| BraLoD said: Sony will have no need to keep the price down if the other option is paying $1000+ on a Xbox PC. My guess would be that the PS6 will cost $700 and there will only be a discless version of it, with support to add a disc drive like the PS5 Slim and Pro. Should have a bundle of it plus the disc drive for $750 for convenience plus a small discount ($20). I do think the PS6 will ship with a 2tb SSD as the only option tho, but would like to see a 1tb version for $650 (or even $600 as they cost about $100 now), they should have done the same for the PS5 Pro. I think the Xbox Helix will cost $1100 so asking $700 for a PS6 will look like a blessing, Sony won't eat basically any loss over it from day one, $50 tops if they want to have a round number like I'm thinking. $700 for a PS6 that is 3x stronger than a PS5 Pro, has access to PSSR 2 (they are purposedly not calling the PS5 Pro current upgrade now PSSR 2 to save it for marketing) with Path Tracing, comes with the Dualsense 2, and the benefit of being the primary system games are developed for, costing what the PS5 Pro launched at despite this huge price increases and it having even better SSD and RAm, doesn't sound bad at all IF you are willing to pay $700 in the first place (won't have a similar choice nowhere near that price point otherwise tho). It'll definitely price out a lot of people, but sadly there won't be where to run off to, so I think if it doesn't reach $800 it still look like the best deal around by far. |
Sony still has to convince users to upgrade. Sure there's a good 20-30m who will run to buy the next system at any cost but plenty of people may just not upgrade and thus Sony looses their engagement and that weakens their ecosystem. They have to protect that & seek a balance regardless of whether Microsoft is competition or not.
Even with no competition from Playstation, Nintendo still had to drop the 3DS price by 30% just to validate its existence to its target market.
