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PS5 Pro Pricing Discussion Thread
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Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Hopefully day one. It's still too cheap
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Hollowpoint5557
A Fucking Idiot
Maybe if they end up offering a 1TB model one day its possible.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Bernoulli
M2 slut
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
lol
They'll announce an INCREASE after 6 months. It's the Sony way.
They'll announce an INCREASE after 6 months. It's the Sony way.
March Climber
Member
What year is the Playstation 6 release year?
A few years after that.
A few years after that.
Oddvintagechap
Member
why does 599 sound perfect? 699 sounds like alot.
Gen.Grievous
Member
They won't. It's not like they make a big margin on it and can just lower the price. I see the normal PS5 dropping in price sooner. Much older hardware, more volume.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
Why? This is for their enthusiastic crowd. Most people will always buy a slim PS5. They knew what they were doing with this.
Sony has made it perfectly clear this gen that they would rather sacrifice some units and not sell these consoles at a loss. They are making some money on those Pro units for sure.
Sony has made it perfectly clear this gen that they would rather sacrifice some units and not sell these consoles at a loss. They are making some money on those Pro units for sure.
Unrivaledx88
Member
Cheap ppl gonna complain , Normal ps5 is more then enough to hold you off till ps6.
no need to chase power on a Machine and at the same time whine it’s to much money.
no need to chase power on a Machine and at the same time whine it’s to much money.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Never change, you beautiful thing, you.
Trab-Pu-Kcip
Member
They will make it dies instead of lower the price
TheAtomicPile
Member
Seems pretty unrealistic considering people were buying the original PS5 from scalpers for around this price for about 2 years.
Physiognomonics
Member
How smart of you to write about price change. Don't worry It's going to change, they are going to increase it.
Trogdor1123
Member
Not for like 2 years…. If then. The regular ps5 costs more now.
diffusionx
Gold Member
They're not going down in price, ever. It's a niche device, for a small subset of people. Either pay more or not.
ReyBrujo
Gold Member
They just increased the price in Japan, there's no way they will drop the price that quickly.
ap_puff
Member
To be honest even though I'm buying the pro they're not going to move a lot of units with that price. I doubt it'll sell half as well as the PS4 Pro.
Mephisto40
Member
A month before GTA6 releases
diffusionx
Gold Member
They don't want to move a lot of units.
PatientGamer
Gold Member
They should've released a 1TB version for about $50-$100 cheaper or whatever the price differential is.
Bernoulli
M2 slut
The japan price increase is for all electronic devices caused by the yen crash
Monkfish877
Member
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Tiago Rodrigues
Member
That's next year.
Vick
Gold Member
PS5 Pro, 2TB, at 699$ on one hand, Series X, 2TB, at 599$ on the other. Series X comes with a disc drive, PS5 Pro doesn't.
PS5 Pro is currently marketed as a 4k, 60fps, RT machine, twice as powerful as a base PS5.
Reading the first pages of this Thread, as well as the results of the "Sony can screw itself" option in this poll, left me wondering.. can "high end console gaming" ever be a thing?
Or should every machine within the Console realm be imperatively as affordable as possible to the masses?
Should the option of playing current generation games at 60fps with high resolution and pristine IQ, along with higher settings, remain an unattainable dream for every kind of individual willing to purchase a console, if it traslates into $699?
GAF, please help me understand.
cireza
Member
Except that you can buy Series X new at 500$€, even less.
Your picture is for the 2TB Galaxy limited edition.
Your picture is for the 2TB Galaxy limited edition.
Sounds like a challenge.
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Skifi28
Member
They should, it sounds hawt.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Twice as powerful???
Math is hard.
Math is hard.
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Mownoc
Member
The PS5 Pro is 2TB same as this Series X that's the point. It's $100 more to get PS5 Pro power instead of Series X Power. The pricing on the PS5 Pro is awful, but the pricing on the Xbox Series 2TB is also awful.
They should have gone with 1TB on the PS5 Pro and kept the price down. A 1TB PS5 Pro for the same price as the 2TB Series X would have been killer. As it is they're both terrible options lol.
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Kacho
Member
I think it's time to scale back on the graphics chasing like Nintendo did. Affordable hardware that prioritizes performance over graphical fidelity is the way forward.
cireza
Member
You can get a proper Xbox Series X with disc drive and 1 TB for less than 500$. This is the entry price.
Where is the PS5 Pro disc drive and 1 TB option already ? It doesn't exist. The entry price is 700$/800€.
SweetTooth
Gold Member
Hold on ... dude apple to apple is PS5 vs Series X
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
That’s the keyword here.
Did we go backwards? From 8K to 4K? Or do we all know marketing is full of shit? The RTX 3090 was also marketed as an 8K GPU.
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Senua
Gold Member
Keep trying to justify that price to yourself brother lol
Maths was never his strong suit
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Omnipunctual Godot
Gold Member
Anyone who has followed consoles for a while has probably noticed some cyclical trends in the industry. For example, Nintendo releasing blockbuster consoles one gen followed by far more modest sales the next. Or Sony releasing peripherals and sending them out to die. For whatever reason, these types of patterns seem to reoccur over and over again.
The PS5 Pro announcement in some ways reminded me of the PS3 announcement. And it echoes what we've seen recently with them chasing the GaaS unicorn to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Right now, I think Sony believes that people will buy whatever they put out just because it has the word PlayStation on it. They seem incredibly out of touch with their customer base, sacrificing good ideas and putting out either products that no one asked for or, in the case of the PS5 Pro, a value proposition that's so bad it seems insulting.
The PS5 Pro:
This is the height of arrogance. Midway through the PS3 generation, Sony seemed to acknowledge their missteps in thinking they were assured people's purchases and made a strong pivot from an arrogant position to a humbler one. From that point on, PlayStation entered a golden age of gaming quality and diversity that lasted through the entire generation of the PS4.
I hope this pro console bombs so it sends them a message. They need to listen to what their customers want, not what they want their customers to want.
Does anyone agree, or do you think I'm being too harsh here?
The PS5 Pro announcement in some ways reminded me of the PS3 announcement. And it echoes what we've seen recently with them chasing the GaaS unicorn to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Right now, I think Sony believes that people will buy whatever they put out just because it has the word PlayStation on it. They seem incredibly out of touch with their customer base, sacrificing good ideas and putting out either products that no one asked for or, in the case of the PS5 Pro, a value proposition that's so bad it seems insulting.
The PS5 Pro:
- $700+ tax U.S. (our poor European members are getting reamed even worse than that)
- $80 extra for a disc drive (with tax, this console is now over $800)
- Not even a STAND included so you can buy that separately, too
This is the height of arrogance. Midway through the PS3 generation, Sony seemed to acknowledge their missteps in thinking they were assured people's purchases and made a strong pivot from an arrogant position to a humbler one. From that point on, PlayStation entered a golden age of gaming quality and diversity that lasted through the entire generation of the PS4.
I hope this pro console bombs so it sends them a message. They need to listen to what their customers want, not what they want their customers to want.
Does anyone agree, or do you think I'm being too harsh here?
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Mownoc
Member
You can get a proper PS5 with disc drive and 1 TB for less than 500$. This is the entry price.
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cireza
Member
What is this thread about already ?
