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  • Pricing: $699.99 / £699.99 / €799.99 / ¥119,980
  • Moderate upgrades
  • No disc drive
  • Stand not included i-cant
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[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

They seem to go back and forth on whether they're loss leaders subsidized by more expensive games and captive paid online services or mediocre hardware sold at a premium to their captive audience. Last gen was AFAIK the loss leader phase (and the one before that was outdated, dogshit hardware sold at a premium from the start), so now we're on to the squeezing their audience for as much as they can phase, and in another 5 years they'll do another loss leader console, and so on.

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