Machiavellian said:
Sony has made no statements if their next system will be backward compatible. For one thing they have the PSNow service which could be their means to supply anyone who wants backwards compatible games especially since they started adding PS4 games to the service. As for Sony charging more than 400 for the PS5, who knows. Killing it this gen could easily cause Sony to believe they control the market again and whatever price they charge customers will snap it up. As for the Pro being 200 bones by 2020, that will be up to Sony but it should be the base system when PS5 shows up. I do not see the Pro being any more than 250 and holiday sales probably would drop 50 off and include a pack in game. Either way MS strategy is pretty clear cut, Sony is not. The PS5 having exclusive games with it only have 3X power over the Pro may or may not be a good strategy. It really will depend on how much better the games actually appear compared to what can be accomplished with the Pro. That may only translate to a 30fps game going 60fps with the same IQ. |
Yes Sony haven't made any statement on it being backward compatibility, and that is why there is even less reason to believe PS4Pro will play PS5 games as you implied moments before.
Who knows? Sony. Even for Pro that is just an upgrade special edition Sony didn't want to make it too expensive. So you wanting Sony to decide to repeat a mistake to end up over 400 is less probable than they keep it under 400.
Yes of course the price will be up to Sony. You are throwing everything to see if anything sticks just to defend that Sony and MS are sending the same message on PS4Pro and X1X. Considering we are 4 years into the gen and baseline PS4 is still 300 I have very little reason to believe their top model to be 200. PS4Pro won't be the baseline system when PS5 comes by. PS5 will play its own game (unless Sony without at any point so far decides to abandon gen, but then it would be pointless to call it PS5).
PS4Pro won't ever be the main Ps4 system, even today it sell 1/5 of total PS4 sales. So PS5 being 3x Pro will be about 7x PS4. But as I said, 3x would be like the minimum in 3 years span. But it could easily be 5 or 6x more in a similar point in time. There would be no point releasing PS5 if there isn't a big gain, even more when MS is playing it with X1X at this moment and shouldn't release a new console so soon. So Really Sony have no rush to put PS5 and make it a small gain, MS is giving away any chance of putting pressure on PS4. So expect PS5 either when the jump is significant or when SW sales start to drop (as have been the golden rule every single gen), and if SW is decreasing then PS4Pro as baseline would also be silly and useless since it would be on declining.

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