Black_Hawk
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^^ The comments on the above video are hilarious!
Welcome PlayStation 5 Pro, the most visually impressive way to play games on PlayStation
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^^ The comments on the above video are hilarious!
nullpc
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Agreed. Honestly most should just get PS5 (esp under 40k deals with disc). At that price point, it only makes sense for extreme digital-only fans and pixel/fps peepers. I consider myself in the latter camp but even I am taken back by that pricing and ROI. Sure, would be nice to run Forbidden West on Quality @ 60 fps but it’s not worth 70k+. Really don’t know who this markets to. Even peeps at Digital Foundry were stumped.
Black_Hawk
Skilled
Why the PS5 Pro's $700 price tag bothers me so much
An excerpt from the article linked above:
"For the first time in my life - a life in which I've bought over 20 games consoles - the majority at launch, I feel like a mainstream device is out of reach. Sure, I'm making that choice, as you could argue that I could afford it, but I've got limits and the PS5 Pro's price crosses a line I didn't know I'd set (for the record, I would have paid £550).
So, for the first time in my life, a life in which I've written about video games and tried to tell as many people as possible about why they are so great, I feel like I'm not part of the gang.
It's fine and completely Sony's choice to release a console that alienates 90% of the audience, but part of my shock is simply that I didn't think it would happen - and that I'd be in the 90%. That's an arrogant thing to say, for sure, but it's the truth.
Through some savvy saving (I had two jobs before I was a teenager), selling old hardware, and having few other expensive hobbies/vices, I've never really considered sitting out a console due to cost. So, yeah, the PS5 Pro price feels significant in a way that I didn't expect. Either part of the industry I love is saying I'm not part of it any more, or I don't love it enough to be involved. Both options trouble me somewhat."
An excerpt from the article linked above:
"For the first time in my life - a life in which I've bought over 20 games consoles - the majority at launch, I feel like a mainstream device is out of reach. Sure, I'm making that choice, as you could argue that I could afford it, but I've got limits and the PS5 Pro's price crosses a line I didn't know I'd set (for the record, I would have paid £550).
So, for the first time in my life, a life in which I've written about video games and tried to tell as many people as possible about why they are so great, I feel like I'm not part of the gang.
It's fine and completely Sony's choice to release a console that alienates 90% of the audience, but part of my shock is simply that I didn't think it would happen - and that I'd be in the 90%. That's an arrogant thing to say, for sure, but it's the truth.
Through some savvy saving (I had two jobs before I was a teenager), selling old hardware, and having few other expensive hobbies/vices, I've never really considered sitting out a console due to cost. So, yeah, the PS5 Pro price feels significant in a way that I didn't expect. Either part of the industry I love is saying I'm not part of it any more, or I don't love it enough to be involved. Both options trouble me somewhat."
Black_Hawk
Skilled
nahi aayega.
kaise aayege jab GPU alone will cost 1.48L ?
4080s lena hai kya....
dvader
Adept
Personally, I don't mind the $700 price (PS3 launched at $599 for a higher storage variant, adjusted for inflation that comes out more I think). Honestly, it won't matter, it will sell and if the sales are slow initially, there will be bundles and eventually it won't matter.
The point is, that the PC industry is the culmination of decades of efforts by market and tech leaders to easily mass-produce PC parts and provide them at an affordable price to consumers while making a profit. Sony can't reinvent the wheel of computing technology. Consoles are just turning into PCs and locked ones at that. Believe me, consoles are not bringing anything new, PS games are coming to Steam (no one wants to ignore the PC market share). Steam understands it and that's why they didn't go with some proprietary shit. So PS6 would be more like a PC, XBOX is already a prebuilt PC.
Look at Nintendo, they left the performance race 15 years back. They know their consoles are shit, but you know their games are consistently good (at least the major IPs). They don't change their shit. You won't find Black Mario any time soon. They don't pander to their audience (they sue them /s). Their USP is their games that no one else can do and they do it fairly well.
Sony has their hands in multiple cookie jars and it won't work. The PC market isn't kind to console games coming to PC 10 years too late. People will just pirate them after the initial sales, they are not FromSoft.
All in all, I skipped PS5, will skip Pro, and 6 would be just a PC so I don't think I would need it.
And subscriptions....well it's not gonna work out the way Sony thinks. It never has, it didn't work for Netflix, and it won't work for them. So hold tight, grab a PS5 from some guy selling it here at TE and enjoy the show.
The point is, that the PC industry is the culmination of decades of efforts by market and tech leaders to easily mass-produce PC parts and provide them at an affordable price to consumers while making a profit. Sony can't reinvent the wheel of computing technology. Consoles are just turning into PCs and locked ones at that. Believe me, consoles are not bringing anything new, PS games are coming to Steam (no one wants to ignore the PC market share). Steam understands it and that's why they didn't go with some proprietary shit. So PS6 would be more like a PC, XBOX is already a prebuilt PC.
Look at Nintendo, they left the performance race 15 years back. They know their consoles are shit, but you know their games are consistently good (at least the major IPs). They don't change their shit. You won't find Black Mario any time soon. They don't pander to their audience (they sue them /s). Their USP is their games that no one else can do and they do it fairly well.
Sony has their hands in multiple cookie jars and it won't work. The PC market isn't kind to console games coming to PC 10 years too late. People will just pirate them after the initial sales, they are not FromSoft.
All in all, I skipped PS5, will skip Pro, and 6 would be just a PC so I don't think I would need it.
And subscriptions....well it's not gonna work out the way Sony thinks. It never has, it didn't work for Netflix, and it won't work for them. So hold tight, grab a PS5 from some guy selling it here at TE and enjoy the show.