PS5 or Xbox Scarlet will probably price around 499 to 549 USD

[Chrkeller]

CuCabeludo said:

Chrkeller said:

I don't understand this perspective at all.  For starters, it absolutely isn't a certainty, unless you can post a direct quote from Sony claiming such a price tag.  Secondly, the Xbox X is the most powerful console on the market, how is it selling?  Yeah, not great. 

Price point + games = success

Power does not equate to success.  Currently the Switch is killing in the market place.  Remind me, what console is by far and away the weakest?  

The original Xbox outclassed the ps2 by a long shot, it wasn't even close...  Which console sold 150 million units?  

The Wii was a glorified Gamecube, I guess that sold like the Virtual Boy?  

Sony will have to find a middle ground with the ps5.  They will have to make core gamers happy with power, but yet maintain a price suitable to the masses.  $500 isn't that price point, most certainly nothing over $500.  

I'm guessing $399, though noticed in my earlier post I had a typo where I said $350.  I meant $399.  

Sony already stated they are aiming at the harcore gamer with PS5, and the hardcore gamer only. It already implies it will be a more niche product that will let most casual gamers are out of their equation for at least for the first 2 years of the console life until it gets cheaper.

Lol.  Yes, that is called public relations.  Sony isn't going to make the ps5 a niche console, not when the entire success of the entire Playtation brand has been built on mass appeal.  PSN+ subscriptions rake in billions for Sony.  Do you really believe they want to greatly reduce the number of subscribers by going niche?  I don't.  Sony isn't making the ps5 niche, not even on a temporary basis.  At best I could see Sony dual releasing a ps5 and a ps5 Pro, $399 and $499 respectively.