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twintail on 05 July 2026
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KLXVER said:
twintail said:
Wouldn't this suggest that users with a disc version of the PS5 are also buying, perhaps exclusively, digital games? Just because someone has a disc PS5 doesn't mean that their buying habits haven't changed as the gen has gone on. 22% of all game units being physical is like a complete reversal of what it was around 10 years ago.

Sure, but it could also mean that they like having the option to buy physical games or borrow games from friends. If 78% of gamers on Playstation are truly digital only, then why are most gamers still to this day buying the more expensive disc version? 

This is a very good point, and I agree that it appears to suggest that users who want digital only are a minority audience. But whether disc based PS5 owners are actually using physical media is hard to gauge without buying/ use habits.

Since digital sales represent closed to 80% of all sales, the amount of physical only gamers are presumably quite low. But yeah, it's a valid point.

EricHiggin said:
twintail said:

I don't think there's every been a suggestion that Sony would launch the PS6 so soon. I mean, yes they could've just launched PSSR with PS6 and still see upgrades. 

But with PS5 Pro, they're doing that on an earlier timeline. 

I'm just some nobody throwing sh*t at a wall on a gaming sales site, so why that would ever translate to SNY doing what I think I dunno. Then again, I did totally suggest MS should do the two tier console strategy well before leaks came out about Series S, and pretty much everyone thought it was a really stupid idea and that MS would never do it.

PS5 Pro won't be seen as a bad move if SNY has an affordable PS6 (model). If they don't, and both the PS6 handheld and console are expensive, then SNY definitely shouldn't have launched PS5 Pro and should've made 9th gen shorter.

There's been some suggestion of a PS6-lite device. Whether that's from credible readings of hardware components or not I am unsure. Though at this point, who knows what an affordable version of a console is priced at.