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According to the official Twitter account, the rising PlayStation Plus prices are simply down to “ongoing market conditions” in the world of video games. When the prices of hardware in its consoles, handhelds, and peripherals it was easy enough to connect the dots and realise that Sony was suffering from the rising prices of components, just like Xbox and Nintendo — two other platform holders who have increased their prices in recent months. Vital things like RAM, SSDs, and more are being bought up in bulk by corporations, leaving consumer-grade products to suffer. Instead of tanking these cos

Like the majority of consumer electronics in the world right now, the Steam Machine has been impacted by major corporations buying up components like RAM and SSDs in bulk because they are needed to both construct and power vast AI datacentres. You’ve also got wars, tariffs, and other non-gaming, geopolitical circumstances drastically pushing up costs. Demand has never been so high, so supply chains are now fundamentally constrained, while prices of components required to build video game consoles or construct capable gaming PCs are higher than they’ve ever been. A number of companies have also

Valve initially revealing the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame at the same time felt like a co-ordinated strategy for three products intended to release simultaneously to usher in a new ecosystem, but the harsh reality of our technological landscape forced it to aggressively pivot. It sucks, and I have to wonder how the same circumstances are going to impact the next generation of PlayStation and Xbox. If I was Valve, I would move the planned launch back until prices stabilise and continue to iterate on upscaling technology using tools that already exist. PSSR 2 feels like magi