| ▲ | close04 4 hours ago | |
> Why is that a step too far? e.g. the PS5 price has increased like 25% and it's a 6 year old product now Precisely because it's a 6 year old product. The $499 the PS5 cost at launch in 2020 is equivalent to ~$650 in 2026 according to the inflation calculator [1]. Within a year it's harder to justify that. Nobody believes Apple is paying the price of the day for components instead of having them negotiated at least for the whole run of a model. > It feels much more acceptable to me on something like a Mac that's less than a year old (and going to last a long time + have good resale value). That sounds like it should be exactly the other way around? A PS5 from 2020 is substantially identical with a PS5 from 2026 except maybe for some minor HW optimizations. They are completely fungible. A Mac from this year will compete with a faster model next year, and another even faster model the year after that. | ||