The Series S officially costs as much as the Series X did on launch.
>>741912305https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/microsoft-lifts-price-of-xbox-consoles-due-to-soaring-component-costs.html
And much like the GTA 6 situation, these retarded corpos think it's a good strategy to pay Indians to post on here to gaslight us and call us poor for noticing that the economy is failing
>>741913204I don't know how anyone could buy anything right now with knowledge of how much more affordable things were just a few years ago. Feels like whatever you bought 3-5 years ago you're committed and locked into for the foreseeable future, if you wanted all the consoles & a PC you should've gotten a loan and bought everything together but logic and past experience was telling everyone to wait.
>>741912305>Valve releases steambox at an absurd price>Other companies: I want dat
>>741914270Valve (and the faggots that bought the Steam Machine) set the standard, now it's a console race to $1000 and beyond.
>>741914052>I don't know how anyone could buy anything right now with knowledge of how much more affordable things were just a few years agoProbably because it looks like things will only get far worse from here. People wanna horde up on all the technology they can buy right now since AI dystopia is about to turn that from something expensive to literally impossible for the rest of our lives.
>>741912305And to think that I felt bad for being an early adopter back in 2021, this stuff is an investment now, gaming is seriously fucked.
I don't even know if I should get a ps5pro now. I thought no way sony sits on a ps6 longer than Q1 2028 but even if they release early, at what cost ?
>>741915420It's up to you to decide if the AI bubble will pop and bring prices back down to reality or if the US government bails out the AI industry with taxpayer money and we're in this clown rodeo for the long run.
>>741915207Xbox Series X was not worth $600 when it released.
