To be a little fair but mostly just devil's advocate; everything's way more expensive now, and Sony have shit the bed enough recently that maybe it's not such a good idea to sell the consoles themselves as loss leaders anymore. Yeah it's way more expensive than people have become accustomed to, but so are PC builds these days, economy's fucked yo.

But even the devil wouldn't defend the bullshit nickle and diming of charging an extra 25 bucks just to be able to stand the console vertical. So Sony are still an obviously shitty company.