PS5 Pro revealed. November 7th 2024. $699

[XtremeBG]

Mar1217 said:

It'll be a great exercise in showcasing how much gamer enthusiasts is willing to swallow before the pill is simply too big to even get into your mouth.

Of course, the 2TB SSD is definitely worthy of note for the reason which is why we ain't seeing the awaited 599 price instead. Nonetheless .... Of course they gotta fuck up everyone else with the exchange rates as well.

699£ is just astonishing how bad this is getting. 800 Euros is gonna price out the majority of the EU market. There's also the thousand mark being likely for both Canadians and Australians .... Just wow.

And the cherry on top ... 120,000¥ ?!!! This is basically unachievable for the great majority of Japanese players.

Appart from launch and maybe the holiday bump, this will be an almost unnoticeable presence to the overall PS5 sales. Not even 10% of the total sounds like a real possibility.

Soundwave said:

This is actually the pricing all in USD with tax

US ~760USD
JAP ~842USD
EU ~881USD
UK ~915USD

So yeah Americans shouldn't be complaining. Everywhere else is the equivalent of $840+ USD. Look at that UK price, lol. 

PS5 Pro saying to the PS3's 599$ 2006 price "hold my beer". PS3 at least could backed it up. PS5 can't. PS3 at that time yes it was expensive, and not for anyone but at least had more and better games at it's launch years than whole of the PS5 gen, had full backward native compatibility, had free online, and you really got the next gen graphics, so it's price was with reasons for it. And let's not forget the then relevant new tech - Bluray player. PS5 has none of these things and the thing with what they try to sell it is game from 2020 on the PS4. To put PS3 in the same situation it had to had no backwat compatibility in 2006, had almost no games only 2 till 2010, and show game GTA Vice city from 2002 on it's 2006 E3, running in 720p. (even then the resolution difference was there, where now anything above 2K is hardly noticable let alone 4k and 8k)

Cerebralbore101 said:

So let me get this straight. Controllers now break with drift every other year and cost $75. PSN is $79.99 a year for the basic version. No price cuts for consoles. No disc drive included. Games go to PC within a year or two. Massive amounts of money being wasted on crap like Concord or buying Bungie instead of focusing on good single-player games.

Anybody remember when PS4 was $300 for the slim model, PSN was cheaper, games were actually exclusive, and controllers didn't break?

Don't get me wrong. PC blows because no physical option. But both Sony's and Xbox's consoles are pathetic compared to what we had one generation ago. I think I'm done with modern consoles after this gen. Maybe I'll upgrade my PC and wait until games are 70% off to buy them. Paying $70 for a digital-only copy of a game is for morons, especially if you aren't going to play the game immediately. And my backlog is massive anyway.

Edit: Switch 2 I will probably still get. But I think you guys know what I mean. Modern as in $500 and up gaming machines that sit below your TV.

In a contrary to that I will just write down the 180 degrees opposite case for the best console generation - PS3&360.

Controllers that lasted forever and yes, even their charge time beloved by many - Dualshock 3 and the 360 wireless one which became favorite one for milions of players.

Free online play, and only 60$ for the XBL, in a time when there were no microtransactions, and the online was really fun.

Pricecut on every 12 months. Yes, literally. Go take a look at the time period between 2006 and 2012. (and yes I put the 360 in this too, it was not only for PS3).

Not only disc drive but even freeking memory cards, adapters, and compatibility for almost everything.

Really exclusives games that did not come to PC. Yes even those for 360 (almost all of them).

Custom hardware where you could see graphics improvements pretty much every year till the end of the gen.

And lastly but not least, a ridiculious prices for the then last gen console in that time period in case you are broke and can't afford more than 299$ (199$ later) for the bare minimum of next gen console that was XBOX360 Core/Arcade - 99$ PS2, with plenty of good games to play.

Last edited by XtremeBG - on 11 September 2024