lynx29Sony made a mistake not charging $599 a console... inflation does exist Sony... that's the reason gas cost 85 cents a gallon when I was a born and now costs 3 ish a gallon... its normal for prices to increase. Not sure why companies and more generally, people don't understand this.

Sony could provide a better experience (a controller that doesn't need replaced after 417 hours of use for one thing)

www.pcgamer.com/ps5-dualsense-lifespan/

TheLostSwedeMan, fuel is so cheap in the US.

However, consumer electronics and computers have gone the other way, everything has almost consistently gotten cheaper, up until now, since companies screwed up their long term orders because of the pandemic, which in turn is starting to show as some components are already 3x the price they were last year.

lynx29it'd be even cheaper if the Democrats did not stop the oil pipeline from Canada. I'm all for the green movement. but until you have that infrastructure in place and ready to go for every one - stop hurting poor people (poor people have to pay for gas too)... eh.

lynx29Sony made a mistake not charging $599 a console... inflation does exist Sony... that's the reason gas cost 85 cents a gallon when I was a born and now costs 3 ish a gallon... its normal for prices to increase. Not sure why companies and more generally, people don't understand this.

Sony could provide a better experience (a controller that doesn't need replaced after 417 hours of use for one thing)

www.pcgamer.com/ps5-dualsense-lifespan/

TheLostSwedeMan, fuel is so cheap in the US.

FreedomEclipseMy nearest gas station charges £1.20 per Litre of gas so that roughly works out at $7.51 per gallon if my math/conversion serves me correctly.

I say £1.20 per litre but we usually fill up for £1.10-1.14. £1.20 represents the upper end of the scale that we try to avoid at all cost. Which means that our tank never runs low because we stop and fill up where we can find the cheapest prices when out on the road.

lynx29Sony made a mistake not charging $599 a console... inflation does exist Sony... that's the reason gas cost 85 cents a gallon when I was a born and now costs 3 ish a gallon... its normal for prices to increase. Not sure why companies and more generally, people don't understand this.

sepheronxThat is a lot of systems for no games.

Well, Returnal looks good. I think that is about it.

lynx29Imagine if they charged $599 and invested in more launch titles with the extra profit? lol

TheLostSwedeWell, it would also have helped if most major cities in the US had developed proper public transport. I guess that's sort of slowly happening now though. But that's kind of a different discussion.

sepheronxI am going to say something very unpopular around here - I don't care for most of Sony's titles in the past while. Last of Us 1 was good. 2 was not really all good and I of course was no fan of the story. God Of War was meh. Horizon Zero Dawn was Meh. Actually, to be honest, all the games feel exactly the same to me. Then again, only titles I enjoy these days are old school style RPG's like Dragons Quest, Octopath Traveler, and the like.

I do enjoy the nintendo switch though. Mostly because I play it with my kids and some of the games, while simple, are fun and cute.

I would though like to play the new Crash Bandicoot. I had a lot of fun with the old titles back in the day.

dragontamer5788Gas cost $4 a gallon when the PS3 was released. In fact, due to fracking, gas prices have declined in the past 10 years. I remember when gas was well above $4, but I filled up my car for unleaded regular at like $2.80 just last night.

Not that you're wrong per se. Its more like you chose a very bad example. Gas / energy prices are down severely in recent years, not only because of the Fracking boom, but also because COVID19 forced large segments of the population to stay home (so airports didn't use as much gas / fewer car trips / etc. etc.). Natural gas has made electricity cheaper, and even solar / wind has contributed to declining electricity prices. Really bad example to choose, lol. Of all the categories of goods to talk about: energy prices are getting cheaper and cheaper.

TheinsanegamerNErm......wait a second here.

Sony said they were planning to produce 15 million consoles by the end of 2020, then backtracked that to 11 million....

wccftech.com/playstation-5-sales-forecast-cut-by-4-million-citing-chip-shortages/
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/sony-is-said-to-cut-ps5-forecast-by-4-million-due-to-chip-woes

THEN it went to 10 million by the end of 2020

www.vgchartz.com/article/444484/sony-to-produce-up-to-10-million-ps5-consoles-by-end-of-2020-says-sources/

Now it's "they've sold a whopping 7.8 million" and it's amazing demand? These companies are just plain making up numbers here.


Well they'd rather spend that money on not fixing the roads or dealing with nusiance properties. It takes a lot of money to not fix things.

The PS4 generation sucked. I was a huge sony fanboy with the PS2 and PS3, both had amazing first party lineups. The PS4 had almost nothing. They all felt the same because they were all "action adventure" games that played it perfectly safe and pumping out visuals to make up for it.

Sony has shut down a lot of game studios over the last decade, and its shows. And with HZD and ace combat on PC the only reason to buy a playstation to me is rathet and clank, and short of a PS2 style 6 game lineup on a single console I'm not buying a PS5 for that.

It also depends on where you are looking, places like california have been edging close to $5 a gallon yet again, while here in the midwest gas prices are barely over $2.50 a gallon.

TardianI am glad for Sony. PS5 ought to be a smash hit. The fly in the ointment is that it is in Australia it is nigh impossible to get one. My nephew has had one on order since the PS5 was announced. The console did NOT arrive in February as promised. I would love to have one myself but I am not holding my breath for GT7 to be released. Note to Sony: ramp up production. Sell to real people not to bots. When these consoles start being used for mining, then it is game over (pun intended).

TheinsanegamerNIt also depends on where you are looking, places like california have been edging close to $5 a gallon yet again.

lynx29Sony made a mistake not charging $599 a console... inflation does exist Sony... that's the reason gas cost 85 cents a gallon when I was a born and now costs 3 ish a gallon... its normal for prices to increase. Not sure why companies and more generally, people don't understand this.

Sony could provide a better experience (a controller that doesn't need replaced after 417 hours of use for one thing)

www.pcgamer.com/ps5-dualsense-lifespan/

thesmokingmanOmg, that is a metric ton of units in less than six month.

1d10tThat's great considering there's only small amount PS5 games to play with.

Isaac`their is legit nothing exlusvie to the ps5
its funny af