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firebush03 on 11 September 2024
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the-pi-guy said:
BraLoD said:

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.

PS5 pro isn't going to be setting the stage for PS6. 

They have almost completely different markets.

They need their consoles to sell 80+ million. That's the only way to sell their games at a high enough cost and volume to make it worth it. 

I doubt they expect PS5 Pro to sell 5 million at this price.

BraLoD said:

Raising standard game full price (I think that one would happen anyway, tho).

Unfortunately this was bound to happen. 

There's practically been an ongoing arms race to making games bigger and more expensive across most of the industry. 

If anything it feels like this is the first gen there's been more pushback. And we haven't really seen game costs double the way they normally would. Still getting more expensive, but not like it did most gens.

BraLoD said:

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.

This feels like an industry-wide problem as well. 

We're long past the days when PS2 would have massive shrinks and cost $100 or even $70 in the US. 

Hardware isn't shrinking the way it used to. The costs aren't particularly shrinking anymore. 

Even during the PS4 gen, the console barely got smaller and barely got cheaper. 

As far as “PS5 Pro setting the stage for PS6” is concerned, it should be noted that PS4 Pro launched at around $400 with PS5 at $500. Of course, b/c it only happened once, it’s hard to say with good faith that “there exists precedent”, though following a similar trend would suggest PS6 will launch around $700-1000…which I can only imagine the higher-ups at Sony salivating over.

Reading the rest of your comment, am I wrong to interpret your response as one which intends to defend Sony’s anti-consumer practice of raising prices this gen? For instance, we all know *why* game prices are rising, it’s b/c development has ballooned in cost in recent years (and game companies know they can get away with raising prices)…so I struggle to understand why you explain this fact unless your intention was to justify Sony’s decision? Similarly, you described Sony’s aggressive pricing strategy of their consoles as an “industry-wide problem”…again, contextualizing for the sake of justifying. We all know the context, so the purpose of context here isn’t to inform us, but rather to provide an excuse. I hope you see where I’m coming from?

Last edited by firebush03 - on 11 September 2024