Sony is raising PS5 prices, starting tomorrow
www.theverge.com
Sony blames a “challenging economic environment.”
  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    475·
    4 个月前

    Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Reduce comes first for a reason.

    You do not need a PS5. You don’t need a new console - if you need a console at all.

    • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      4 个月前

      A okay gaming PC withis not cheap. To some people, console is the only way

      Just buy used PS5.

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
        82·
        4 个月前

        My PC is not a “gaming” PC. I play games on it. I have access to a nearly 50-year library of games. Just because I don’t have the newest and shiniest doesn’t mean I don’t have tons of fun games available. And I said ‘if you need a console at all’. If you are determined to play video games and you don’t want them on a PC, phone, or tablet, then fine. There are thrift stores, there’s eBay (though that’s loaded with scalpers and scum even more than the thrift grifters), there are many ways to buy a used console. But I also stand by the thought that if what you have is working and being fun, keep using it. If the corporations have made it not fun, either go to older hardware they can’t do that to, or get homebrew set up.

        Don’t just keep it on a shelf “in case”. Don’t store it. And for the love of anything good, don’t just discard it.

        Reduce. If you think you’ve reduced “enough”, find something else to reduce.

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
        3·
        4 个月前

        Getting into that case also gets into pedagogical theory, because giving kids primarily analog entertainment compared to digital seems to be beneficial. I was talking about those of us adults who are already doomed. We have computers. We already have machines. We don’t need the new one.

        • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
          41·
          4 个月前

          Quality is exactly what we need in games machines.

          Not meaningless iteration and oppressive corporate greed. The 2600 was a quality machine - you can still find working VCS consoles in the wild - and when they fail, it’s usually something that can be fixed by the owner of the console. It doesn’t die because software tells it to die, or because of a known manufacturing fault where a simple fix was ignored because it wouldn’t have been profitable. The same can (mostly) be said of NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, SNES, and even TG16/PC Engine.

          Beyond that, I expect that 32-bit machines and forward should still work, even if disk rot is affecting the ones that weren’t cartridge based.

      • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 个月前

        “When I joined the Corps, we didn’t have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon - and we had to share the rock!”

        — Sgt Johnson, Halo 2

    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      74·
      4 个月前

      There is also the choice if making less money that companies are allowed to make.

      A company that is profitable will still be profitable if they make a tiny bit less profit.

      But that’s not even seen as an option anymore. The idea that a company should shoulder the cost of anything instead of the consumer is crazy to us.

      • mogranja@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 个月前

        And to top it off, if the tariffs went away in 3 months, would they lower the price back down?

      • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        4 个月前

        Why would they take a hit for something the US population voted for themselves? That makes no sense.

        • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          4 个月前

          Why would businesses shoulder the burden of economic downturns when they have the option to force poor people to pay for it?

          Why would they ever save for a rainy day when the laws allow them to constantly redline their buisness?

          Yeah that’s the question

          I struggle to shed a tear for souless corporations

          • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 个月前

            I don’t shed tears for soulless corporations either. But i also don’t shed tears anymore for a populace that systematically votes for self-harm

      • PhAzE@lemmy.caEnglish
        23·
        4 个月前

        Why would they make less money just so someone else can pocket some of it? Raising prices is the only and proper business decision to this.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      234·
      4 个月前

      No no, I’m sure it’s the fault of the trans kids. And the immigrants. I’m sure prices will go down if the US just cracks down harder on these threats to gaming.

      edit: do some of you dipshits have literal brain damage? If I have to add /s tags to something like this, it’s proving that we have NO hope for the future ffs, take your medication and talk to someone.

  • DarkDecay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    4 个月前

    Unfortunately Christmas is gonna be rough time for a lot of Americans this year thanks to the trump tax

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        104·
        4 个月前

        Literal millions of us (myself included) voted “correctly” for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we’re still getting fucked.

        Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.

        • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          4 个月前

          Dude, I’m from the US. I know. But the fact of the matter is that there’s shittons of poor people who voted for Trump, and they’re the ones most at risk. And they’re the ones I’m calling out

      • GalacticHero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        4 个月前

        Tens of millions of us voted against it and did our best to convince those around us.

        On the whole, we deserve what we’re getting. We asked for it. I just hope the rest of the world doesn’t forget that so many of us tried.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        4 个月前

        Eh, I voted third party. Why? Because my vote literally doesn’t matter in my state, since Trump took it with >20% margin. Votes only really matter in like 8 states because the rest have enough straight ticket voters to secure the election for one of the candidates. And in those 8 or so states, the misinformation was real, so it’s understandable that many people didn’t know what they were getting with their vote, they just voted based on whatever smear campaign made them hate the other candidate more.

        IMO, the fault here lies w/ Kamala Harris for running a mediocre campaign promising the “status quo” when most people wanted real change. If she ran a more interesting campaign with actual plans regular people could understand, maybe she could’ve cut through the noise and reached enough people to win.

    • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 个月前

      I once traded someone my PS3 for his PS4.
      I traded up, and he had two PS4s and no PS3 and he wanted one of each. It was a win-win.

    • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      4 个月前

      And a PS4 BluRay exploit has just been released, so you can crack the whole thing by burning a BluRay (up to a certain software version).

      Lots of legitimately obtained backup copies to play!

        • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          4 个月前

          There isn’t a CFW for PS4. But what we have is GoldHEN (which enables us to run decrypted games, also called fPKG’s) and various methods to run GoldHEN.

          Up to firmware 9.00 (I believe) there is a browser exploit to run it, up to 11.00 you can also hack the console via PPP (pppwn) and up to 12.02 GoldHEN can be loaded with a BluRay you have burned before.

          So you basically start the system and put it in a state where it accepts unsigned code. It’s very similar to PS3HEN. There’s also a method of hacking the console with some obscure Japanese games and one with a PS2 game. Some absolute madlads even made it possible to hack the PS4 with an LG Smart TV. 😆

          The channel MODDED WARFARE always reports on those methods and makes tutorials, highly recommended.

  • missingno@fedia.io
    752·
    4 个月前

    But the shouty man on TV said tariffs were good! Why vibeo janes cost more?

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        441·
        4 个月前

        Bad for the budget too, because a shrinking economy shrinks tax revenues from other sources.

        • Daggity@lemmy.zipEnglish
          16·
          4 个月前

          Good for the sovereign wealth black hole of money though! Wherever that ends up getting spent, likely on gold plating the jumbo plane bribe he accepted.

  • Timbo303@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    4 个月前

    I thought these increases were going to be as bad as Xbox by the looks of things. $50 for PlayStation is way better than I thought vs $100 for greedy Microsoft.

  • Deathgl0be@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    4 个月前

    And Nintendo over here raising console prices for shit released in 2017 I guess only thing in common was Trump.