2026-10-12 03:33 UTC
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@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-12 03:36
Og Xbox rocked. Because sega engineers made it.
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@LostWanderer@fedia.io 2026-10-12 03:38
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!
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@64bithero@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 03:53
The world may heal after all …
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@BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 2026-10-12 03:57
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!
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@frostypanda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-12 04:03
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. Last non-indie game I actually loved playing was Baldur’s Gate 3. I think AAA gaming is more or less dead for a lot of people. Those prices though. People can still game without consoles, and with the way their destroying the economy, it seems people have wisened up to that.
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@Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 2026-10-12 04:30
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
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-10-12 04:43
sales crash 33% to the lowest since 25 years ago steep price hikes duh
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@Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-12 05:02
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?
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@weps@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 05:06
"because mmprice too high and digital games* just buy a PC for 3 times as much money and buy digital games there bro dude
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@BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 05:19
How what Steam console doing?
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@theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-12 05:35
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!
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@fox2263@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 07:17
Maybe because instead of getting cheaper over the years since release, they have instead got more expensive.
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@CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 07:17
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.
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@creamfresh@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 07:32
What about the Switch 2?
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@404found@lemmy.zip 2026-10-12 23:59
I won’t purchase another system because I don’t want to deal with 1) constant downloads- new games, game updates, system updates, data collection 2) logging in all the time 3) not owning a physical copy of a game. They complicated the fuck out of doing basic things on their systems and I want no part of it. What have they done to keep the consumer interested in their systems?
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@nullspace@lemmy.world 2026-10-13 06:41
I literally own two ps4s and two copies of a game my SO and I wanted to play together, but neither of us have an active PS+. We would both have to resub just to play it together in the same room. It ended up being cheaper just to buy two copies again on Steam to play it together on PC/laptop. There’s no reason to own a console anymore. Their convenience is completely gone.
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@echodot@feddit.uk 2026-10-14 03:53
I can get a fairly good gaming PC for a thousand dollars why would I pay $900 for a games console that’s basically worse in every way?
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@Yenaplus@europe.pub 2026-10-13 22:41
I wonder how gta will affect those numbers, and how those numbers will affect the pc release.
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@MasutaHarada@thelemmy.club 2026-10-13 09:43
Do they know most of their customers have budget and they can’t just spend entirety of it for gaming stuff? There are also their potential customers that will gated by those huge cost for entry-level gaming setup. Also for those who don’t even have budget, why the hell they gonna participate on those out of reach game ecosystem?
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@LodeMike@lemmy.today 2026-10-13 16:42
Congratulations to PCs for winning the console wars :3