Why don't consoles get discounted anymore?

Literally every other gen for the past four decades was 50% off or more at this point in their lifespan

They sell the refurbished ones for lower cost, you don't get a brand new one on sale anymore.

Bundles have replaced discounts.

>>715380190 (OP)
gaming has gone too mainstream and companies realized whales and retards will pay for anything no matter how high the cost

>>715380190 (OP)
$49 in 2002 is equivalent to $872.39 today retard

>>715380190 (OP)
Even back then: '$49.99' was not a 'discount', that was a literal: "this shit aint selling, time for a file sale' type of sale.

>>715380190 (OP)
Damn $50 for a foreman grill ain't bad

>>715380190 (OP)
I remember when GameStop was trying to sell the last stock they had for GameCubes in like 2010 maybe 2011 and you could buy one for like 20 bucks. Crazy how much times have changed

>>715380190 (OP)
The short answer is it doesn't cost less to manufacture. Previous gens there were a bunch of things that could happen:
>old node gets discounts
>die shrink processor and make 2x per wafer
>PCB simplification
>cooling cost reduction
The cost per wafer for 7nm has like a 10% reduction where old gens could have 50% by now. Die shrinks dont save any money because if the newer gens can make 2x more per wafer, they cost like 1.9x as much. The PCB released is already simplified and the cooling is as cheap as they can make it to start. They could save maybe $50 if they tried.

It may even cost more. The supply chain is still fucked up from COVID in weird ways.

>gamecubes where so disliked that they didn't bother puting it behind glass and didn't care if niggers shoplifted them
lol

>>715381681
America was whiter twenty years ago

jay double oos

>>715381512
now they prefer to destroy extras, manufacture a new model, and keep prices artificially high forever

>in 2000, the bestselling console worldwide was Sony's $99 PSone, a noteworthy feat because it outsold its own successor, the PlayStation 2, the first year on the market
Neat

>>715381789
I also chalk this up to why modern consoles are so shit and controllers are also shit in quality. It's crazy how most consoles in the PS2 generation and earlier still work meanwhile PS4 and PS5 have tons of performance issues and dozens of users guides to try and fix problems.

They seriously expect you to just go out and buy a new console every 3 or 4 years

>>715381909
twisted metal small brawl released on the ps1 months after twisted metal black, and those are first party games, it's so weird

>>715380190 (OP)
>Why don't consoles get discounted anymore?
Because they keep selling like hot cakes or sell so few units they increase the price.
Back in the day these corporations ought to sell consoles so they could reap the 30% license fee on games, but now since they have so many paypigs paying up for shit like online and thousands mtx, they really don't need to sell consoles anymore, to then sell games.
Also, back in the gamecube era, people couldn't afford a 1000 euros console, while nowadays the western economy is better, so they think they can scam people for ever more expensive consoles and games, while they don't see they're quite literally killing their own business.

>Switch 2 came out over a month ago
>People still selling 2nd-hand Switch 1 for $200
assholes

>>715380190 (OP)
Every other gen actually felt like a huge step up in literally every other past decade other than the current one. Nowadays, having the old console means you'll just get an update to give it most of the features and even UI of the new console, and it even means you'll still be able to play a majority of newer games, just at a lower resolution and FPS.
Just look at any of the modern PS4/PS5 or Xbone/Series games that have two versions for each console - the "old" ones really usually look almost the same aside from minor things like shadows and meme tracing being turned down or off.

>>715386210
for the sake of the '>hurr your picrel is two gens apart' crowd here's Gran Turismo 2 and 3, released two years apart on the PS1 and PS2 respectively

>>715380190 (OP)
relatively large silicon computer chips are being pulled into about 10 different industries that dwarf videogames at this point. Phones, AIshit, servershit, etc etc

>>715381681
It was better times back them. Shoplifting was rarer, the economy wasn't in the shitter, and a at the time popular war just kicked off to put America back in the spotlight.

>>715386384
You’re full of shit faggot. Theft is way down in current year vs 2001-2005.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191211/reported-larceny-cases-in-the-us-since-1990/

>>715386754
That just means they stopped reporting it

>>715387449
Oh yeah I’m sure it was the Jews covering up crime statistics right? You have any proof for your claims or are you just going to continue to spout off bullshit with no data to support your argument?

>>715380190 (OP)
Consoles realized their consumers are retards and there's basically no competition left for playstation as a home console or the switch as a portable console. All the remaining dumbasses are stuck with it because they're too stupid to use a PC.