@Hereanthere
“I would be very upset if I paid that much for this offering”
Well that’s the beauty of it, you don’t have to pay for anything you don’t want to.
The reality is hardware is not getting the steep discounts that it previously use to, because of inflation is getting to another all time high, there’s significantly more demand across ALL tech industries not just gaming (gaming, automotive, aviation, phone, PC, AI, mining, and much more….), and companies are starting to realize that people are willing to pay more when they see eBay inflation for Day 1 buyers be 2x as much as their asking price and staying that way for months.
The base PS5 is a custom laptop version of the RX 6700XT (6700m), and desktop GPU that’s still selling for around $300 new to this day. So you’re saying you can get at minimum a Zen 2 8-Core / 16-Thread CPU, 16GB of RAM, 1TB NVMe, MB, PSU, Case, Blu Ray Drive, and Controller for $200. My point exactly.
And that’s exactly why the consoles are having a harder time getting price cuts this generation. Yes Sony is profiting off the hardware currently which EVERY BUSINESS aims to do, but they’re not making $200 – $300 profit per console sold.
Moving on to the PS5 Pro. There’s no GPU available that matches the PS5 since RDNA 4 doesn’t get fully announced until CES, meaning the closest GPU is a laptop GPU based on the desktop RX 7800XT, a $500. So again, you’re saying you can get at minimum a Zen 2 8-Core / 16-Thread CPU, 16GB of RAM, 2TB NVMe, MB, PSU, Case, and Controller for $200. My point exactly.
These consoles are priced accordingly based on what the market price demands of the components (Xbox included). The only console that is overpriced based on their components are the Nintendo Switch consoles with the docks (and technically the 2TB Series X).