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New Price increases for PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal remote player. Effective April 2nd.
(blog.playstation.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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Just sad that they are confident people are still going to waste money on this and not just buy optimised games for existing computers. Gamers need a cultural revolution.
No they are not. The total cost of ownership is much higher with consoles. That is even if you don't pirate. Not to mention that the buying price for consoles is only competitive in the first few years of a generation.
No, you wait around inserting a disk, and for a 100GB update to finish.
This is a bad thing. On PC, I can decide to play it how I want. Do I want to trave in fidelity for performance? I can. Do I want to do the reverse? I can.
They don't let you check fps on consoles because of you knew how pathetic it was, and if you ever had any experience playing on PC, you'd know how much of a rip off consoles are and switch over.
This is never the case. A wide range of hardware work with PC games. PC parts are interoperable by design. The two main GPU vendors - AMD and Intel, optimize the hell out of their drivers. If a game is optimized, it is automatically optimized for all hardware.
I have a PC and an inherited PS5, I use the PS5 more because I'm lazy and spend all day on a computer for work. When I get home the last thing I want to do is sit at a desk and touch a keyboard lol
These are cheaper than computers most of the time still, especially to play certain games.
Consoles are more expensive than PCs for equivalent performance for most of a console generation.
When a new console generation starts, they are price competitive over PCs for a year or two, but even then, they are not price competitive in terms of the total cost of ownership. Games on PC are significantly cheaper. Online services are free as opposed to a subscription on consoles. And I haven't even touched piracy, which you can't do on consoles.