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Sony makes the """""difficult decision""""" to raise PlayStation 5 prices in the US
(arstechnica.com)
Still no games though
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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Uh what about God Of War V or Battlefield VI or Call of Duty XXVI
Every new "game" is like the exact same thing I've been playing 15 years ago
Don't forget the basically tie in bundle game they released this year that they charge $70 for, what a great value! And the console only came out 5 years ago!
people actually like astrobot apparently
Shit my refusal to spend more a minute and vibes for bits has led me astray once more 
From what I've seen of it from watching GDQ streams Astrobot is basically the only 3d platformer that's actually improved on the genre in 20 years. It's also the most painfully cringe thing ever in terms of the narrative and the flavor of the content. A dev team went and made the only good modern day 3d platformer but wrapped it up in the packaging of a shitty toy commercial cartoon.
huh i wonder if there have been years where the best short film was a superbowl advertisement.
Sure, but they need to release more than like one game a year for it.
God of War is a weird one to throw in given its Renaissance
it's a legitimately good game but it's also an ongoing Intellectual Property instead of something new.
ill i’ll get a game console again when call of duty XXX comes out
Sorry for you, but I'm over here with Duckstation and potentially as many games as I can fit on a 700gb hdd, all for free.
Great work on taking away the circus and making the bread too expensive. 
Oh who am I kidding, it will still sell because of shit like GTA 6 
New exclusive deal from sony: Sell one of your kidneys to us and get the console for half price!
lol, lmao even
the republican party is losing the Gamer vote 
they'll just blame biden for causing inflation by printing too much money (pay no attention to who was president in 2020)
I guess I'll make the difficult decision to never buy a PS5.
Actually, that was a pretty easy decision. Fuck that shit.
it is with a heavy heart i must inform you we want to make more money
I have no doubts that it was very difficult for them to stop at 550
It’s just in the US and it’s obviously because of tariffs. But nobody can say that aloud in public otherwise it will make Trump feel upset, and we can’t be having that, apparently. He can hear you. He can hear all of you. And it’s making him upset.
PIRATE
Could be the first signs of Sony bombing out of the gaming space. Although I had always thought Microsoft would be the first to go.
If Trump is going to save a domestic industry, I don't want it to be Microsoft. I mean, more competition is good, I don't want Sony to have a monopoly either and it looked like Microsoft was trying to find a way to exit the console space recently, so in that way it can be good to have some enforced competition.
But on the other hand, Microsoft fucking sucks and is on the BDS list.
The treats WILL stop.
It was already highly priced in the first place.
It's not price fixing if they stagger it out like this.