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3 articles covering "Gaming Hardware"
Sony's second PlayStation 5 price increase in under a year took effect on April 2, pushing the PS5 Pro to $900 and the standard console to $650 as AI-driven memory demand and trade tariffs compress margins across the gaming hardware industry.
Both GPU makers are shifting mainstream production to 8 GB models as DRAM prices surge 180 percent, MSI calls 2026 its hardest year since founding, and IDC warns the sub-$500 PC market may vanish by 2028.
AMD's first RDNA 4 graphics cards, the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, launched on March 6 at $549 and $599 with competitive rasterization performance, a machine-learning-powered FSR 4 upscaler, and 16 GB of VRAM — but sold out within hours as AMD described demand as 'unprecedented'.