alt Hacker NewsWhen did a PS5 become a unit of cost? For reference seems to be about 0.002 London buses
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Give it a month or two and it might be cheaper to get the bus.
Approximately the instant when a single component (RAM) of a comparable product (Gaming PC) became more expensive than the entirety of said product.
I wonder what you'd think if bus tires exploded in price and started costing .25 London busses per tire.
It's a more stable unit than US dollars.
> When did a PS5 become a unit of cost? For reference seems to be about 0.002 London buses
Gaming consoles are something people buy. Any parent or gamer has an idea what they cost.
People do not buy London Buses themself
Seems like an American thing. We measure distances in football fields and volumes in olympic pools, seems we now measure money in PS5s. It tracks...
It think it's intentionally obtuse while being tangentionally related simply to generate engagement
The tech equivalent to the Big Mac index? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
I think it's intended as a comparison of cost when building a gaming-capable computer vs. a console of somewhat equivalent power.
It used to be a general rule of thumb that you could build a computer of roughly equivalent power for the cost of a game console, or a little more — now the memory costs more than the whole console.