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[Mibu no ookami]

Sony really wants to get rid of these old PS5 SKUs as quickly as possible.

They dropped bundled price to 500 (539 with Modern Warfare 2).

Wonder if this push will get them to sell out before the new units become available and whether this will put them on target for the 25 million they had forecasted.

Edit: MW3 bundle is also 500. The 539 bundle is for MW2.

 

[Wastelander92]

Bomba, the age of Sony is over! /s

 

[abstract alien]

Damn just say 499. That 500 hits different.

 

[JaksGhost]

Their Black Friday deal must be insane if this is all being done prior.

 

[West Texas CEO]

499.99

 

[ReBurn]

They want consoles to keep moving ahead of Black Friday. I would imagine some people are waiting for a deal instead of buying.

 

[//DEVIL//]

I don't think this has anything to do with Sony replacing the old ps5. Because the slim also is 500$ with a game MW3.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

When is Sony's Financial Report?

 

[Mibu no ookami]

When is Sony's Financial Report?

2am ET

 

[Mibu no ookami]

I don't think this has anything to do with Sony replacing the old ps5. Because the slim also is 500$ with a game MW3.

Good catch.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Every version of the PS5 is sold out on PS Direct except the Spider-Man bundle. Only a matter of time until that sells out at this point.

My guess is it sells out by the start of next week and that's it for the old sku. Maybe even before the Nov 10 release of the slim.

 

[Kerotan]

It's crazy this thing is still sold for 500 three year's after launch.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

It's crazy this thing is still sold for 500 three year's after launch.

I don't think we're going to see much price variation with the PS5 not after Nintendo set the standard of not dropping prices and still selling.

Gamers want consoles and if they continue to buy at this type of clip, we're not going to see much adjustment. The only real chance we have is the PS5 Pro driving the base unit price down, but we'll have to see it happen.

The existence of the PS5 Digital kind of creates a price floor as they're not going to drop the price of that much and the PS5 standard is always going to be more.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Id jump on this if I was looking for a PS5, not a fan of the slim design.

Hopefully the pro is different enough.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

It's crazy this thing is still sold for 500 three year's after launch.

Technically due to inflation it's gotten much cheaper since launch

 

[onQ123]

When is Sony's Financial Report?

The 9th of November

 

[abstract alien]

Technically due to inflation it's gotten much cheaper since launch

Never applied that logic to gaming consoles, but this is true.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Bomba, the age of Sony is over! /s

Good post. I wonder if anyone will glance over that /s and just jump into it, lol.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

According to CPI, $500 buying power in November 2020 was worth $883.94 in September of 2023.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Their Black Friday deal must be insane if this is all being done prior.

Dont get your hopes up.

 

[Codeblew]

According to CPI, $500 buying power in November 2020 was worth $883.94 in September of 2023.

Something is bugged with that calculator (https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm). I got what you got the first time I entered that. But after playing with it with other numbers and dates for a bit, I got a more reasonable $591.38. Inflation definitely hasn't 70+% in less than 3 years.

Edit: I see what we both did. We had 2000 as start year instead of 2020!

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Something is bugged with that calculator (https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm). I got what you got the first time I entered that. But after playing with it with other numbers and dates for a bit, I got a more reasonable $591.38. Inflation definitely hasn't 70+% in less than 3 years.

Edit: I see what we both did. We had 2000 as start year instead of 2020!

I'm confident I set it to 2020, that's so strange, but I should have known something was up because when I did the inverse it was like 422.

Poor attention to detail on my part, should have known something was off, but I copied and pasted.