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by vmception 1577 days ago
correct, the market has been saying for multiple years that the MSRP is wrong, for anything with GPU accelerate compute time.
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We are basically seeing self imposed price controls and everyone knows that price ceilings cause shortages.
Yeah, go explain that to a 40 year old Mom or Dad, who are buying one for their 10-15 year old child to play a video game.
The console is worth around $750, this would match the inflation adjusted price of home entrainment consoles for the last 40 years

If its out of the budget they’ll have to do something else, that doesn’t even need to be explained