^^ The comments on the above video are hilarious!
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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 itās not worth 70k+. Really donāt know who this markets to. Even peeps at Digital Foundry were stumped.
layful:
[Why the PS5 Proās $700 price tag bothers me so much](ā
Why the PS5 Pro's $700 price tag bothers me so much | VG247ā
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An excerpt from the article linked above:
"For the first time in my life - a life in which Iāve bought over 20 games consoles - the majority at launch, I feel like a mainstream device is out of reach. Sure, Iām making that choice, as you could argue that I could afford it, but Iāve got limits and the PS5 Proās price crosses a line I didnāt know Iād set (for the record, I would have paid Ā£550).
So, for the first time in my life, a life in which Iāve written about video games and tried to tell as many people as possible about why they are so great, I feel like Iām not part of the gang.
Itās fine and completely Sonyās choice to release a console that alienates 90% of the audience, but part of my shock is simply that I didnāt think it would happen - and that Iād be in the 90%. Thatās an arrogant thing to say, for sure, but itās 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, Iāve never really considered sitting out a console due to cost. So, yeah, the PS5 Pro price feels significant in a way that I didnāt expect. Either part of the industry I love is saying Iām not part of it any more, or I donāt love it enough to be involved. Both options trouble me somewhat."
Given how the pricing will be India + the subscription charges its better to build a PC instead of PS5 Pro.
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You all can think PS6 will cost 1 lakh for sure in 2027-28.
nahi aayega.
kaise aayege jab GPU alone will cost 1.48L ?
4080s lena hai kyaā¦
Personally, I donāt mind the $700 price (PS3 launched at $599 for a higher storage variant, adjusted for inflation that comes out more I think). Honestly, it wonāt matter, it will sell and if the sales are slow initially, there will be bundles and eventually it wonāt 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 canāt 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 thatās why they didnāt 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 donāt change their shit. You wonāt find Black Mario any time soon. They donāt 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 wonāt work. The PC market isnāt 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 donāt think I would need it.
And subscriptionsā¦well itās not gonna work out the way Sony thinks. It never has, it didnāt work for Netflix, and it wonāt work for them. So hold tight, grab a PS5 from some guy selling it here at TE and enjoy the show.