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Kyuu on 10 September 2024
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Shaunodon said:
Kyuu said:

Okay now that's some BS. Sony never prioritized the digital edition of PS5-Beginner even after increasing its price by $50. On the contrary, they made digital PS5 upgradable midgen.

PS5 Pro has an atrocious pricetag and won't sell enough units to affect digital distribution. They probably just thought including a disk drive in a default SKU will start a "$799!" meme.

You're acting like $699 isn't already a meme. The price is already outragous and they want you to plonk on another $100+ at your own volition to actually put discs in.

"$799" as the standard price makes for much better meme material than doing mathematics. Again, if Sony wanted to boost digital adoption, they wouldn't have increased the PS5 DE price nor made it compatible with an optional disc drive.

Soundwave said:
Kyuu said:

Who cares about Xbox though? PC/Steam will be fucking them up. This is the first time I'm skipping a Playstation console in favor of PC, and there are millions like me.

Sony knows they have people by the balls. $700 US/800 Euro (LOL) is a ton of money, but Sony knows full well you can't build a comparable PC for the same cost. 

AMD has basically said they're not even going to try and compete with Nvidia's flagship GPUs anymore, so Nvidia will charge through the ass for their future GPUs at $1000+ for any of the really good models. For Nvidia, gaming GPUs are becoming a tiny part of their overall business anyway, Switch + PC GPUs (gaming business) represented like only 9% of their entire revenue in their latest earnings report. Nvidia is basically going to become an AI services focused company. 

Gamers are just gonna have to accept getting fucked up the ass in pricing to have smaller and smaller tangiable graphical gains, that's all there is to it. Say bye bye to price cuts too. 

Steam and PC are rapidly growing, Playstation is starting to decline despite having weak "direct" competition, the overlap is clear. There are a ton of benefits in going to PC, and the disadvantages of the old days are almost completely gone. Most gamers are becoming aware of that and many are losing interest in consoles, which are nowhere near as "cool" as they once were when they had countless exclusives you couldn't play on PC.

By keeping the prices as high as they are, Sony is also going to lose a massive demographic that can't afford a $400+ console (or PC). All of that will lead to weaker sales and potentially weaker profitability. They will keep bleeding players to PC (most of whom are actually fine with buying weaker PC's than PS5, and upgrading at a later date. I'm an example myself.) and eventually Nintendo if they price their next console wisely.