PlayStation Nation |OT| Playing Astro Bot on the Horizon Until Dawn

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kazuyamishima said:

Kyuu said:

Yeah nothing really surprises me anymore. Ass generation is ass. I still don't have my own PS5 yet and am scared of how expensive the Pro will be. Waited all these years for nothing. Maybe it's time I commit to PC only, and play occasionally on friends/family's PS5/Switch for the few missing games I'm interested in.

Digital Edition went up by 82.5% compared to launch, that's just shy of a 2x increase lol. Currency values dropping doesn't completely explain it, because they also fluctuated in the previous generations where all consoles got a bunch of price drops including the PS3 which was sold at huge losses. PS5 (disk edition) supposedly made money just a few months into the generation. I hoped it would follow a somewhat similar price drop trajectory to PS4 and now I'm an official dumbass.

It wouldn't surprise me if PS5 fails to hit a 100 million units at these outrageous prices (then again I might be underestimating GTA6's effect even without a price drop). And the next generation is going to be a lot worse for Playstation and a lot better for PC unless Sony makes some dramatic changes.

It does, you just have to check google history between USD to yen, it remained stable between 2015 and 2021, then 2022 entered into contest and never looked back, that's when Sony started raising prices, the hike in interest rates did almost nothing to prevent further decline of the yen.

And yeah, nah, the system will pass the 100m. mark easily, I mean they will ship more than 70m. systems by year's end, they would need something catastrophic to happen for not reaching this milestone.

I'm of the impression that part of the reason console sales are down is because of people waiting for the price reduction that always comes with a Slim model. Some of my friends and I are waiting for just that. If SNY doesn't drop the price then we'll just keep playing PS4, and by now, we've always all upgraded in the past. I'm betting that if SNY doesn't pull the same move as with the PS4 Pro announcement with a $100 decrease to the base model price, we're going to see a considerable if not major sales slump after the holiday period going forward, and possibly during the holidays even.

With the narrative out there that we're likely going to have to live with a $500 PS5 and $600+ Pro, if SNY were to go with $400 and $500-$600, sales would be fantastic for the next year. Though it would only make sense for PS to do this if there's going to be a bunch of great must have games launching in the next year that people will likely buy. That would offset any losses to hardware profits, but if games are going to be a concern, then there's no point in dropping the base model price.

What would be epic, which won't happen, is if SNY pulled a PS3 Slim price drop and went with $300 PS5 and $500 Pro.