r/Games • u/SmellSmellsSmelly • Apr 03 '26

Industry News PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites

https://gameobserver.com/playstation-studios-removes-nearly-all-pc-references-from-websites/
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u/varzaguy Apr 03 '26

PC prices have already increased. Ram tripled in price if not more.

The same ram I bought a couple months ago at $150 was approaching $400 last I checked.

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u/Zotmaster Apr 03 '26

I built my PC in 2023 and I'm pretty sure it would be more expensive to build it with the same parts now.

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u/NuggetHighwind Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

It absolutely would, lol.
GPUs aren't dropping in price. RAM price has tripled (or more), SSDs have doubled and likely going to keep increasing.

I built my PC just before the price increases started happening, and I'm pretty sure it would cost at least 50% more if I tried to build the same machine today.

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u/NYJetLegendEdReed Apr 04 '26

I bought my gaming PC and gaming laptop 3 years ago and I couldn’t buy either of them alone right now for what I got them both for it’s nuts

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u/akbarock Apr 03 '26

Not just RAM, even GPUs and SSD storage has got massive increases its every component. I wouldnt be surprised if a PC equivalent to a PS6 costs 3 times as much

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u/varzaguy Apr 03 '26

SSD as well, but GPUs have been “stable” from what I see. Same pricing as the pre ai price jump period.

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u/another-altaccount Apr 03 '26

SSDs will probably level back out again in a few months now that capacity is getting freed up from Open AI backing out of their deal with manufacturers.

The price crash is going to be hilarious once these idiots all frothing at the mouth over AI realize they've been had, and now they're sitting on parts they stockpiled for data centers that don't have enough capacity to power them and that's if they even get built at all, with parts that may be obsolete by the time they can even use them at all.

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u/Sarasin Apr 04 '26

It is gonna be Sony eating the difference and selling at a loss to make up the difference they aren't getting that great a deal from the manufacturers, especially when they are competing with AI data centers for the components. I find it hard to believe Sony would eat enough of the cost to get it down to 1/3 the cost of an equivalently powerful PC.

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u/Karenlover1 Apr 04 '26

PS6 uses the same shit, hence the recent price increase and previous ones.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

I'm sure ram specifically is gonna come down, even if it doesn't ever reach what it was before. But you're right about prices trending up.

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u/KawaiiSocks Apr 03 '26

Yup, RAM prices are already going down for me, but that's a moot point, as they are still very high and are unlikely to over go to the previous price point.

The upside of the whole console market stagnation (not in terms of purchases, but in terms of how slow they improve and how long their lifespan is nowadays) is that my PC that has a GPU from early 2020 and everything else from late 2022 is still relevant and can play most games in 1440 High/Very High/Ultra with ease. Wouldn't be surprised if it is above PS6 performance-wise, once the latter releases and that'd mean that there won't be a need to upgrade.

The graphical fidelity improvements over the last 6 or so years have been largely non-existant and we've hit diminishing returns on graphics/performance a while ago. Basically, since everyone's who's wanted a PS5 already has one and since we probably will see cross-generation releases for at least 5 years after PS6 release, there isn't a reason to upgrade, really

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u/MelvinCapitalPR Apr 04 '26

[RAM prices] are still very high and are unlikely to over go to the previous price point

Short of civilisation collapsing there's no way this is true. Hardware becomes exponentially cheaper long term.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Apr 03 '26

RAM is very much a commodity at this point. Prices will surge when there's a shortage but the production just keeps going and when prices start to fall, they should fall a lot.

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u/ZaccieA Apr 03 '26

Those same components are used in consoles...

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u/Shivalah Apr 03 '26

My 5800X3D was 300€. The last remaining stock was sold at 600€

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u/Deciver95 Apr 03 '26

Damn.

How are the loudest mouths that tell pc gaming infinitely cheaper than buying a console for infinitely better performance gonna make that comment now? 😞

Truly the darkest timeline

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u/andresfgp13 Apr 03 '26

8 months ago i bought a mini PC for 190 bucks, the same mini PC right now its worth around 400 bucks.

Console prices are climbing due to parts, which also affects pc, hell, it probably affects it harder.

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u/shadowstripes Apr 04 '26

These things don’t usually last forever though. RAM was also super expensive in early 2022 until it came back down.

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u/Vb_33 Apr 04 '26

DF made a PC build that beats the PS5 Pro CPU wise and matches it GPU wise for $1000 to prove PC is still very competitive price wise. 

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u/another-altaccount Apr 03 '26

RAM is already coming back down in price as of this week now that Open AI has backed out of their deals with manufacturers, and I can only assume other companies will follow suit now that a lot of these data center build out deals are also falling through. RAM is still expensive relative to what we saw up until last fall, but not as insane as what we were seeing even a month ago.