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EricHiggin on 21 September 2024
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Qwark said:
JRPGfan said:

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.

The PS4 hardware execution last gen was extremely well done. PS5 was as well initially, if SNY would've skipped PS5 Pro and made it a shorter gen based on the economy and inflation. They should choose one of those methods and continue with that going forward. I'd say the PS4 method is arguably the safer route to take. Like you guys said, keeping the base hardware cheap, and all hardware in general cheaper, is what consoles are about and what works best overall.

XB Series wasn't a terrible idea from this perspective, they just didn't execute as well with the XBSS, but weren't far off. It's also hard to see that because of SNY's dominance and the losses they took on the PS5 Digital model to make it a better deal than the Series S.

Based on PS5 sales crushing XBSX sales, and the fact that XBSX on paper is more powerful, for the same price, I think SNY is in a place where if they wanted to, they could go back to the exact same formula they used for PS4 hardware, or could basically copy the XB Series method. Maybe SNY would want something like a $400 and $600 console launch instead of $300 and $500, but keeping the next gen base console below $500 is key.