Being an early adopter pays off for once! Call me cynical but this increase just ahead of what i expect to be a sizeable drop of holiday availability?
At the end of the day, they must have highly paid analysts costing this out, but to everyone who bought from a scalper this is what happens. If people buy a product at inflated prices, then the company will eventually charge those markups, because why not?
Be interesting to see if this has a domino effect of smaller increases as well for the other console manufacturers. I do think this is missing the mark though, the console market is not a premium market, that's PC. A console has always been a relatively expensive one time purchase for a lot of families
but affordable. Pushing the hardware price up, about to drop what we all expect to be an expensive step up in VR, the price raise on games is kind of pushing the package or ecosystem into unaffordable for core markets imo.
For the likes of us on this forum, it won't really be an issue. Most of us seem to have steady jobs, good management of personal finance etc. probably a lot of us are considering the PSVR2 in all honesty. But equally even we are baulking at some of these things, families from the backgrounds a lot of us came from are just not going to buy in. I know there are competing strategies out there and Sony have committed to local device, high production titles but pushing that console experience into a premium cohort of consumers is not the right move imo. The timing is also really off coming up to holiday. Waiting until after New Year would have been better.