Is Sonys image starting to stain in your view? (Poll)

[Qwark]

JRPGfan said:

Qwark said:

12 years ago $500 couldn't even get you a 2 TB SSD. But yes Moore's LAW appears to be dieing. The PS5 pro GPU is 45% faster than the PS5, but it's also 50% more expensive than a PS5 digital with an additional 1 GB SSD. The CPU however is still exactly the same.

The PS6 might launch for $550, but with a lot less than we have now. Sony might reuse the Dualsense again and not include it in the basic version, same for the disc drive. Sony made more money with the PS5 in 3.5 years than the PS4 in 7 years. It's not like they can not sell the hardware at a loss or no profit, they simply won't do it anymore.

I thought they said the CPU in the PS5pro boosts to 3.85 ghz (up from 3.5ghz) at the cost of like 2% GPU performance only.
So there is a 10% increase in CPU speeds compared to the normal PS5.

But yes, its the same cpu (I think?) just running faster.  Not sure if there extra stuff inside it, that drives cpu performance up while gameing.

I honestly don't want consoles getting more expensive.
To me the "point" of a home console is easy of use, and bang for buck.
Its to make gaming easy for the masses.

They need to stay that way, imo.

That should be the way in my perception. Mass production should make things cheaper and Sony already gets lots of revenue for services like PS+ and royalties that should warrant making no profit on the initial hardware.

However Sony has been very vocal about not making enough profit, so I fear that affordability is not a prime concern or that they will have a budget DIY PS6 version. With no disc drive, controller, barely any storage nor a vertical stand. Which is a massive enshittification move.

I can also see Sony will no longer publish discs themselves and the optional disc drive is only usable for backwards compatibility and third party games that launch on disc, since Sony doesn't make as much money on store sold games.

The 10% faster CPU is nice, but like with the PS4 pro it will most likely not make huge differences and it is a relatively old CPU with an old design.