Same price, less storage. Shrinkflation at its finest.
Sony plans to release a new PS5 Slim All-Digital console with an 825GB SSD, reducing storage from the previous 1TB to optimize production costs amid rising expenses. The PS5 Slim Standard with a disc drive will retain the 1TB SSD, and the updated model is expected to launch in Europe first.
What the fuck are we even doing at this point, as a society?
Transistors aren’t getting cheaper, and the industry doesn’t know how to deal with that. They’re still in the mindset that Moore’s Law has continued and will continue.
Then some clown convinced a bunch of people that he should be in charge of things, and he thought tariffs were a valid economic tool.
It’s post-capitalism. Capitalism was only ever capable of bringing about merit based class mobility and prosperity temporarily before the sociopaths all trickled to the top over the decades and then shut that shit down. Neo-feudalism is the inevitable result, and that will eventually be dismantled by another working class revolution.
All economies have lifespans.
TBH I’d just say were seeing capitalism approach its final inevitable form.
That’s essentially what I’m saying. It will always end up this way. Whether we call it late stage or post capitalism or just capitalism is irrelevant. It’s a system that empowers sociopathy and sociopaths will always choose to enrich themselves at the expense of the country and it’s citizens.
Yeah, wasn’t disagreeing with you. Capitalism is a fundamentally unsustainable system, it’s always going to eventually metastasise into a situation where a very few control almost all of the resources and the vast majority are desperate and impoverished. There might be meritocratic aspects to it in its early stages, but later on skills, talents and hard work won’t get you shit unless you’re rich.
The hard times are coming, so we’ll have to be hardened.
Dealing with knock on effects of a vindictive rapist trying to dismantle the global economy because he lost a popularity contest. Possibly at the behest of his russian handlers who want to fill the power gap.
And its gonna get a whole lot worse.
He’s a symptom more than a cause. This isn’t a recent development, just a recent escalation.
the snake is eating its tail. but ppl won’t rise up until they are literally dying.
so do what you can in your own life to mitigate these impacts on you and yours.
This is really insightful and very good advice
It fucking sucks how much this point illustrates the reality of this time. But it’s upsettingly accurate
This is just classic shrinkflation. Your bottle of shampoo comes in 32 ounces, they shrink it to 24 ounces without changing the price, then later they come out with 32 ounce bottles again with a higher price and a sticker that says, “Now with 33% more!” to make it seem like they’re giving you so much shampoo; and then the cycle repeats.
No, it’s not. Consoles (and technology in general) historically trend cheaper over time. Demand lowers, manufacturing cost lowers, newer tech releases, costs adjust to accommodate.
It’s very abnormal that the current gen of consoles has not only not gotten cheaper yet, but has actually raisen in price. Like, very very abnormal.
Shrinkflation is a real thing, but historically it has nothing to do with consoles.
Source: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/how-low-will-the-price-of-ps4-go.1520289/
Source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/are-the-ps4-and-xbox-one-really-that-expensive-historically/
Yes, but Moore’s Law has broken down, and the things that used to allow for consoles to get cheaper over time, via new revisions, are not holding true anymore. So in lieu of those things, we’ve got classic shrinkflation.
A 1TB SSD is 60€. In a shop.
They’re like cheaping out 6 bucks here
Sure, on already thin margins (I don’t remember if PS5 is sold at a loss, but Xbox is), multiplied by millions more units.
PS5 is supposedly no longer sold at a loss.
That said, the margin per console is probably not good enough for their required profit growth, hence this.
In addition to what others have said about Moore’s Law slowing down, there’s also just the fact that console generations themselves are slower. The cheapest price cuts on old consoles were fire sale prices to clear out old stock when they were on their way out. Even though the PS5 has been on the market for about as long, it still feels like the generation is only beginning, we won’t be talking about PS6 for a long time yet.
Node shrinks drove a lot of this. Those have stopped being such large leaps.
Normally yes, but might as well blame it on something and raise the prices while everyone else.
I have a theory.
None of this is real. It’s a simulation thats been abandoned. And now, all the errors are compounding.
I think it’s more that we have fewer and fewer small companies or competition. So price rises don’t deter consumers as much as they should, by allowing competition.
You can set up a restaurant as a person with financing. But the costs of doing so, fighting against economies of scale of larger outfits are incredibly difficult, but only the best survive.
Creating a console. Not even super wealthy corporations can successfully do that with billions of dollars and teams of experts. So if one is successful, like PlayStation, there is no reason to lower prices. There is no valid competitor.
Similar for many things. Amazon. Sure you can shop elsewhere but it won’t have the range or shipping logistics. Same with apple and android. Duopoly instead of monopoly. Nvidia. Monopoly. Facebook. Monopoly. Google, monopoly. Etc etc
Our economies are broken. It’s become about lock in rather than competition. It was gradual and innocuous at first. Tie that in with enshittification and shrinkflation and we have an ever shrinking shit sandwich with no alternative.
Stagnation ahead of a major societal shift?