Meta blames RAM shortage for $100 Quest 3 price hike
…Those are increases of $50 for both Quest 3S models and $100 for the Quest 3. Refurbished units will be getting a price hike, too. The refurbished 128GB and 256GB Quest…
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Framework has good news and bad news
…The company says that it has “gotten signals that CPU pricing will be increasing soon,” so it expects that it will have to “adjust the overall system price on Framework Laptop 13…
Sony ups its new A7R VI to 66.8 megapixels and jumps the price to $4,500
…But the price increase over the A7R V’s original debut price isn’t far off from the outright price jump Sony’s flagship A1 II and A9 III bodies received last…
Xbox Game Pass ‘has become too expensive,’ says Microsoft’s new gaming chief in leaked memo
…The company tried to justify the price hike with a variety of upgrades across all of its Xbox Game Pass tiers, but the cost increase has clearly taken its toll on Game…
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The future of game consoles is looking bleak
…Increasing costs is typically not a way to increase sales. Just look at Sony: The company sold only 1.5 million PS5s over the last fiscal year, a whopping 46 percent drop…
With GTA looming, consoles are getting expensive at the worst possible time
…Both are up hundreds of dollars compared to their launch prices. Those are steep increases, and they go against the conventional wisdom that buying a console at launch is a bad idea…
Meta lost 20 million users last quarter
…This increased spending is driven by expectations for higher component pricing and, “to a lesser extent,” additional costs for future data center capacity. This is a course correction, according to Meta’s…
Razer’s Blade 18 is getting a $500 price hike and a new Intel chip
…That starting config is $500 more than the 2025 model with the same GPU, and it comes a year after the 2025 Blade 18 got a price increase before even going on…
Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is officially leaving the company
…During this quarter, Netflix reported revenue of $12.25 billion, marking a 16.2 percent year-over-year increase. The streaming giant says the jump was driven by “membership growth, higher pricing…
Microsoft reports sinking Xbox revenue as its cloud business climbs
…The company says Microsoft 365 consumer cloud revenue increased 33 percent during this quarter, while its commercial segment increased 19 percent. Meanwhile, revenue earned by Microsoft’s Windows OEM and devices business…