Report: PS6 2029 | Switch 2 price increase soon?

[kamikazekeeg]

I work in an industry that is very adjacent to the boom in AI adoption, and it's absolutely disgusting how much greed is fueling all this. CEOs and executive teams are frothing at the mouth over all this and they speak with glee about replacing large percentages of their workforce and investing in thousands of new data centers. They simply do not care how much this is decimating certain industries, all they see is massive dividends for themselves and their shareholders.

It's really crazy how bad it is and how there has to be a bubble to burst, which might be happening now with some recent happenings, because it seems like everything to do with AI and these tech giants, is just this circular money pit.  One company invests in another company or builds upon their own, funneling money around which looks great for shareholders and people with stock, but it's all being done with no actual profit or product being.  No jobs are being created, jobs are being loss, and these services make jack squat in terms of money made.  I think it was OpenAI where it was shown that operating costs were in the billions, but they were only making a couple hundred million.  The only people making money are at the top and now almost the entire tech industry is being ruined because of it.  It's insane.

I'm glad I got my PC built in 2024 (My RAM quadrupled its price from when I bought it) and I still have my PS5, but I was considering getting a Switch 2 or VR headset this year and I might have to think about doing that more quickly just to avoid price increases that are bound to happen, when I was sitting here waiting on a sale to happen to maybe save a few bucks on either lol

[marvelvscapcom2]

I work in an industry that is very adjacent to the boom in AI adoption, and it's absolutely disgusting how much greed is fueling all this. CEOs and executive teams are frothing at the mouth over all this and they speak with glee about replacing large percentages of their workforce and investing in thousands of new data centers. They simply do not care how much this is decimating certain industries, all they see is massive dividends for themselves and their shareholders.

It's really crazy how bad it is and how there has to be a bubble to burst, which might be happening now with some recent happenings, because it seems like everything to do with AI and these tech giants, is just this circular money pit.  One company invests in another company or builds upon their own, funneling money around which looks great for shareholders and people with stock, but it's all being done with no actual profit or product being.  No jobs are being created, jobs are being loss, and these services make jack squat in terms of money made.  I think it was OpenAI where it was shown that operating costs were in the billions, but they were only making a couple hundred million.  The only people making money are at the top and now almost the entire tech industry is being ruined because of it.  It's insane.

I'm glad I got my PC built in 2024 (My RAM quadrupled its price from when I bought it) and I still have my PS5, but I was considering getting a Switch 2 or VR headset this year and I might have to think about doing that more quickly just to avoid price increases that are bound to happen, when I was sitting here waiting on a sale to happen to maybe save a few bucks on either lol

Although i'm not directly involved in AI, I work and am a shareholder in tech adjacent companies. My entire finanicals depends a lot on these swings and sectors and boy am I getting my ass handed to me.  Trust me it's far worse than it appears.  The silver bubble already popped and the government is artificially stimulating it by revolving door buyouts from treasuries. It hit 110 an ounce for silver and has dropped like 40 percent.  If something like that happens to the stock market that fast.  We have a great depression folks.   And we teeter totter.  Now i'm not saying were depression bound but we are most certainly experiencing a mini crash right now.  Amazon logistics side of their business is intentionally using leverage to strangle brick and mortalr. Inflation, the gold standard, the bubble of AI boom, food shortages, wars it's all unsustainable and you are correct that there are big shakers revolving money around to artificially balloon their companies in hopes people hype buy and it can buy them market dominance.  AI is mostly fake hype. It's not real. It's not really a tangible assett. It's an illusion. Just like cryptocurrency.


What is far more likely to happen is a lot of companies are going to die, and with so many people being replaced by AI employment, its gonna cause major famine, supply and demand issues.  I'm already being swallowed by it and its only the tail of this hurricane.  I hope i'm wrong. I hope were all wrong. But this AI stuff is bad bad news.


On a lighter note, 900 dollars for a PS5 pro is the funniest thing ive heard since my first time seeing a Chapelle stand up.  How high will the prices go and how low will quality dip before consumers back away entirely and the entire gaming industry collapses? Atari didnt think it would happen either. But it did.

[sworddude]

I work in an industry that is very adjacent to the boom in AI adoption, and it's absolutely disgusting how much greed is fueling all this. CEOs and executive teams are frothing at the mouth over all this and they speak with glee about replacing large percentages of their workforce and investing in thousands of new data centers. They simply do not care how much this is decimating certain industries, all they see is massive dividends for themselves and their shareholders.

It's really crazy how bad it is and how there has to be a bubble to burst, which might be happening now with some recent happenings, because it seems like everything to do with AI and these tech giants, is just this circular money pit.  One company invests in another company or builds upon their own, funneling money around which looks great for shareholders and people with stock, but it's all being done with no actual profit or product being.  No jobs are being created, jobs are being loss, and these services make jack squat in terms of money made.  I think it was OpenAI where it was shown that operating costs were in the billions, but they were only making a couple hundred million.  The only people making money are at the top and now almost the entire tech industry is being ruined because of it.  It's insane.

I'm glad I got my PC built in 2024 (My RAM quadrupled its price from when I bought it) and I still have my PS5, but I was considering getting a Switch 2 or VR headset this year and I might have to think about doing that more quickly just to avoid price increases that are bound to happen, when I was sitting here waiting on a sale to happen to maybe save a few bucks on either lol

On a lighter note, 900 dollars for a PS5 pro is the funniest thing ive heard since my first time seeing a Chapelle stand up.  How high will the prices go and how low will quality dip before consumers back away entirely and the entire gaming industry collapses? Atari didnt think it would happen either. But it did.

I mean if rumours are to be believed 




Rather expect the higher end price range than the lower one

[Cartagia]

Yep, this was coming with all the news about chip shortages last year. A big part of the reason I finally bought a PS5 this most recent Black Friday.

As for Switch 2, they are apparently cutting production of new consoles by 30%. Nintendo commented on it but didn't necessarily deny it.

Yeah, this PS5 news has me ready toget a Swtlitch earlier than I planned just to avoid a potential price increase.

[sworddude]

Yep, this was coming with all the news about chip shortages last year. A big part of the reason I finally bought a PS5 this most recent Black Friday.

As for Switch 2, they are apparently cutting production of new consoles by 30%. Nintendo commented on it but didn't necessarily deny it.

Yeah, this PS5 news has me ready toget a Swtlitch earlier than I planned just to avoid a potential price increase.

it was bound to happen, all the negative rep with key cards, high prices and not the greatest games will do that to a console not to mention them adapting some of the bad new stuff from other consoles ain't helping either.

too many negatives few positives.

[marvelvscapcom2]

Yep, this was coming with all the news about chip shortages last year. A big part of the reason I finally bought a PS5 this most recent Black Friday.

As for Switch 2, they are apparently cutting production of new consoles by 30%. Nintendo commented on it but didn't necessarily deny it.

Yeah, this PS5 news has me ready toget a Swtlitch earlier than I planned just to avoid a potential price increase.

it was bound to happen, all the negative rep with key cards, high prices and not the greatest games will do that to a console not to mention them adapting some of the bad new stuff from other consoles ain't helping either.

too many negatives few positives.

Honestly at this point, because of all the things you listed and more. 100 percent agree. I'm more in the crowd of just skipping this gen altogether.  To buy one to beat upcoming price hikes to me which I thought of... is like trying to buy a diamond before the market goes up to propose to an abusive spouse. It's rushing to nothing imo. An anti consumer company weaponizing nostalgia and living strictly off fomo. It's to gaming today what Atari 5200 was to 1983's game crash. With not much "missing out" of the fomo being there.  Every person I know who bought one regrets it. To me I just don't see what is being offered that either hasn't already been done 20x, or is better than the previous generation in any regard.   It's sad to say but we are void of innovation.  This is a very bad time to be a gamer.  Retro is exorbitant in price. Modern is vultures seeking AI gains, and maximum greed.


I have no doubts in my mind we are going to see a gaming industry crash weather big or small within the next 15 years. GTA 6 is going to isolate so much of the player base into spending complacensy. Nintendo has already chopped production by 33 percent.  The only people buying switch 2 are resellers and people with expendable income.  The great gaming crash of 83 had all the same warning signs.  Oversaturation of derivative material.  Insane pricing that priced out middle america in the hopes of appealing to the affluent.  Recessions, wars and government mandates. Economical turmoil. Not to mention inflation. Now we have the AI bubble. And to top it all off and worst of all. Lack of innovation.  Absolutely decimated the market.  And it was booming to the likes nobody had seen.

I suppose i'm no future teller but who is going to buy a PS6? Lol.  It sounds goofy.  Like Xbox 720 and Okama Gamesphere. It's just parody at this point.   Switch 2 got off to a hot start but they don't break records with switch 1 by selling to us. They make it by selling to kids and broke college gen z kids during pandemic stimulation. It is marketed expensively, seriously, has terrible PR and predatory practices and it'll die because of it.   I have no doubts if Nintendo suffers Playstation does too because they follow their moves rather than counter them     I've never seen a worse gen since my birth.

[telekill]

Sony adding another log on the fire of why people shouldn't buy the next Playstation. It's been one thing after the next with them for PS5. This is the first console gen where prices have increased instead of gone down. This same time frame in the PS4's lifespan had it available for $200 on sale with Spiderman bundled in.

[2ko]

Although I've gotten more use out of my PS5 this past year, it's still far from where I wanted it to be when I bought it.

PS4 was a step down from PS3 for me, and PS5 a step down from PS4. Just the selection of games has gotten thinner as dev times have been stretched out, meaning a single letdown hurts way more. Back in the PS3 days there were usually a dozen or so games I was looking forward to in a given year. I mean really looking forward to, like I wanted to play them Day 1. PS5 though? I'm lucky to have half that in a year. And in years 1 and 2 there was even less.

I will likely be focusing on retro next gen and not making the same mistake of expecting things to pick up after a slow start. Unless they come out of the gates swinging in year one to change my mind, PS6 will largely be a skip while I focus on more affordable consoles of yesteryear.

[bikingjahuty]

Although I've gotten more use out of my PS5 this past year, it's still far from where I wanted it to be when I bought it.

PS4 was a step down from PS3 for me, and PS5 a step down from PS4. Just the selection of games has gotten thinner as dev times have been stretched out, meaning a single letdown hurts way more. Back in the PS3 days there were usually a dozen or so games I was looking forward to in a given year. I mean really looking forward to, like I wanted to play them Day 1. PS5 though? I'm lucky to have half that in a year. And in years 1 and 2 there was even less.

I will likely be focusing on retro next gen and not making the same mistake of expecting things to pick up after a slow start. Unless they come out of the gates swinging in year one to change my mind, PS6 will largely be a skip while I focus on more affordable consoles of yesteryear.

This is pretty much me too, except I do like the PS4 more than the PS3. As for my PS5, I still don't feel like it's paid for itself yet in terms of worthwhile exclusives and how much enjoyment I've got out of it. And I've had mine since 2021. I'm counting on next gen being 100% digital, which will only make my decision just to play retro and older titles that much easier.

[ssj4yamgeta]

Yeah I saw the price increases coming last year when RAM prices started skyrocketing. I saw that with the Black Friday $100 off and my 10% employee discount, $585 (before tax) for a PS5 Pro was the cheapest I'd ever be able to get it for, so I jumped on it. Man am I glad I did now that they're $900. Regardless of whether or not physical is still a thing next-gen, I'm done with mainstream gaming after this gen. There's just hardly anything worth buying anymore. From generations 1 through 7, every time a new game came out in a series, it was usually a significant improvement (at least visually). But ever since 8th gen, sequels keep getting worse and worse with each new iteration. Now they've reached the point where there's usually no point in buying sequels because the previous games were better (with very rare exceptions). I'm still looking at the next Xbox because I want a gaming PC powerful enough to emulate anything in my collection, but if it ends up being locked down in any way, I'll just go with a regular gaming PC.