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Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Idk, $699 USD for the PS5 pro seems a bit closer to "PC pricing" than I would expect from Sony if they're subsidizing the cost with future game sales.

I'd kind of expect them to be making consoles at break-even/no-profit, more than at a loss right now.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They can set the asking price to whatever they like but a lot of us cannot justify those amounts for what amounts to a toy. By this stage in a console generation I would expect a lot more games and a lot cheaper hardware. The reasons that haven't happened aren't of interest to me as a consumer (they're of interest to me as a nerd!).

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    The reason is simple. Inflation.

    The NES originally sold for $180 USD in 1985, which is worth $530 today. The SNES, circa 1991, was $199 USD or $459 today.

    Fast forward a bunch...

    The switch 2 is currently priced at $449 USD.

    The literal price has gone up, but the cost is going down. Slightly, but still.

    I'm sure I could repeat the same experiment for PlayStation, Xbox, or Sega's consoles and see similar results.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I think it's a little more complex than that.

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