They didn't have to but they either swallow the additional costs that they did not cause and make less profit, or pass the costs on, as almost every company does in every situation.
Changing of product and pricing strategy. I believe it started last gen where MS and Sony arent going to be bankrolling $100-200 subsidies for consoles. They want them to either breakeven-ish or even making a bit or profit right from the early sales.
LOL, They are all making record profits with help from Orange Man, do you think permanent reduction of corporation tax is bad for the books?
Yeh, what happened to ps3 era sony when they proudly sold their console with 200$ subsidized value? They making crazy profit yearly yet have to raise price of all their hardware? Where is any kind of logic in that FFS?
So they weren't making record profits prior to January? what are you smoking? Turn off CNN. It's bad for you.
Their price increase is smaller than the tariffs. Their price increase is even smaller than the tariffs+inflation.
No, a few of them (not the case of most of them at all) are making record profits despite having the Orange Man and other ones heavily damaging their revenue and profits with things like tariffs and bans to certain countries that are important for their businesses, plus forcing countries like the European puppets destroy their own economies, also negatively impacting in businesses like the PS one.
What happened in the PS3 era was that selling too expensive PS hardware at a too high loss generated historical loses for SIE.
Dude, I'm not even American, not white knighting anyone. I wrote several times that tariffs and corporate greed are BOTH to blame.
Corpo will USE 'bUt ThE TaRRiFs' as a means to get consumers to be like "ok Big corpo, you are right, bless your hearts and records profits, we will pay them"
yep but I already said that is what I am saying.
It's why I do not feel bad buying second hand or games on key sites like CD Keys etc
Sony is making record profits this gen despite terrible failure of their GAAS initiative, which means they are not suffering financially at all and raising hardware prices across the board means they decided no more subsidized hardware, unlike ps1/2/3/4 gens, that strategy brings them profits but from my pov it will only be shortterm, longterm it will push more ppl into pc market and that will negatively impact sony's future profit, not just from exclusives, but even more importantly 3rd party games, sony wont get that 30% cut anymore on those
Besides the white knighting people do for record breaking conglomerates.Sony is making record profits this gen despite terrible failure of their GAAS initiative, which means they are not suffering financially at all and raising hardware prices across the board means they decided no more subsidized hardware, unlike ps1/2/3/4 gens, that strategy brings them profits but from my pov it will only be shortterm, longterm it will push more ppl into pc market and that will negatively impact sony's future profit, not just from exclusives, but even more importantly 3rd party games, sony wont get that 30% cut anymore on those
Because most companies keep pushing until the consumer says no more
Simple.
Their GaaS initiative isn't a failure at all: the opposite. They released 6 of the 12 and 4 of them are big hits that generated 40% of their first party revenue last quarter. First party revenue that is approximatedly twice as big as it was before the GaaS initiative.
This is another lie, Sony mentioned to the investors they are subsidizing the hardware selling it at a loss and explained that price increases were due to components increases, inflation and more recently were doing actions to reduce or delay of the impact tariffs of tariffs but that pretty likely were also going to cause price increases.
This is another lie, Sony mentioned multiple times (and we saw it in their numbers) that their PC has a huge ROI for them -knowing the price of some of their ports we know that even ports like Sackboy are profitable even when they only had sold around 18K copies.pc market and that will negatively impact sony's future profit, not just from exclusives, but even more importantly 3rd party games, sony wont get that 30% cut anymore on those
True and they are correct and we will put up with it and beg for more
Nobody believes your BS yurinka.
It's no different than any other industry increasing prices. They keep doing it until there's that breaking point it bombs the sales.
Give and inch and take a mile.
I know that there are several gaming flatearthers like you, who reject the oficial, objective and factual data reported in the Sony fiscal reports and statements to their investors when they present their numbers.
No, flatearther.
The switch tech was old and outdated in 2017 and they are already mass produced, doubt Nintendo even has to manufacture many anymore. But $300 for a bog standard launch Switch and laughable to me.
Ok, so how u explain 3499pln official sony ps5pr0 launchprice here in poland, thats 965usd, we dont have trump tarrifs obviously and are part of EU...
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That all went out the window when PCMR started accepting $2000+ gpus. long before $700 PS5 Pros came around. At least in the gaming sphere.
True.
I aint saying it's the only reason, but clearly gaming enthusiasts are willing to spend money and manufacturers would be foolish to leave that money on the table.True.
The old rule stands, if it's not the fault of an Bot, It'll be the fault of a PCMR
Ok, so I was mainly just saying what you were saying in my own way and adding my two cents.yep but I already said that is what I am saying.
The last price increase -and pretty likely an upcoming one- was to distribute worldwide the effort of trying to compensate the impacts of tariffs that the US players were going to pay.
Sony gives a fuck of not repeating the loses disaster they had in PS3, won't have the same mistake of having insane loses per each hardware unit sold, even if the are ok having a small lose per hardware unit that later gets compensated with the rest (games, services and accesories for the console).
Nor Amazon, Walmart and Target...the digital has been $450 since the slim revision.
It's hard to swallow and many would prefer for for-profit corporations to work like charity.
Seriously. I don't see anything on the horizon that's actually worth these price increases.
Honestly, given the state of the world the last 5 years, only a 2-3% differential is pretty stellar really.
Yep.
Unfortunately, the average salary isn't accounting for inflation.
Bro, they are only in good shape coz they had no competition(no direct one) from both xbox and ninny for a while, if their mindset/actions/proposition was as bad durning ps1/2/3 they would get fucked sidewise =D
