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Forums - Sony - PS5 and PS Portal Price Increase Confirmed [Update]

Kyuu 1 day ago
Chrkeller said:
Otter said:

PS5 but better upscalling, raytraycing, frame generation, Universal compression, general ML capacity and all the things that will make PS6 next gen. 24GB is the rumour for the portable, so yeah, maybe $400 is too low but it should be $100 cheaper than whatever the portable system is meant to be and maybe $200 cheaper than the main system. 

Agreed it would be cheaper and would be a good idea.  Even if it was similar in power to the ps5, having good upscaling alone will give it a dramatic boost.

Though I loathe frame generation, I really hope that doesn't become a thing.  High fps increases responsiveness of controls, frame generation comes with lag.  It defeats the purpose.  

But overall, yeah, fair point.  I could see it being $600, with the portable being $700 and the main system at $900.  (unless prices get under control)

The "PS6P TV" could cost as low as $500 if Sony is open to selling at a $50-$100 loss. Right now, everyone is assuming prices will go up forever which is a doom scenario, but I'm hopeful they will come down and we return to a short period of console price drops.

PS6P TV will be less powerful than a PS5 on paper, but will comfortably outperform it in RT apps, and ML hardware + more RAM may enable it to beat it in image quality. PS6P costing a $150 more than a current Switch 2 doesn't sound impossible, granted Switch 2 will get at least one price hike.

I'm also of the opinion that game file sizes will get notably smaller next generation thanks to major advancements in compression technology. Note that PS5 crossgen games had much smaller file sizes than their PS4 versions (if partly thanks to SSD's). I also expect one next gen trend will be games having smaller scale/content/bloat to save development cost, and developers will take file size compression more seriously to mitigate the high NAND price issues.

Most of PS6's power will be used on RT/PT, which should reduce file sizes compared to baked lighting. I think it would be wise to offer a 512GB PS6 option (or even lower on the "portables"). This would enble Sony to significantly bring prices down. We know that Switch 2 comes with a standard 256GB storage, so 512GB on Sony's side is doable. Keep in mind than Series S does come with 512GB even though its game file sizes are sometimes like 25-30% larger than PS5's, which in turn could be larger than PS6's versions.

Reducing storage is a simple solution that Sony should use. Just look at the huge price difference between Series X 1TB and 2TB.

Last edited by Kyuu - 1 day ago