DukenukemX
Supreme [H]ardness
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You can't assume that because people buy $1200 phones that they'll spend more on a game console. Also a phone is a necessity today while a game console isn't. A game console can't print documents, it can't check your email, it can't do anything but play games.You say that, but entire families of people that have a collective income less than 40k all have $1200 phones. All Sony has to do is figure out financing with interest and those that celebrate debt would be all over it.
A PS5 subreddit is going to be biased, and again you're assuming a lot here. Just because a PS5 is made more powerful doesn't mean it'll last the whole generation. Performance is relative and depending on what AMD/Intel/Nvidia produces afterwards will depend how long console performance will last before it looks dated.https://bgr.com/2020/02/28/ps5-price-range-500-not-enough-should-be-more-expensive/amp/
In a recent thread on Reddit titled simply “Unpopular opinion,” a user made an interesting claim. “I’d rather have a powerful system at launch costing around let’s say $600 and lasting me the whole generation than a weaker one for a lower price and then having them launch a ‘pro version’ because the weaker system didn’t age well,” he or she wrote.
Well, it turned out that opinion wasn’t unpopular at all. The PS5 subreddit doesn’t get much traffic these days, but hundreds of people still popped up to up-vote the post and add comments
The stock market was overvalued for a while now and I've predicted this event to occur for sometime. The Corona Virus is the catalyst to this situation, and not the sole reason for it. Since September of 2019 the repo market crashed and the federal reserve printed $4 Trillion and still continues to do so today. Economies all over the world are failing especially Japan. The way I see it if the stock market goes bellow 24k then we're officially in market correction mode. If not then this is a temporary event.I agree that 600 is too high, but I'm not so sure about the economy crashing. It could if Carona is really bad, but I don't think we can draw conclusions about the stock market.
I agree but in most cases when the stock value drops then one of the actions companies do is downsize and fire employee's.The market isn't the economy.
Less disposable cash means people will horde their PS4's, Xbox One's, and old PC's. Due to lowered manufacturing output, the price of PC hardware is likely going up, and this will have an effect on the price of the PS5 and Xbox Series X. 2020 was a bad year for Sony and Microsoft to release their new consoles.And it's going down because it was priced for perfection and now we have a big unkown with Corona. The good news is even if it drops 20%, most shares you own (unless you bought everything last year) will still be in the black.. Now if this turns into 2008, it's going to be awful, because the fed has far fewer tools than they had in 2008. I hope it's not that bad, because if it is, it probalby means 3 million people are going to die.. Ah WTH, buy a console (from the web) and play games, because you don't want to go outside with all those sick people roaming the streats
You live in a world where $400 "mid-range" video cards exist, but the rest of the world still depends on $250 or less graphic cards for gaming. According to the Steam Hardware Survey the most used gaming graphic cards are still the GTX 1060, 1050Ti, 1050, and even the GTX 970. Not the RTX 2060, 2070, or even the RX 5700 and 5700 XT. That's just a fact jack.We live in the world of $400 "mid-range" video cards now. Somebody run the inflation numbers on console releases? I bet $600 is nothing these days when it comes to purchasing power.