PC will remain much more expensive. But gamers are becoming less sensitive to high prices, and most will be buying PC's that are weaker than PS6 until the end of its generation. "High specs" aren't all that important anymore. A Series S style Playstation might actually be needed this time around, knowing Switch 2 exists and a portable Playstation may be in the works.

Apparently a bunch of angry PS fans have been emailing Sony about this, and one of them got a response. A boilerplate one, but nonetheless.

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2025/07/30/ps5-games-multiplatform-xbox-leak-sony-response/

“While we continue to explore new ways to grow and evolve the gaming ecosystem, we are committed to preserving the unique identity that PlayStation represents. As we have in the past, we will always listen to feedback from our community, including valued players like you, and ensure that our decisions are aligned with the experiences you expect from PlayStation.”

This screams like a 3 year old not wanting other kids having the same toys that they have. Only they want the toy.

If some things don't change, gaming and non gaming related, I don't see how SNY get's away with just a $599 or higher PS6 next gen. Even if it were to launch holiday 2029, that would still be a tough pill to swallow for many, so I'd expect a more PS3 like launch and generation.

In this case, I would agree, an XB Series approach would be the way to go. 3 SKU's if they're going to do a handheld (hybrid). Having only 2 SKU's, the cheaper being a dockable handheld, isn't going to cut it, if the console is $599 or more.

I'd guess a $499 handheld would be most likely at this point, but then you'd need another $499 console (an updated PS5 Pro), and then a $599 or higher model.

The only thing I can think of that would allow SNY to get away with a single console in this case, would be a pretty substantial subsidy, which would seem really unlikely at this point, but with XB losing more and more ground in the hardware space, maybe just maybe SNY would be more open to taking a bit more of a risk again perhaps, due to lack of competition.

As a side note, personally, in retrospect, I really think the PS5 should've been 8TF and $399. I kinda think that might have actually been the initial plan before something changed, whatever it was for whatever reason. PS4 is basically 2TF, PS4 Pro is basically 4TF, PS5 should've been 8TF, and PS5 Pro is basically 16TF. The PS5 being basically 10TF doesn't fit near as nicely, and leads us to where we are today.

Yeah I understand it if people think it's a mistake business wise, but getting upset that others will be able to play the same games as you is childish.

Fanboys gonna fanboy I guess.

I honestly believe we are going to a future with the ability to buy games on Amazon for like 59.99 that plays on PS but Sony not receive any % from it. 

Basically the possibility that Sony has to open their store and other stores can sell digital codes for less, stores will make deals and compete with each other (10% cut only as an example).

Gamers can't really be against it, publishers similary will love it.

A lot of people believe this but I just don't see how this future happens. People keep pointing to what's happening on mobile without understanding why it's happening to mobile and can't be applied to consoles.  Even then the mobile issue still isn't closed with Google and Apple still fighting back against it and having success.

I don't think anything will change honestly. Even on PC Steam still charges 30% while other stores charge less and it doesn't matter the consumer wants to be in the ecosystem they know. Xbox PC app charges like 12% and Borderlands 4 didn't even bother releasing on their PC app store. So even on PC where there is a ton of competition people still just default to Steam. Most likely even if this did happen PS would just make it a pain to install other app stores and 99% of people will just default to the PS store. I could even see Sony disabling trophies for any game not on their store and just making it a pain overall.

If Sony doesn't take a cut for every 3rd party dollar sale, they may as well kill the Playstation platform. The 30% cut is by a landslide the most important aspect for the Playstation business.

I did not mention Mobile tho,

You can buy games from humble bundle, ichi,io and smore places and play it on steam with Steam getting a marginal or no cut at all.

Even better the game key program make it so that publishers can generate steam keys and sell them to other stores without Steam getting a dime for it but the obvious idea behind is  'if they use the key on steam they will probably be more inclined to buy games in the future on steam'

^Devs/publishers/Gamers love this.

Making it a pain for games/devs etc will create a backslash, case in point Helldivers 2, Steam has become the main platform for that game and it is thanks to the fact that anyone can play it, don't need to pay for online etc...

Their is also the fact that their is an class action lawsuit against sony's digital store in Europe and if Sony grows especially with buying other studios it will lead to scrutiny cases with as a result that Sony has to open 'more' the digital store. Sony knows this, thats we see the push to having a big Online game, to release games on Steam and other platforms. Sony has stated openly that is not anymore about 'Sales' but users.  If they want more third party sales would it not make sense to make PS5 cheaper and sell more consoles to sell more games to get those 30% cuts?

Helldivers 2 seems to have done very well on Xbox, so I can see Sony taking this as a green light to bring more games multiplatform.