This is not it my dude...

Let's go. What the hell happened to PlayStation overnight? How the hell did your one PlayStation 5 turn into almost a second PlayStation 5 if you bought a used one at launch? A good question. So, yeah, let me pull it up. Important price update for the PS5 and the PlayStation Portal. We're going to scroll down and get an image. You know, we had a good week going for us after that [ __ ] ass last week. We had a good week going for us. The base PS5 is $650. The PS5 digital goes up to $600. The PlayStation 5 Pro is now a $900 console. Has this [ __ ] officially entered Neo Geo status? Are we there? Are we or are we past that? Hold on a second. Let me look it up. What did a Neo Geo cost? The console itself was priced at a whopping 6 and $49 upon its release in the US. Woo! Only for the richest children compared to now. No, no, no. PlayStation, you're still clear. All right, it's bad. It's not looking good, but PlayStation, you're still clear. My dude, the Neo Geo was $1,600 when it came out. Oh my god, man. Either way, this sucks. I warned you about this uh 2 to 3 months ago, like around the beginning of the year. I I can't remember what it was, but there was some discussion that we had. I don't know if it made it into a video format where I was warning people that the PlayStation 5 Pro is not worth it yet. It could get better. It has. PSSR2 is legit very cool. I legit told Steve, "Steve, if you care about GTA, you need to go buy a PS5 Pro." The reason being, and this is outside of the inflation thing, the PlayStation 5 Pro was going to be a harder and harder to find system because they're not making nearly as many PS5 Pros as they are of regular PlayStations, digital or, you know, physical, whatever. There is a Nexus event that is happening at the end of 2026, and that is the launch of potentially the biggest video game of all time, Grand Theft Auto 6. With that being said, the game's not coming out on PC in the near future. So, if you want to play this game the best way possible, your PlayStation 5 Pro ain't going to be good for [ __ ] dude. I'm telling you, this system is not going to enhance any of the games you have, it will not do anything for it. I have one. I don't even I forget that I have it. Like, I legit forget that it is a PlayStation 5 Pro most of the time. However, it 100% is going to have a supported function on GTA 6. There's going to be a unique graphical setting for the PS5 Pro mode, and it's going to run better. It's going to run either at 60 fps or something. It's going to look better if you don't take advantage of this moment right now. This was at the beginning of the year to go get yourself a PS5 Pro, a used one, whatever. They are going to become harder to find because of GTA 6 and it being the best way to play GTA 6. And they are also likely going to go up in price because obvious reasons. So, you know what he did? He went out and bought one and got one used. Here's the crazy part. This system is $900 or is about to become $900 uh starting April 2nd. Okay, it is going to sell out. Maybe not now, maybe not like in a couple of months, but as we get closer to Grand Theft Auto, this [ __ ] is going to become worth way more in terms of the resale market and [ __ ] like that. This is an insane amount of money. But because Grand Theft Auto is the biggest game and people cannot play it any better than a PlayStation 5 Pro, this is the game that people wait 10 years because they buy one game every 10 years and they just play that game. That's why BS5 Pro is about to become worth its weight and gold. I bought this for what,700 750 when it came out for specifically FF7? Jesus Christ, that seems cheap by comparison now. This [ __ ] sucks. Oh my god. It was worth starting all those wars. It was worth investing into AI. It was worth tariffing everything. Everything is so much better now because now the consoles are more expensive, too. It was worth it. I feel great, dude. It's even hitting everywhere else a [ __ ] ton. like an absolute astronomical [ __ ] ton. The PlayStation Portal is also going up to 250. So, it's basically the price of a PS3 adjusted for inflation. Yeah, you're kind of right because 599. Here is what I absolutely hate about this. Video games as a medium is not a rich man's sport. PC gaming is. PC gaming has always been the upper echelon. If you really want to squeeze your [ __ ] out of this, if you really want to get the most out of it, you can spend so much goddamn money optimizing the top 5% of PC gaming performance. It's always been that way. So, if you want to drop four to five grand on an insane PC to get better visuals, yeah, you know what? You could do that and feel pretty cozy at least for like half a decade. However, this isn't how the majority of people engage with this medium historically. The best, most, widests selling consoles are usually the ones that come out at a cheaper price range because people are looking for entertainment that is going to last for a long time and is going to provide that experience at something that is not like a premium value, a super expensive premium value. The fact that every aspect of this industry is getting so much more expensive, including now console prices, just means that the average person that enjoys this stuff that looks forward to a game will just not be able to enjoy it in the same way. And I think that is complete trash. This is exactly why the PlayStation 4 still has one of the largest active user bases of a previous generation console ever. There are way more people sticking around with their PS4 and logging into PSN daily where we can see the numbers that it's like, "Holy crap, we're never getting rid of this console generation, dude." Unless there's a game that you really love and it's specifically on a PlayStation 5. If you're out there like fence sitting and you've been waiting on a PS5 and you're like, "Hey, man, maybe." And you've had a PS4, I'm telling you right now, unless you got the fattest OLED or some [ __ ] or some real crazy big 4K TV, your PlayStation 4 is just fine. What I'm trying to say is that I hate this because I hate the idea of people without equity being locked out of entertainment. If you don't have as much money, you get you can't buy as many games. That makes sense. If you don't have as much money, you can't go out to see as many movies. You know, this is the way it's always been. It bugs the [ __ ] out of me that just because of a position of equity where you cannot afford the price point of this [ __ ] that we are now limiting a whole bunch of people. This is now a pristine, high quality gaming experience that is only for p people that have golden wallets and [ __ ] I [ __ ] hate it. Can I afford it? I can. This [ __ ] is my job. But it doesn't change the fact that that was also my [ __ ] ass for like 25 years of my life doing whatever I could to buy the games that I wanted with, you know, whatever I had in my pocket. So, I think it sucks and we knew it was coming. I don't have any like silver lining for this whole situation. I don't have anything, man. Like, I really don't. It feels like video games are becoming Las Vegas. Vegas is in decline in terms of its overall attendance, but the people that are whales that spend a lot of money in Vegas are still showing up to spend just as much money in Vegas, even more money. So, actually, Vegas on paper is doing fine. The same [ __ ] for PlayStation. It's the same thing for games because things are just getting way more expensive. Things are becoming like higher premiums. They are just pricing themselves out of what is the average person because they're making so much more money off of the people that have money, which is just trash. I hate this. I hate when things that are a hobby that is enjoyed by everybody is no longer allowed to be enjoyed by everybody because it's expensive. Kind of bugs me about like Pokémon cards and stuff like that where I've had friends that have been really into that and they just had to stop because it became just toxic, dude. They could not keep up with this [ __ ] and they could not afford to be a part of it anymore. Here we are in the year 2026 and we're close to reliving the rich kid neighbor that has a PlayStation 5 Pro aka a Neo Geo sitting in his bedroom and we're like, "Holy hell, nobody could afford this. How could you afford this? This is insane." We're actually reliving that all over again now. And they never play it. Yeah, they never play it. Heat. Heat.