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Otter 4 days ago
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:
Otter said:

I think you're loosing track of the discussion. 

If the PS6 lite is literally just the PS5 (and still without portability), doesn't have a ram advantage to properly take advantage of the ML capacities, why would the 100m who already have a PS5 buy it? If the existing userbase isn't interested in buying it, then the argument by the OP remains true.

1. Most PS5 owners will not upgrade to PS6 because it will be too expensive. (A cheap PS6 lite will not be considered an upgrade with your suggestion)
2. As a result PS6 will not get exclusives.

You mention PS5 Pro but its sales are nothing to brag about and wouldn't be able to support an ecosystem. They are solid for a Pro console but I don't it will match the 20% sell ratio of the PS4 Pro. 

I'm not losing track. I'm saying that I don't think Sony cares about people upgrading from PS5 to the next Playstation. They've only just got people over to PS5 from PS4. I think they only care about having a product at a mass market price that people can buy if they want to buy a Playstation once the PS5 has been discontinued. PS5 is big, bulky, expensive to manufacture and ship. This is just to have something to replace the PS5 when they discontinue it because it'll be much cheaper to produce the Canis chipset in mini PS Vita TV like shell than the PS5. Costs are soaring and it's not about performance anymore. So i get back to my previous point. What's going to be the downside from doing this? Switch 2? Still much more powerful than Switch 2. Xbox? Xbox won't have product at mass market price. Backlash? Backlashes don't work. It's just the obvious and logical step forward. The Orion BOM has risen to about 960$. Sony will know they need a plan B because they literally cannot sell the Orion as a mass market product. Sony will win over the consumer by being the only one with a decently powerful console that runs GTA6 at a mass market price. That's all that matters going forward, not beating the PS5 in performance. PS5 is plenty performant enough. 

If its not moving people on from PS5, than it's not moving the needle on exclusivity which is to the point of this thread. I feel like thats a whole other discussion which deserves its own topic.