That is a ridiculous price for a games console.
And PC gamers can stop looking smug because GPU prices make that unreasonable as well.
We need to rethink raytracing, because chasing it has just made everything unaffordable.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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I am definitely not saying boo urns.
Seeing all the clips of Astro Bot was making me really want a PS5, despite the big price hike we got just last week where I am, then I saw this price and my desire for any PS5 curled up and died again.
There's still the regular PS5 though
Which literally just had a surprise price hike last week where I am that makes it cost more than my rent. The fourth price hike.
The greedy price hikes were why I had decided not to get a PS5 in the first place, and this price took me right back to that.
Oof, dang. Might be with buying a broken unit and refurbishing it
Why not go PC at this point. Modern consoles are locked pre-built PCs and paying $700 for a locked system is crazy.
Because a PC at a $700 price point will not perform the way the PS5 pro will, or be guaranteed that level of performance on its games for nearly as long. You can always get a better PC for more money but even at $700 the value to performance ratio is there for consoles.
Honestly price isn't an issue and the reason to go PS5 over PC is the ease of use. I can't stand having to get up to use my mouse to click start game, or games that never implemented proper console support on PC for whatever reason. It's just so much easier to have working HDR, Dolby Atmos, etc on a PS5 than it is with Steam big picture on a PC. I've tried it many times and there's always some frustration with the PC on a home theater setup.
Steamdeck + Dock and you can game on your TV AND on your travels.
800€ in Europe, that's a hard NO. Plus devs will still target the PS5 for optimising their games. This release was completely unnecessary.
The only reason why it exists is perhaps to try to normalise the higher prices for the PS 6.
- 120€ if you want the disc drive. That’s 920€ total. A new PS5 Slim with disc drive is less than 500€ and I’ve seen used PS5 Phat with disc drive on ebay for less than 350€.
Almost double the price for a bit nicer raytracing, 2TB and higher framerates in the very few games that don’t support at least 60fps is a very hefty asking price.
For 900€ you can get a pretty good gaming PC. If you buy some parts used, you can even get a really good rig for that price. You might just need to wait a few years until the latest sony exclusives make it to PC eventually.
That’s what I thought too. They test the waters for a much higher price point. I’m not buying it, if they price the PS6 above 500€ with a disc drive I say goodbye to console gaming.
Sony bought all the "Xbox is dead" talk (true or false doesn't matter, Sony believes it), and has started the high-end gaming console monopoly pricing.
I never thought the PS5 was underpowered. This is kind of a product without a need.
The point in their presentation was having graphics modes be an immovable 60FPS instead of 30FPS. Presumably, every game with a performance mode (that was previously 60FPS) will now run at 120FPS. That's effectively just doubling everything. It's certainly not a bad product, but it isn't for everyone.
I think lots of games would hit a cpu bottleneck before they reach 120 fps
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