It was still well after the hardware was designed.

Not starting from scratch. Those are planned out years in advance.

Not everyone wants a mediocre upgrade.

The store real close honey

I think $800 for 2 TB was still a bit overoptimistic, but I suppose we'll never really know.

It was absolutely a thing right when the 3P app reddit fiasco happened. Everybody was scrambling, and I'm not surprised that there were tons more options even just a month later, but at the time everyone else was completely overloaded. I tried signing up for as many instances as I could find, and lemmy.world was the only one that wasn't shitting the bed with new registrations.

I heard from a trusted colleague that the difference is about $70, but you also get a possible steam controller discount + a sweet-ass form factor + better compatibility guarantees.

Why do you even bother?

What a coincidence, I'm going to be in the Bay Area next month.

Not a fair comparison. You found a very special deal for those drives which were half the price of a decently performant one at half the capacity at normal sale prices.

All computers are just a minimum of three layers of NAND gates

Versus around $300 now, so that would theoretically only represent a $200 price difference.

An existing PC game library, better pricing and flexibility for PC games, wider and more robust controller support ...

PS5 pro is $900, champ, and it's got vendor lock-in.

My point is that everything is more expensive. Sony jacked those prices up by hundreds of dollars already.

Why? 4k is already just past the human vision resolution. Anything denser is just masturbation.

Agreed - that's part of what I meant by "compatibility guarantees," but I should have called out drivers more explicitly.

"Equivalent" consoles are much more expensive now as well. The entire playing field is fucked.

Yep, if you lie about the specs and ignore everything else, ESPECIALLY VENDOR LOCK-IN.

I'm not watching a video. Share something serious.

Dubious comparison aside, the lack of total vendor lock-in + wider and vastly deeper controller compatibility adds massive value.

And AGAIN, all hardware is simply more expensive.

vendor lock-in.

A $600 difference seems way too steep - I still think $1k @ 2 TB would have been the best possibility if not for everything getting fucked by the slop machines.