LOL Consoles are too expensive, and this is the find out stage of their fuck around journey. Its not all that surprising, especially with the ending of physical games on Sony's part and Microsoft being generally shitty... They might not recover for a while. Bully for them!

I'm amazed they've not crashed more. The PS5 and Xbox whatever the fuck they called it are both 6 years old, if you haven't already decided to buy one why would you get one now after the price hike?

Curious to see Nintendo's numbers in comparison.

And yeah, those prices are insane. At a certain point, just pay for a PC and have access to whatever you want. Plus, you don't have to pay an additional fee for online features. It doesn't have to be the best gaming rig ever, especially for most people. And recoup the money spent on a gaming rig by escaping the closed eco system. Wait for good sales on PC games or turn to the high seas.

And honestly, outside of Nintendo, I haven't seen a console exclusive game on Xbox or PS5 that I've wanted to play in years.

Those prices though. People can still game without consoles, and with the way they're destroying the economy, it seems people are realizing they can ditch the consoles for other options.

Raising Prices and making them the EXACT same as Computers but Worse didn't bring in MORE Sales? Quick! MAYBE if we Raise the Prices MORE it'll Reverse course!

-EVERY High Paid CEO ever!

Og Xbox rocked. Because sega engineers made it.

I've just bought my first console in nearly 10 years but it wasn't any of the big three. My partner and I are loving our new Steam Machine.

Gaming in general is way too expensive now.

At least we have retro games to play instead.

Oh no! Major corporations are not making billions?!

How can we help!

/s

sales crash 33% to the lowest since 25 years ago

steep price hikes

duh

The world may heal after all ..

I can't afford to upgrade my PC with the prices of shit these days so this weekend I actually bought a PS5.

With the new relapse jailbreak the PS5 hacking scene seems to be popping off and it is a way that I can play newer games at a more reasonable price.

Sony certainly didn't get any money though, I always buy secondhand and this is no different and they will not get any money for games either but what with Linux running on old old firmwares it is only a matter of time before these newer, crackable firmwares also get Linux support and then I will effectively have a new, better PC for a fraction of the cost.

In the meantime I can go and play bloodborne finally!

Hardware costs have gone up, compelling games releases for them have gone down (and didn't start from a good position).

Such a mystery.

What about the Switch 2?

these companies have, for decades, failed to provide any compelling reason to spend way too much money on a one trick pony when you can spend not much more on a PC that plays games (better), plus countless other things you can do with a PC, not just for entertainment, but work, production, bills, banking, and on and on.

consoles will never go away though. there will always be a segment of the population who buy into the bombardment of ads telling them that a console is necessary

Is this surprising? It was written all over the wall when sony went after anime hubs and pushed hard to shut down free portals. Now microslop is making a push to make movies? That's bound to go as well as sonys garbage. Scroungers looking for scraps that can't read the room.

How what Steam console doing?

Not just here but everywhere. Everyone (except those with too much) is holding tight to their wallet until trump dies and some stability comes back to the world.

"because mmprice too high and digital games*

just buy a PC for 3 times as much money and buy digital games there bro dude

Maybe because instead of getting cheaper over the years since release, they have instead got more expensive.

Consumers are willing to pay a surprisingly high amount for hardware. Just not for old ass consoles after hefty price hikes. The gaming landscape is being buried by data centers.