PS5 Showcase - Wednesday Sept 16

[EricHiggin]

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V-r0cK said:

Ya the difference in S isn't that much at all.  I'm surprised MS didn't price the S to $399 since $299US=$395CAD.  If the S had a disc drive and exclusives I'd want to play I would buy the S in a heartbeat.

Consoles can definitely sound expensive but when you think about how each console lasts you about a decade long, that's quite the bargain.  $500/10yrs is just $50 a year, that doesn't looks so bad now does it? :P

Me too. The only thing that's holding me picking up an S is the lack of disc. I still feel uncomfortable with that.

And I agree about the 10 year investment think, in terms of overall devices, consoles are still the cheapest. But most people don't see that way, they only see the price tag, and consoles had a below 500 price tag for ever and they used to have lots of price cuts. Full game price is still 60 tho.

Tech is supposed to get cheaper. Laptops used to be more expensive, not any more. Anyone can find a very cheap laptop.

Consoles are still kinda cheap, but they used to be very cheap, easy to just impulse buy, like a cheap laptop or a cheap tablet, but not any more I think.

Perhaps it's time to have more console versions with multiple price ranges, like we have with tablets and even phones. (I know that gaming dev is not the same as app dev. I'm just thinking out loud at this point)

I'm content with the price in general, just don't see the legitimate need for the extra $30. I get why SNY would do it, and wouldn't put all the blame on them. It was a fairly balanced objection on a fairly balanced pricing scheme. Price is one thing but marketing is another. I also didn't realize PS5 dropped the optical audio port as well. Will have to grab a splitter if I haven't upgraded to a new 4k TV by the time I purchase PS5.

Didn't know XBSS was going to be under $400 here. At that price I also would have seriously considered it instead of upgrading my PC, if it had an ODD. Being under $400 by more than $1, is going to make people really think twice about picking it up vs a PS5 DE here. Same with XBSX, but not to the same extent, though going over $600 is kinda pushing it here, even if it's only $30 more over.

Once AMD get's their MCM working, where they can have (multiple) CPU and/or GPU chiplets instead of one big APU, it should be much easier and cheaper to create a $300, $600, and $900 model going forward. MS is already headed that direction by the looks of it. 4k, 6k, and 8k models next gen?