@metalbaofu: Well that is even worse then.
@bigsocrates:By being complacent about it now you are basically letting them know that you're ok with this becoming a pattern, because you're ok with it now. You are seriously perfectly fine with paying more with no justification apart from "we want to make more money from this" - that is an absolutely ok reason to you, as a consumer?
As far as I can tell the real justification is "We're the market leader, so why should we price lower than Xbox?" Also it appears that they might be running into cost problems getting games, based on the recent lineup. It's also probably partially an inflation adjustment, but going to $55 doesn't make sense when Xbox is at $60.
In a world where a lot of prices have gone completely ridiculous (like epipens for example, or cable costs) I find it hard to get too angry over a very modest price increase after 6 years. Now if this continues I'll sing a different tune, but gamers have a tendency to get super outraged over every small increase in price, even if it's necessary. I remember when XBLA games went from $5 to $10 and then to $15. It was because the games were getting bigger and more expensive to make and the old prices just weren't profitable. Yet gamers were furious.
Is all you want better messaging? If Sony said "We're increasing the price because of inflation and because we're going to increase spending on our network infrastructure" would you be happy? I agree that some kind of messaging would be useful, but then they run the risk of people screaming bloody murder the next time there is an issue with PSN because of that messaging.
I'm no huge Sony supporter. I think their customer service is terrible, and I think they handled the giant PSN outage of 2011 very badly, but this is one small price increase. I don't want to extrapolate from a single data point. As I said, if price increases continue with no improvement of services, then I'll be happy to join everyone else in outrage.
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