up the consumer electronics industry there was an argument that current Gen consoles could easily have a lifespan of over a decade. It kinda is Sonys fault for not launching it 3-4 years now