Why Sony, why?

[fake]

Has the PS5 dropped in price?

The discless system cost $400 four years ago.

It hasn’t. That was the whole point of my post pages back and people were derping over it. This is the longest a PS console has gone without a price drop afaik.

 

[kernow]

It's had a price increase in a lot of places

 

[fake]

Hey maybe if the woke corporation spent less money on their Aibo dogs, they’d be able to scrape more money off the supply chain and wouldn’t have to beg us for an extra ten dollars for a slave labor controller.

 

[Lagduf]

It hasn’t. That was the whole point of my post pages back and people were derping over it. This is the longest a PS console has gone without a price drop afaik.

Yeah i’m not sure why this thread is 8 pages, lol.

 

[deez_nutz]

I don’t have a PS5 so I am thinking of getting a PS5 Pro…mainly because I really want a PS Portal. My only concern is if my balls will get all shriveled from playing the PS Portal in bed? Does anyone know?

 

[deez_nutz]

Also stop crying about the price. The 3do cost around $700 when it launched like 40 years ago.

I was playing Crash n Burn like a champ while goobs were goobin out on Hard Drivin’.

 

[deez_nutz]

Hard Goobin’

 

[StevenK]

Also stop crying about the price. The 3do cost around $700 when it launched like 40 years ago.

I was playing Crash n Burn like a champ while goobs were goobin out on Hard Drivin’.

Was it rented?

 

[deez_nutz]

Was it rented?

Rent deez

 

[Lagduf]

Rent deez

Ok.

What do you charge, 700 GooBP?

 

[Moob Butter]

Also stop crying about the price. The 3do cost around $700 when it launched like 40 years ago.

I was playing Crash n Burn like a champ while goobs were goobin out on Hard Drivin’.

Did you have a 3DO at launch?

 

[yagamikun]

Did you have a 3DO at launch?

I got one in December 1994 when Super Turbo came out - I think that was after selling peanuts on the market for the first year. If memory serves, it was $400 by that point which was...$850 bucks adjusted for inflation.

Damn kidz these days don't know how expensive games were in the 90's. Current console and game prices are still lower than the 90's by and large when adjusted for inflation. Sure the PS1 launched for $299, but that's the equivalent of roughly $650 these days...or roughly the same price as a PS5 Pro.

The Saturn was a staggering $500 at launch or $1000 adjusted for inflation here in the US. Games? Chrono Trigger - or any special chip for 32meg cart on SNES - was around $80-$100 or around $190 in 2024 money.

TLDR: Video games are expensive.

 

[Takumaji]

C64? Nah mate, speccy!

High fives!!!

No?

Tak, don't leave me hanging

* high five

We don't need no SID saps or half-eaten fruit for computing, DEDD FLESH 4LYFE!

 

[deez_nutz]

Did you have a 3DO at launch?

Yep, well within a couple of months

 

[Takumaji]

$700 won't get you a state-of-the-art gaming PC but it's still a lot of money for an elaborate toy. I can't tell whether the high cost for the Pro system is justified or not but what I can tell is that I can't justify spending that much on a piece of entertainment electronics these days. Well, I prolly could if I really wanted to but the enhancements of the machine focus on games that I do not play anyway so it would be a waste of money.

However, I'm not/have stopped complaining about it. I'm not in the target audience anymore, fell out circa post-DC GC-era but still get my fair share of gaming fun so it's all good.

 

[Dr Shroom]

I have to say that the PS5 really is the best version of the PS4.

PS: please keep clowning on kernow

 

[everyone]

Can the PS5 pro do path (ray) tracing?
Also, does anyone know it's GPU has AI acceleration?

I'm assuming it can't. Only a fast PC can do that- with at least a Geforce 4070 (must be an Nvidia card), and with AI acceleration turned on (to boost the framerate). So, PC's are always ahead of consoles, on graphics capability.

$700 won't get you a state-of-the-art gaming PC but it's still a lot of money for an elaborate toy. I can't tell whether the high cost for the Pro system is justified or not but what I can tell is that I can't justify spending that much on a piece of entertainment electronics these days. Well, I prolly could if I really wanted to but the enhancements of the machine focus on games that I do not play anyway so it would be a waste of money.

It used to be that you would buy a PS2/PS3 as a cheap DVD/ Blu-ray player. It was for movies as well as games.
But Sony are moving away from that now.

 

[SouthtownKid]

The internet is no good here so I can't read replies, but I'm in line right now. I'm getting two of them in case someone here wants one.

posted from tapatalk outside bestbuy

 

[The Chief]

Did Tonk hijack the kid’s account?

 

[Yoshi]

The Saturn was a staggering $500 at launch or $1000 adjusted for inflation here in the US. Games? Chrono Trigger - or any special chip for 32meg cart on SNES - was around $80-$100 or around $190 in 2024 money.

The Saturn was $400. The PlayStation undercut it at $300.

 

[kernow]

.. $299 actually

 

[Lagduf]

£299.

 

[kernow]

£299.

Yeah in the UK it was

 

[Moob Butter]

I got one in December 1994 when Super Turbo came out - I think that was after selling peanuts on the market for the first year. If memory serves, it was $400 by that point which was...$850 bucks adjusted for inflation.

Damn kidz these days don't know how expensive games were in the 90's. Current console and game prices are still lower than the 90's by and large when adjusted for inflation. Sure the PS1 launched for $299, but that's the equivalent of roughly $650 these days...or roughly the same price as a PS5 Pro.

The Saturn was a staggering $500 at launch or $1000 adjusted for inflation here in the US. Games? Chrono Trigger - or any special chip for 32meg cart on SNES - was around $80-$100 or around $190 in 2024 money.

TLDR: Video games are expensive.

Yep, well within a couple of months

Cool, I remember seeing them in the Argos catalog (umm… like Service Merchandise in the USA but they never disappeared here?) for £500ish which was an obscene amount of money in the mid 90s.

I asked for one and got told nah you get a megadrive instead.

In all honesty, it worked out for the best. Megadrive library rules.

I did get a 3DO later (still got it) for £45 on eBay with an N64 also included in 2001, lol. Star Control 2 is pretty good on the 3DO, but the rest of the library… meh there’s usually better versions on other formats. (Well actually on PC now you can play Star Control 2 better than on the 3DO but stfu).

 

[deez_nutz]

Cool, I remember seeing them in the Argos catalog (umm… like Service Merchandise in the USA but they never disappeared here?) for £500ish which was an obscene amount of money in the mid 90s.

I asked for one and got told nah you get a megadrive instead.

In all honesty, it worked out for the best. Megadrive library rules.

I did get a 3DO later (still got it) for £45 on eBay with an N64 also included in 2001, lol. Star Control 2 is pretty good on the 3DO, but the rest of the library… meh there’s usually better versions on other formats. (Well actually on PC now you can play Star Control 2 better than on the 3DO but stfu).

Service Merchandise!

I had a decent collection of games for the 3do but once I got a PSX (and later n64) I all but forgot about it…until the early 2000s when I found a hole in the wall game shop while living in NYC that was clearing out 3do games for like $5 to $10….loaded up at that point.