People are more than happy to pay more than 1000$ for a new phone and lock themselves into one ecosystem, so yeah. A 300$ phone will do the same things as the expensive one, but people want the latest thing and just shovel their money away to get it. PS5 Pro, though? No no no, it's bad, it's doom. Come on. It's the same thing, people, some of us want to pay top dollar for the seemingly better thing.
I don't understand the moaning about the Pro. It's another option but it's not mandatory, the base model will be just fine. I don't know what they were expecting, that it would be cheaper than the base model?