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Forums - Sony Discussion - PS5 Pro revealed. November 7th 2024. $699

XtremeBG on 10 September 2024
Wman1996 said:

$700 with no disc drive or stand included. We're in early PS3 territory now if we weren't before. Sony's arrogance could bite them, especially in the likely event PS6 launches for $700 as well.

PS3 territory was little bit better than that .. cuz you at least got a disc drive, you got full native PS compatible with everything released till that moment, and you got more games to play those years than the years we are now in.

For that price Sony should include native PS2 and PS3 hardware and compatibility in the system. This was the only way for that 700$ to sell good.



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Random_Matt on 10 September 2024

I only just noticed the Xbox series X 2TB is a rip off at $599 and a lot weaker.



Zippy6 on 10 September 2024

A few more details.

Apparently GT7 has an 8K resolution mode and a 4K Ray Tracing Mode: PS5 Pro Hands-On: Sony's $700 Turbo Console Hits in November - CNET

40-50 titles will be patched for PS5 Pro at launch. - "Sony says about 40 to 50 games will get patches when the system launches in November"



LudicrousSpeed on 10 September 2024

$700 with no disc drive and no stand. Arrogant Sony is back on the menu, boys.



DroidKnight on 10 September 2024
Random_Matt said:

I only just noticed the Xbox series X 2TB is a rip off at $599 and a lot weaker.

$449 for the diskless 1TB, the $599 comes with a disk drive.  Neither one are mid-generation Pro models.



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Kyuu on 10 September 2024
Shaunodon said:
Kyuu said:

Okay now that's some BS. Sony never prioritized the digital edition of PS5-Beginner even after increasing its price by $50. On the contrary, they made digital PS5 upgradable midgen.

PS5 Pro has an atrocious pricetag and won't sell enough units to affect digital distribution. They probably just thought including a disk drive in a default SKU will start a "$799!" meme.

You're acting like $699 isn't already a meme. The price is already outragous and they want you to plonk on another $100+ at your own volition to actually put discs in.

"$799" as the standard price makes for much better meme material than doing mathematics. Again, if Sony wanted to boost digital adoption, they wouldn't have increased the PS5 DE price nor made it compatible with an optional disc drive.

Soundwave said:
Kyuu said:

Who cares about Xbox though? PC/Steam will be fucking them up. This is the first time I'm skipping a Playstation console in favor of PC, and there are millions like me.

Sony knows they have people by the balls. $700 US/800 Euro (LOL) is a ton of money, but Sony knows full well you can't build a comparable PC for the same cost. 

AMD has basically said they're not even going to try and compete with Nvidia's flagship GPUs anymore, so Nvidia will charge through the ass for their future GPUs at $1000+ for any of the really good models. For Nvidia, gaming GPUs are becoming a tiny part of their overall business anyway, Switch + PC GPUs (gaming business) represented like only 9% of their entire revenue in their latest earnings report. Nvidia is basically going to become an AI services focused company. 

Gamers are just gonna have to accept getting fucked up the ass in pricing to have smaller and smaller tangiable graphical gains, that's all there is to it. Say bye bye to price cuts too. 

Steam and PC are rapidly growing, Playstation is starting to decline despite having weak "direct" competition, the overlap is clear. There are a ton of benefits in going to PC, and the disadvantages of the old days are almost completely gone. Most gamers are becoming aware of that and many are losing interest in consoles, which are nowhere near as "cool" as they once were when they had countless exclusives you couldn't play on PC.

By keeping the prices as high as they are, Sony is also going to lose a massive demographic that can't afford a $400+ console (or PC). All of that will lead to weaker sales and potentially weaker profitability. They will keep bleeding players to PC (most of whom are actually fine with buying weaker PC's than PS5, and upgrading at a later date. I'm an example myself.) and eventually Nintendo if they price their next console wisely.



Wman1996 on 10 September 2024
LudicrousSpeed said:

$700 with no disc drive and no stand. Arrogant Sony is back on the menu, boys.

I don't know how much Sony has confirmed yet for PS5 Pro besides the unveiling video, but they're getting so arrogant that I would not rule out the idea that PS5 Pro boosts cost money for certain released games and upcoming games. Want PS5 Pro performance for your game? $5-$10 extra. 



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Vorodroid on 10 September 2024

It's interesting to know if Indiana Jones: The Great Circle is eventually gonna be optimised for PS5 Pro. I personally wouldn't deny the possibility of Microsoft allowing this.



Jpcc86 on 10 September 2024

I do not believe this is gonna work commercially. $700 is far too much.
Also, how is it technically gonna work? theres very few games that take full advantage of the PS5 hardware, how is a Pro version gonna change that?



twintail on 10 September 2024
Wman1996 said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

$700 with no disc drive and no stand. Arrogant Sony is back on the menu, boys.

I don't know how much Sony has confirmed yet for PS5 Pro besides the unveiling video, but they're getting so arrogant that I would not rule out the idea that PS5 Pro boosts cost money for certain released games and upcoming games. Want PS5 Pro performance for your game? $5-$10 extra. 

Lol no I don't think so.