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They've always prioritized anti-consumer practices, they just used to have to hide them and hold themselves back because there was a chance we might actually stop buying their products if we got too mad. Now they've pacified us to the point where we'll complain even as we pull out our credit cards to consume more of their wares.
It's literally the same issue we're having in politics; they're not your friends, and they have never been your friends - they only care about improving their own situation. They won't care about someone who doesn't stand up for themselves, and things will only get worse if we don't come together to do something to stop their gravy train.
At least with corporations it's easy - you just have to stop buying their products. Even that's too hard for everyone to coordinate in this apathetic day and age, though, so they keep on profiting.
Yeah, thankfully Sony's gaming division is pretty easy to drop, unlike say, Nestle or something, where every other dime you spend in a grocery store ends up in their evil pocket somehow even if you're trying to be careful to avoid them.
Maybe there are plenty of people who will pay $1000+ for an all-digital walled garden console, but it's kinda jumping the gun for them to assume they've got it on lock since it will be untested until next gen starts.
One major misconception people often make is that they assume they represent the average person. You won't pay $1,000 for an all-digital walled garden console, but there are a bunch of people who just buy the next console to keep playing Fifa or Madden or whatever, and don't pay any attention to any of this. Sony is banking on those people continuing to buy their products regardless, allowing them to make more money charging more for cheaper products, even if they lose some of their more well-informed consumers in the process.
The point is, we don't know how many people there are who would buy at that price point because it's as yet untested. Most of the people with PS5s now got them when they were $500 or less. I'm genuinely interested to see how a console with a 4 digit starting price fares. It's a given that the PS6 will sell out at launch even if it's $2000; it's what happens after the demand of the hardcore gamers with excessive disposable income is satiated that will be interesting to see.
You're right, we don't know. Hopefully everyone will collectively agree that it's not worth the price, but I've unfortunately seen too many companies blatantly fuck with their consumers only to have record profits to think this is going to be any different.
My prediction is that they will make plenty of money, but console gaming will shrink as it prices more and more people out.
Oh, yeah, that'll happen. The tried and true method of making massive profits is to sacrifice long-term stability for short-term revenue, then abandon ship before it sinks.