Reality as I said will force them. Or they will follow UbisoftAverage big publisher:
At first they could do that BUT if this continue a few more years or even a decade they will be forced to change their tune.
Death of course.
If ps5 is going up by that much steam machine is going up aswell possibly even higher. Valve will want a profit on there machine, whilst Sony will still subsidise.Does Sony sit on a years worth of stock, do we know?
Its great that they're currently blitzing through the stock they put into retailers at a super low black Friday price but it is going to be interesting to see how they weather this.
The ps5 might have to go up by 100 to 200 dollars on its MSRP minimum and that's just right now. If it continues to get worse....
I am also Sony Corp's number 1 fan.
Well, yeah. Everythings going up. I cant see how it wont. Unless you are sat on like 12 months of stock minimum. And then why wouldnt you put the prices up and make more profit?
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Higher prices, less memory. Problem is solved
Carmack said once the he liked the old days because the hardware limitations forced them to be more creative with their programming. Maybe something like this will indeed make a comback because better hardware will be so expensive that it would be litereally pointless to make something for it. So in order to stand out graphically devs will have to get more creative again and not just push boundaries and then have customers buy new hardware to keep up with it.Average big publisher:
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Was this confirmed by Steam or are you basing this off a rumor?
Definitly !
I mean, I would like for that to happen. If RAM becomes this scarce then HW design will change and coders will have to adapt.
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Well I guess they bought up stock of memory chips and other stuff ahead of time according to rumors.Does Sony sit on a years worth of stock, do we know?
Its great that they're currently blitzing through the stock they put into retailers at a super low black Friday price but it is going to be interesting to see how they weather this.
The ps5 might have to go up by 100 to 200 dollars on its MSRP minimum and that's just right now. If it continues to get worse....
We've been saying that since 2017
For Sony the main profit is from 30% cut and PSN. The more people they get into ecosystem the more cash they can extract. Hardware profit is incidental really, they just don't want to take a big hit on subsidies.
MS is part of the issue on the datacenter side, lol. Satya is all in on AI.
I dont think you understand. You probably will by the time the new year comes around though. CES sure is going to be interesting, thats for sure.
The difference is there's deals in place between these brands. It's not like they can increase prices to Sony or Nintendo the same way they increase prices to the consumer. So even if Sony and Nintendo increase their prices, it's never going to be the same as buying a GPU for PC.
It really depends how long the contract was for and how it was structured. The earlier rumors were that Sony had price locked in for Q1 2026 I think.
Sony had RAM enough for the entire fiscal year. What i meant is even if they increase their prices they can't do like 200% price increases for RAM of GPUs for consoles like that unless those contracts suck big time lol.
Yep, fiscal year so Q1. Beyond that who the hell knows, they could be screwed or it would be a small bump. We will find out soon enough.
It's cute that you think purchasing RAM on Amazon means you buy the RAM directly. No, you buy the RAM from a company like Kingston Technology that sells roughly 9 billion dollars worth of DRAM a year. Literally tens of millions of RAM sticks are sold by them. They are a far larger customer of DRAM than Sony would be for the PS5. So, you know, basic economics?
it's not really console warring at this point, but Console gamers are more shielded by it at least because they have large ass corporations ready to shield them from the massive volatility of the market. RAM prices soaring by 3x is Sony's problem for now and they can't afford to pass it down to the consumer in a market that's historically prided itself on cheap and easy access to gaming.
They are shielded to an extent. Sony has RAM they are sitting on but once that inventory has depleted they will have to deal with the higher costs. Judging by how they have handled the pricing of the PS5 so far (including tariffs) they would probably pass that onto the consumer. Now it won't be a massive jump just yet, likely on the order of 10% sometime next year, the same as AMD GPUs are expected to increase. GDDR6 pricing hasn't increased as much, but we have no idea how bad it might get in 2026. Worst case scenario even 10% might not be enough.
Oh please. You're literally one of the largest warriors on this site. This post is just more evidence of that. "believe their lies anymore", what are you, twelve?
Either that or heavily rely on upscalers like fsr and DLSS along with framegen.
They're because they don't want to have to know/understand anything about hardware.
I'm not sure what happened on the AMD side as those prices were far worse and were constantly far over MSRP.
