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Hardstuck-Platinum 3 days ago
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VersusEvil said:

PS6 won’t be sold as a new generation device so it won’t have exclusive games. It’ll get sold as a premium pro model for those who want the best performance on PS games. Sony tried the overprice system before and it failed, trying it again with a device twice as expensive is pure insanity. But as a niche ultra premium device it could probably get a few million sales in.

Exactly this. 

VersusEvil said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

Everyone needs to stop assuming that a 1000$ base model PS6 is guaranteed. I'm pretty sure that Sony has realised that skyrocketing prices has made the high end PS6 model (codename Orion), no longer viable as a mass market product. What they'll do is take the chipset they designed for the handheld, and package it into a small console shell. That package will be Sony's next main console intended to sell to the masses. The Orion model will be renamed into a professional model like PS5 Pro. I think you're prediction is right though and won't even be called a PS6 because of it. We'll just see names like Playstation Portable, Playstation budget and Playstation Pro. 

It already costs north of $1k to make. Also (bolded) they already have this, it’s called a PS5. The handheld is basically a portable PS5 not a PS6 equivalent device. 

I know, but the PS5 is extremely bulky and wasteful. A PS5 that is only 1/8th of the standards PS5 box size would save Sony so much money on manufacturing and shipping. They are effectively just re-designing the PS5, and that will become their "next gen" console. It won't be called a PS6 though because it would be disingenuous to call it that. 

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