BraLoD said:
Not yet. PS has been testing waters. Raising standard game full price (I think that one would happen anyway, tho). Not making any price cuts the entire gen. Slim is not cheaper. Raising the price of the PS5 in several places in 2022, then again massively on Japan now. Raising the Dualsense price now too, without even announcing it. And now this absurd price for the Pro, with no SKU options for pre-installed disc drive model or even a 1TB model, and everywhere is a lot worse than that $700 price in USA. They don't even give a stand charging that much! There is no way the PS6 will not follow suit on being "premium priced" if the consumers keep accepting it, there will be no good options, and when that happens it'll be too late to be worried. |
In the short time I've been in this site I have read some of your opinions and I do believe they are pretty good but on this one I feel it's a little more of a reaction than an analysis.
We know the first $70 game was nba 2k21 and yes Sony didn't need to follow the trend but we also know from various developers that they believe asking $70 is cheaper in comparison to how much game cost these days. Even better, the same way Sony started to use the 70 price tag, they also put the 40 price tag in their services and not only that but they also decided for their 40 services to not be predatory. Helldivers sold a lot of $60 copies, people didn't need to, you can get everything playing the game but they decided to do it because the game is awesome. Other examples: Astro is $60, The last of us 2 remaster was an upgrade for $10 (people who bought it already having it were refunded). The GOW R dlc is just pure magic and it's free. Yes every company is greedy but they are showing sings of not being over confident when it comes to game pricing.
I don't know where you are from but the PS5 was $700 in my country when it released, now it is 500 with Returnal and Ratchet, two of my favorites and I know the console had good prices since before the slim release in both USA and Europe, yes it isn't a standard price but also it happens constantly.
Rising prices is part of the economy so let's not waste too much time in that point. Japan is suffering right now, I remember this kind of popular tweet before evo asking people to buy water and food to japanese players at EVO if possible because their coin is really suffering.
About the ps5 pro, well the ps4 pro was $400 in the usa, $450 in europe and it was $600 in my country and it released like 6 months later lol.
Now, two points I want to give you is the dualsense increase and no option for a pro with disc drive. I didn't like that, it's not a deal breaker but I didn't like it.
But what I think should also be included in the conversation is the ps vr2, it got a $200 price cut lol. Like ... people aren't just blindly buying stuff, they didn't buy it and the price dropped hard. So watching people ranting (not you) about the ps5 pro is actually good news for me because I know that whenever the console hits my country people supposedly aren't going to buy it and the prices will fall in a matter of months on Amazon.
Last edited by GymratAmarillo - on 11 September 2024
