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EricHiggin on 13 September 2024
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SvennoJ said:
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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!

SNY won't launch next gen above $499. That was the right price for PS5 this gen, if the economy had remained chugging along like it was. $299 for a few gens, $399 for a few gens, now $499. Or at least those should've been the launch prices. That's part of the reason why PS3 was so shocking.

PS5 Pro is only going to sell maybe 10% of total sales if it's lucky. If they sell PS6 for $599, that same crowd will buy it, and maybe some launch buyers who don't necessarily care about mid gen upgrades, but that's only a tiny fraction of the target audience.

SNY can't afford to do that, unless they plan on actually operating the ecosystem as if PS6 is really just a PS5 Premium, beyond Pro. I don't see that happening.

As for copying what XB did, SNY might do that if XB backs off or out of console hardware. If XB moves forward with the same idea next gen, or goes back to one single top tier SKU, I don't see SNY copying XB this gen because of how well PS5 sold vs the Series consoles.

Now if XB does back down on hardware, then SNY could possibly do that. Make PS6 a new version of the PS5 Pro, and launch a PS6 Pro at the same time. If SNY were to do that, around 2028, I'm guessing pricing would be $499 and $749 as things stand now.