Source: Slashdot: Hardware
Sony’s aggressive pricing strategy signals that hardware manufacturers now believe they can absorb and pass along cost pressures directly to consumers rather than compress margins—a fundamental shift from the 2010s playbook that suggests either genuine input cost desperation or calculated bet that gaming’s installed base is too locked into their ecosystem to price-shop. This erosion of price stability in flagship consumer tech categories will likely accelerate similar moves across premium consumer durables, effectively ending the “console wars” as a volume game and cementing them as margin-extraction platforms.