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This is BULLSHIT. SONY KNEW
| https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK | 11/25/25 |
| https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK | 11/25/25 |
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Date: November 25th, 2025 10:00 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Korean firms never fix prices without including their Japanese partners in the conversation, and Sony and Samsung have yuge tie-ups.
"According to reliable hardware leaker Moore’s Law Is Dead, some quick thinking from Sony should prevent the PS5 from being impacted by impending RAM shortages.
The YouTuber claims the Japanese company gobbled up a large supply of GDDR6 RAM while prices were low, shielding it from potential scarcity.
Microsoft, apparently, was not as smart, and has allegedly started to warn partners that further Xbox Series X|S price hikes are coming. The machine is already by far the most expensive on the market, and the Redmond firm has not announced any discounts for Black Friday yet." |
Date: November 25th, 2025 11:21 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Look, there are a lot of plausible factors that we've already highlighted that could cause pressure on pricing, but there's a lot of room for skepticism, too. I'm not saying that all of these reasons given aren't the cause for the recent price boom, but what I am saying is that it wouldn't be the first time that price-fixing occurred in the memory industry. The DRAM market, being dominated by three main players, has crossed the line into illegal, price-fixing cartels. In the early 2000s, multiple memory manufacturers pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix DRAM prices between 1998 and 2002, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in fines given out to a few manufacturers, including the big three that survive to this day: SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron. More recently, during the big DRAM price run-up in the middle of 2016 and the start of 2018 (where prices nearly tripled in a year and a half), a class-action lawsuit accused the big three of colluding to restrict supply in order to inflate prices. That more recent class action lawsuit was brought by the same firm that brought the original class action suit in the early 2000s against those same companies, which coincided with the U.S. Department of Justice investigation. While that second lawsuit didn't hold up in court (and failed in appeal), that ongoing suspicion exists for a reason.
https://www.xda-developers.com/dram-prices-spiking-dont-trust-industry-reasons/ |