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▲ 830 r/gaming

The surge in AI demand has led to a squeeze on chip production capacity, resulting in severe shortages and price increases for memory and central processing units (CPUs). Sales of branded notebook and desktop (DT) products have declined, and the PC DIY market is in dire straits. PC supply chain sources revealed that the four major Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers have all lowered their 2026 shipment targets set at the end of 2025, and almost all of them have experienced a "collapse."

The situation is worse than during previous financial crises and the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not only due to shortages and price increases of the two key components, memory and CPU, but also because of reports that NVIDIA GPU updates and upgrades have slowed down, leading to a significant decrease in gamers' willingness to purchase.

Among them, ASUS is facing its first battle to defend its 10 million motherboard units, while MSI and Gigabyte are confirmed to have fallen below the 10 million unit mark, a year-on-year decrease of about 25%, and ASRock's decline is estimated to exceed 30%.

The shortage of memory and CPUs has directly impacted consumer demand. Multiple shipment forecasts warn that the global PC market, which had just begun to recover, will once again enter a recession in 2026.

u/FernandoRocker — 7 days ago
▲ 0 r/consoles

Based on the previous thread called A Comparison of Prices Across All Major Gaming Consoles, I have created this thread to compare the price of the games.

https://www.reddit.com/r/consoles/comments/1t4cu4r/a_comparison_of_prices_across_all_major_gaming/

I have seen too many comments saying that prices on the Switch are never on sale, but even though it is somewhat true for first party games, third party games on Nintendo platforms have the same amount of sales (both frequency and price) as other platforms.

There's easy ways to check this, but Deku Deals is my favorite website for this. In there you can see games on sales with charts, historical price lows, and some other details..

Now, there are thousand of games and I'm currently in my lunch hour, so I grabbed some of the most popular games available across all 3 main platforms. But please feel to browse the website and see it for yourself.

The list below includes the name of the game, the platform, and the lowest price registered in their respective digital storefronts.

Hades

  • Xbox X|S/Xbox One: $9.99
  • Switch: $6.24
  • PS4: $6.24
  • PS5: $6.24

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/hades?platform=all

Octopath Traveler

  • Switch:$23.99
  • Xbox One: $23.99
  • PS5/PS4: $23.99

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/octopath-traveler?platform=all

Octopath Traveler II

  • Switch: $23.99
  • Xbox X|S/Xbox One: $23.99
  • PS4: $23.99
  • PS5: $23.99

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/octopath-traveler-ii-switch?platform=all

Triangle Strategy

  • Switch: $23.99
  • Xbox X|S: $23.99
  • PS5: $23.99

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/triangle-strategy

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

  • PS4: $9.99
  • Switch: $7.99
  • Xbox X|S/Xbox One: $9.99

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/ni-no-kuni-wrath-of-the-white-witch?platform=all

Ender Lilies

  • Switch: $9.99
  • Xbox X|S/Xbox One: $9.99
  • PS4: $9.99

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/ender-lilies-quietus-of-the-knights

Mega Man 11

  • PS4: $4.49
  • Switch: $4.49
  • Xbox One: $4.49

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/mega-man-11?platform=all

Cronos: The New Dawn

  • PS5: $41.99
  • Switch 2: $41.99
  • Xbox X|S: $41.99

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/cronos-the-new-dawn?platform=all

BioShock: The Collection

  • PS4: $9.99
  • Xbox One: $9.99
  • Switch: $9.99

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/bioshock-the-collection?platform=all

Inside

  • Switch: $1.99
  • Xbox One: $1.99
  • PS4 $1.99

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/inside?platform=all

No Man's Sky

  • PS5: $23.99
  • Switch: $23.99
  • PS4: $29.99
  • Switch 2: $23.99
  • Xbox X|S/Xbox One: $19.93

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/no-mans-sky?platform=all

Red Dead Redemption

  • PS4: $24.99
  • Switch: $24.99
  • PS5: $24.99
  • Switch 2: $24.99
  • Xbox X|S: $24.99

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/red-dead-redemption?platform=all

u/FernandoRocker — 10 days ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 6.5k r/consoles+1 crossposts

>At that time, you know.. just in the Americas, I was selling 10 million DS' a year, we're driving a lot of revenue. We had a lot of scale. And, at the time, Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space. Amazon's mentality back then is they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower than Wal-Mart. And one of their executives called me.. well it was a conversation that got to me after it had progressed through all of the levels of my sales organization, and essentially what Amazon wanted is they wanted an obscene amount of support, financial support, so they could have the lowest price and beat Wal-Mart. I literally said to the executive: "you know that's illegal, right? I can't do that." You know you get silence on the other end "but this is what I want." Literally we stopped selling to Amazon, and it's because I wasn't going to do something illegal. I wasn't going to do something that would put at risk the relationship we have with other retailers. But it also set the stage to say, look, you're not going to push me around. This is the way we do business. And so that's how over time you build respect.

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u/FernandoRocker — 13 days ago
▲ 193 r/PS5

Refurbished slim disc ($549.99, previously $449.99): https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-console-model-group-slim

Refurbished slim digital ($499.99, previously $399.99): https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-digital-edition-console-model-group-slim

Refurbished OG 'Phat' disc PS5 (still available for $399.99): https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-console

Also, that Fortnite holiday bundle went out of stock, so no more $399 price for a new slim PS5.

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u/FernandoRocker — 14 days ago
▲ 17 r/consoles

Refurbished slim disc ($549.99, previously $449.99): https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-console-model-group-slim

Refurbished slim digital ($499.99, previously $399.99): https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-digital-edition-console-model-group-slim

Refurbished OG 'Phat' disc PS5 (still available for $399.99): https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-console

Also, that Fortnite holiday bundle went out of stock, so no more $399 price for a new slim PS5.

reddit.com
u/FernandoRocker — 14 days ago
▲ 625 r/gaming

Refurbished slim disc ($549.99, previously $449.99): https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-console-model-group-slim

Refurbished slim digital ($499.99, previously $399.99): https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-digital-edition-console-model-group-slim

Refurbished OG 'Phat' disc PS5 (still available for $399.99): https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/certified-refurbished-playstation5-console

Also, that Fortnite holiday bundle went out of stock, so no more $399 price for a new slim PS5.

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u/FernandoRocker — 14 days ago
▲ 1 r/consoles

Microsoft Overview

  • Revenue was $82.9 billion and increased 18% (up 15% in constant currency)
  • Operating income was $38.4 billion and increased 20% (up 16% in constant currency)
  • Net income was $31.8 billion and increased 23% on a GAAP basis, and increased 20% (up 18% in constant currency) on a non-GAAP basis
  • Diluted earnings per share was $4.27 and increased 23% on a GAAP basis, and increased 21% (up 18% in constant currency) on a non-GAAP basis
  • Non-GAAP results exclude the impact from investments in OpenAI, explained in the Non-GAAP Definition section below

Xbox Guidance for this quarter was:

  • Content & Services: decline of 4 to 6% due to strong content prior year, offset by increase in Game Pass
  • Hardware: decline

Actual results are:

  • Content & Services: -5%
  • Hardware: -33%
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u/FernandoRocker — 15 days ago