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Assmad gamer writes to tabloid crying, to inform us all they will be buying an XSS.

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Eddie-Griffin

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https://sdpict.com/ps5-price-rise-has-sealed-the-deal-im-getting-an-xbox-series-s/

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A reader feels priced out from buying the PS5 and switches his choice of console to the Xbox Series S instead.

I assume there will be plenty of fans trying to excuse Sony for the price hike for the PlayStation 5, but I really don’t know who they’re fooling. Sure, inflation hits everyone, including companies, but you’re selling a video game console not gas and electricity. People don’t have to have a console and they’re certainly not in a position right now where they’re just going to take a £30 increase on the nose. They’re either not going to buy it at all or they’re going to go elsewhere. I certainly know that’s what I’m going to do.
I always take things easy with a new generation of consoles, although that wasn’t a hardship this time as I probably couldn’t have got the console I wanted at first anyway. I was naturally inclined towards the PlayStation 5, as I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the PlayStation 4 and I’ve never really liked the Xbox’s exclusives or their attitude, especially during the Xbox One era.
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I was put off the Xbox Series X because of the lack of games but also because of the bullying attitude of Microsoft, using its money to buy out everyone and making Game Pass a thing that nobody else could copy. I don’t like how they purposely sideline Japan either, or their focus on online play.
However, there are limits. I’m not violently opposed to Microsoft, it’s just a preference. I’d prefer to buy PlayStation 5 but the price and their peculiar attitude this year has put me off. They’ve not announced or shown hardly anything all year and they don’t seem to have any interest in engaging with their fanbase or treating them as anything other than commodities to be taken for granted.
And as much as Game Pass disturbs me, in the way it’s just bludgeoned Xbox’s way to success, you can’t deny it’s not good value. I would’ve resisted it but I’m afraid the obvious answer now, in terms of what consoles to buy, is the Xbox Serie S. It’s now £230 cheaper than the PlayStation 5, which is a massive gap with almost no practical difference in performance.
I will miss the PlayStation 5 exclusives but since they already seem to have dried up I’m not sure how much of a problem that’s going to be. It won’t matter though because for me, at least, I can’t afford two consoles and I’ve made my choice. It was going to be Sony but I feel they’ve essentially pushed me away and I can only hope that the things I didn’t use to like about Xbox aren’t too much of a problem.
I’m sure Sony have already convinced themselves that this was unavoidable, but it wasn’t. They could’ve absorbed the increase themselves. They already did for America but apparently no one else in the world is worth that special treatment, so I’ll take my business elsewhere.
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There's too much to unpack here that's silly. But looking at this article and many of the other articles from different countries that have come out since the price rise, I just gotta say, I'm not defending the price rise, but don't you gamers feel maybe there's just a bit of an overreaction going on here?

I feel like with all these views on the price rise, everyone's acting like it's almost the end of the world. Yeah, it's not good, and Sony's reason for it is a bit suspicious, but then you have Japanese gamers begging for steam released, that one guy working with a lawyer to sue them for fraud (what?), several other articles, and now this. I just feel that there may be some hyperbolic behavior associated with this price drop, but that's just me.

At the same time, while the title of this article is prime for a tabloid, it may not really be click bait if you consider that many of the people overreacting are casuals, sure they may not be non-gamer casuals, and may check a gaming forum once a week, but these are the COD/Fornite players we are talking about that watch people on Twitch, so they are still gamers, just on the casual end, and to them maybe this title doesn't seem as strange as what it would be to someone who posts on Neogaf, or other gaming sites that aren't as relevant.





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PS5 price increase is final mistake for Sony and PlayStation​

I think when people go back to this generation and try to figure out exactly where Sony went wrong, they’re going to reset the PlayStation 5 price hike announced this week. As the cost of living crisis worsens, it takes a dedicated business person to consider raising the price of luxury goods as the solution. People cannot live without warming; They can live without the PlayStation 5. Especially when there is a desperately cheaper alternative to gain control.
I’m not a fan, but Microsoft must be gleefully rubbing their hands at the thought of forcing Sony to raise the price, as they pretty much announced that they won’t be doing the same. Microsoft is rich enough to take a hit, but Nintendo said they won’t raise their prices either, and they’re smaller than Sony.


The absolute worst thing is that America didn’t get a price increase. Does this mean that the rest of the world pays to keep their prices low? If everyone had a price increase would it be smaller overall because it would have been more spread out? It makes sense that it should be, but of course Sony will never admit it.
For years, even decades, Sony has been exaggerated as this marketing genius, away from the gaming industry so that even if they suck like they did on the PlayStation 3, they still look classy. One reason is that Microsoft has always seemed happy to be seen as the loud, vulgar American newcomer, but this year it was Sony who seemed to have no clue.
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Not only was their communication bad, they made it look like they actively hate talking to their fans. This and the way they ‘introduced’ the PS Plus refresh seemed like something they were forced to do and didn’t want to talk about, like a kid doing chores. Everything, including the price increase, is announced in glib little PlayStation Blog updates trying to get away with saying the least amount possible.


Microsoft has Phil Spencer and Nintendo has Miyamoto and other developers, but there’s no public face for Sony. It’s just Jim Ryan who is a terrible public speaker but appears to be behind most of these changes. Or at least that’s how it started when Sony took over.
It’s been 11 months since we saw new gameplay footage for God of War Ragnarök, and it’s out in less than three months. And that’s their big game for this year. We haven’t even seen any gameplay footage for Spider-Man 2 or Wolverine, and that’s literally all the games we know they do. They should have more, but they can’t even bother to tell us about them. Again, even Nintendo isn’t that bad.
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All they want to talk about is PlayStation VR2. A VR headset that will almost certainly be over £400. In the middle of a financial crisis, right after a price hike. So, when they started making the headset, they didn’t know how it was going to be, but when they started saying this week it would be coming out early next year, they certainly did.
This went beyond Sony arrogance and turned into something much more dangerous for them. They look completely insane and not only have an obvious game plan, they also don’t seem to be trying. I don’t know what to say if they don’t realize it’s a bad idea to make the Xbox Series X/S more attractive by raising the price of the PlayStation 5 before Christmas.
Sure, they could have made a little less money without the price cut, but at least they wouldn’t be exposed because they were contactless and dangerously self-destructive. I’m really worried that they’ve lost it completely and that this is the beginning of the end.
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Newspapers and media outlets allowing any random person to basically run a blog on them was the death of news media. The NY times opinion pages were bleak.
What this guy thinks holds only as much value as what any given poster on this forum thinks, and if someone started a new thread any time anyone posted anything dumb we'd waste more energy than bitcoin
 
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So we're supposed to believe this person only just now decided they're going with an Xbox instead of a PS5 because of the recent price increase?
On top of that, rather than going with the now cheaper Series X they're instead buying a Series S, which was already cheaper than both a PS5 and a Series X since launch?
 
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Eddie-Griffin

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Update with alternate article from a different reader

PS5 price increase is final mistake for Sony and PlayStation​

I think when people go back to this generation and try to figure out exactly where Sony went wrong, they’re going to reset the PlayStation 5 price hike announced this week. As the cost of living crisis worsens, it takes a dedicated business person to consider raising the price of luxury goods as the solution. People cannot live without warming; They can live without the PlayStation 5. Especially when there is a desperately cheaper alternative to gain control.
I’m not a fan, but Microsoft must be gleefully rubbing their hands at the thought of forcing Sony to raise the price, as they pretty much announced that they won’t be doing the same. Microsoft is rich enough to take a hit, but Nintendo said they won’t raise their prices either, and they’re smaller than Sony.
The absolute worst thing is that America didn’t get a price increase. Does this mean that the rest of the world pays to keep their prices low? If everyone had a price increase would it be smaller overall because it would have been more spread out? It makes sense that it should be, but of course Sony will never admit it.
For years, even decades, Sony has been exaggerated as this marketing genius, away from the gaming industry so that even if they suck like they did on the PlayStation 3, they still look classy. One reason is that Microsoft has always seemed happy to be seen as the loud, vulgar American newcomer, but this year it was Sony who seemed to have no clue.
Click to expand...

Not only was their communication bad, they made it look like they actively hate talking to their fans. This and the way they ‘introduced’ the PS Plus refresh seemed like something they were forced to do and didn’t want to talk about, like a kid doing chores. Everything, including the price increase, is announced in glib little PlayStation Blog updates trying to get away with saying the least amount possible.
Microsoft has Phil Spencer and Nintendo has Miyamoto and other developers, but there’s no public face for Sony. It’s just Jim Ryan who is a terrible public speaker but appears to be behind most of these changes. Or at least that’s how it started when Sony took over.
It’s been 11 months since we saw new gameplay footage for God of War Ragnarök, and it’s out in less than three months. And that’s their big game for this year. We haven’t even seen any gameplay footage for Spider-Man 2 or Wolverine, and that’s literally all the games we know they do. They should have more, but they can’t even bother to tell us about them. Again, even Nintendo isn’t that bad.
Click to expand...

All they want to talk about is PlayStation VR2. A VR headset that will almost certainly be over £400. In the middle of a financial crisis, right after a price hike. So, when they started making the headset, they didn’t know how it was going to be, but when they started saying this week it would be coming out early next year, they certainly did.
This went beyond Sony arrogance and turned into something much more dangerous for them. They look completely insane and not only have an obvious game plan, they also don’t seem to be trying. I don’t know what to say if they don’t realize it’s a bad idea to make the Xbox Series X/S more attractive by raising the price of the PlayStation 5 before Christmas.
Sure, they could have made a little less money without the price cut, but at least they wouldn’t be exposed because they were contactless and dangerously self-destructive. I’m really worried that they’ve lost it completely and that this is the beginning of the end.
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UK is really upset about the price increase. Going overboard with some o the stuff here. Went right after Jim Ryan.
 
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