Sony confirms hardware price hikes; PS5 Pro will cost $900 from April 2…
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Back in my day console prices went down with time…

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Consoles were also a lot simpler then. And we were finding lots of ways to reduce cost ( chip count reduction, etc) as technology evolved rapidly

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Hey! My ColecoVision kicks your Atari ass. Don’t you be mouthing off about ‘simple!’

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Were consoles really simpler then? Seems like consoles today are just like PCs whereas decades ago they all had custom shit.

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Yes

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Same with RAM, HDD space, GPUs, Phones… Shit the whole tech industry really sucks today.

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Its because they’ve already burned through all the good ideas and iterative designs have reached the point of diminishing returns. What’s something 2026 tech can do that six-year-old 2020 tech couldn’t? With the introduction of AI, a lot of tech has become objectively worse with no replacements in sight.

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Back then we didn’t have another bubble inflating prices every other year. :/

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