Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1342arrow-down13
arrow-up1339arrow-down1external-link11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5arstechnica.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareampersandrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoTo be fair on the price increase thing, this is the first time in the history of video games that the cost to produce the hardware went up over time.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoAnd inflation is insane nowadays. Personally I’m gonna stick with my desktop and Deck
minus-squareampersandrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWell, it was insane in the middle there. Maybe it’s worse where you are, but in the US, it’s back almost to where it’s supposed to be.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoMaybe but that doesn’t mean that the value of currency has returned to where it was. Unless there has been some deflation that I’m not awake of.
minus-squareampersandrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoNo, there hasn’t been, but there is a distinction between currently experiencing high inflation and previously experiencing high inflation in the middle of a hardware product’s life cycle.
minus-squareDariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYeah and don’t forget that even with the inflated price, a ps5 is cheap compared to a pc as powerful.
To be fair on the price increase thing, this is the first time in the history of video games that the cost to produce the hardware went up over time.
And inflation is insane nowadays.
Personally I’m gonna stick with my desktop and Deck
Well, it was insane in the middle there. Maybe it’s worse where you are, but in the US, it’s back almost to where it’s supposed to be.
Maybe but that doesn’t mean that the value of currency has returned to where it was. Unless there has been some deflation that I’m not awake of.
No, there hasn’t been, but there is a distinction between currently experiencing high inflation and previously experiencing high inflation in the middle of a hardware product’s life cycle.
Yeah and don’t forget that even with the inflated price, a ps5 is cheap compared to a pc as powerful.