• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    If you think $700 is bad, it’s £700 in the UK… which is $913. 🤢

    Also:

    • median household income, UK (2022): £32,400 ($42,265)

    • median household income, USA (2022): $74,580

    A PS5 Pro is 26% of the typical UK household monthly income.

    A PS5 Pro is 11% of the typical US household monthly income.

    The US pricing is bad. The UK pricing is absolutely insane.

    The OLED Deck starts at £479. Still a lot but not as egregious. The LCD Deck is currently £262 ($344), which is pretty great.

    • drathvedro@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 months ago

      If you think 26% is bad, in Russia it’s going to be priced at around ₽80-100k(~$883, VAT included), but the median monthly salary is ₽43.500 - $480… That’s well over 100% median household income given that over 38% families only have a single parent. And I’m pretty sure that’s not even the worst out there, think like Argentina has an extortionate import tax or something?

      • kudos@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        It varies state by state, some like Oregon have 0% tax, but most will be around 13% 6-8% or so iirc.

        • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          how does this work if you live close to another state? As in if you live in a state with sales tax but down the road is a state without sales tax- why ever shop in your state?

          • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
            1·
            2 months ago

            As in if you live in a state with sales tax but down the road is a state without sales tax- why ever shop in your state?

            Mostly the states are quite big, so it’s not worth the trouble. But along various state borders, it distorts the shopping experience in odd ways.

            I’ve been to towns that are missing common retailers entirely, because everyone drives to the next town over (in another state), to avoid a tax.

            We also have a rich history of driving across state lines to purchase stuff that’s illegal in our own state. It’s also illegal to bring it back, but the borders aren’t patrolled, so the only way to get caught is to have a traffic violation while doing it.

            Or so I’ve heard. I never break any laws, myself.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        So the most comparable console there is $456, and this is $700.

        That is bad.

        The PS5 Pro barely costs more to produce.

        $700 is bad. $913 is awful.

        Just because the PS3 (a console universally panned as being way too expensive) was similar doesn’t mean PS5 Pro pricing is alright.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
        1·
        2 months ago

        Cool chart.

        It really makes the point to me that the PS1 and PS2, when adjusted for inflation, and for relative compute power, were just such a fantastic deal.

        I was recovering from some serious console-purchase fatigue, when I bought my PS1 to replace my garage sale purchased Super NES. It was a big deal to me.

        I’ve paid PS5 prices (inflation adjusted) for a game system a few times (my first Switch and SteamDeck), but they’ve been a lot more mind blowing than what appears to be on offer today.

        Disclaimer: My favorite game is 8-bit, anyway.

      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        Charts like that are great, I love to see them. However, they need to have a year for the inflation-adjusted dollars else it’s nearly meaningless when referred back to.