| EricHiggin said: If the economy and inflation don't really change much, PS6 won't be able to be cheap and powerful. It just won't be possible. Plus unless MS makes some serious moves with XB hardware, SNY will have little reason to make next gen cheap. The only reason we got the $399 PS5 Digital is because of the Series S. As soon as SNY knew they had enough momentum behind PS5, which came by the time PS5 Slim launched, they decided they didn't need to try and compete with Series S really. That's a big reason why the price went up. A 'cheap' PS6 in 2028, as of now, isn't going to be that much more powerful than PS5 Pro and will cost $499. In retrospect, PS5 should've been like 8TF and $399, or SNY shouldn't have launched the PS5 Pro. |
With the recent inflation, $499 in 2020 is already $590 today. I don't see PS6 launching for anything less than $599.
Maybe $549 without disc drive.
The Series S sold much better than Series X despite being on par with XBox One X. Sony could follow and launch 2 different power tiers at the start of next generation as well. Then the cheaper one could be $399, premium one $599.
If they both have the same CPU with the difference on the GPU side, maybe we will get more physics rather than more pixels!
