Optimistic take, lol, and maybe you shouldn't take this too seriously.
>Don't announce the price forever. Start speculation swirling, and focus on the sheer value the console will provide
>Put rumors of $600 and $700 out there
>Announce $500, which everyone now sees as mainstream-friendly price
Imo they are going to sell the digital only ps5 at a loss just because digital sales are much more profitable, and are the main source of income for games sold.
But Im no expert![]()
Buying disc drive edition doesn't mean you are going to buy physical copies only. For example, I have (obviously) disc drive in my X1X, but I have no physical Xbox One games in my collection. All my Xbox One games are digital.
Disc drive is useful for me for both 4K blu-rays and playing BC 360 games though.
Also, who's going to buy much more inferior version of PS5/XSX to play next-gen games with subpar performance and at low screen resolution?
That sounds like MSFT strategy with XBoneX. RRP of 500$ and few months in you could get it for 300$They will just get the high rollers without self control then lower he price the following year. Easy money.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-with-playstation-5-price-due-to-costly-parts
according to this article from Feb 2020, PS5 costs $450 to manufacture meanwhile PS4 costed $381 to manufacture and it had a retail price of $399. With that logic a $499 for PS5 was given no? A $499 is a great price point for PS5 considering the tech in it.
Can you picture them buying 500-549 console (which is $200-249 more than base PS4/XONE and inferior to PS5/XSX)? I don't. Also, you don't need 4K TV to play games on PS4 Pro / XONE X and you won't need one for PS5 / XSX, you can play next-gen games on a ''50-55 1080p TV just fine.people who cannot spend money to have a large 4k tv screen for whatever reason.
Yeah but you can get almost the same utility from a device that's under $300. Society has placed some sort of intrinsic value (luxury) for certain brands and those brands can easily jack up the prices. I wouldn't be surprised if Playstation will try to lean into that. Just look at the box/controller.
Those are just guesses, you know? Bloomberg doesn't know the real costs to make these.
Exactly. Also PS2 in 2000 at 299$ would be around 450$ in todays money. So 499$ isn't that much.People don't count for inflation? 600 dollars in 2006 is +780 dollars today. 400 in 2006 is 520 today, think about it.
That sounds like MSFT strategy with XBoneX. RRP of 500$ and few months in you could get it for 300$
Read my post again...That's BS., the thing with Kinect and two pack in games stayed at 500 for almost the first year, when they ditched Kinect then the price lowered but 300 iafter a few months, yeah show me proof.
Because it never existed in Europe. We never had the 20GB model.Random side note:
It's kind of weird to me that history and the pop culture of the time has always recorded PS3 as a $599 system. There was a $499 model from launch, not gimped in the usual ways, that I believe just carried a smaller hard drive and less unnecessary ports?
Yet it's almost like that never existed.
And not only did we Europeans not have the 500 bucks version, we also had a gimped PS3. No Emotion Engine/PS2 BC. For 599€. Since the Euro was extremely strong back then, we not only paid a lot more for it, we also got a much worse product. I still believe that this is one of the main reasons why the console failed so bad here in Europe, at least around launch.That price was still bad, but not completely terrible compared to a $400 360 (the cheaper model at the time there had no hard drive and was a complete rip, requiring an expensive purchase later), and you were getting niceties like Wi-Fi and HDMI.
A PS5 costs roughly $450 to manufacture. I'm not sure if this is with the controller. If it isn't then the $500+ makes sense.
Also I find it really funny how people are willing to spend $700+ on a phone every 2-3 years but nothing more for than $500 for a console that they'll change in 5-7 years.
Because it never existed in Europe. We never had the 20GB model.
And not only did we Europeans not have the 500 bucks version, we also had a gimped PS3. No Emotion Engine/PS2 BC. For 599€. Since the Euro was extremely strong back then, we not only paid a lot more for it, we also got a much worse product. I still believe that this is one of the main reasons why the console failed so bad here in Europe, at least around launch.
Random side note:
It's kind of weird to me that history and the pop culture of the time has always recorded PS3 as a $599 system. There was a $499 model from launch, not gimped in the usual ways, that I believe just carried a smaller hard drive and less unnecessary ports?
Yet it's almost like that never existed.
That price was still bad, but not completely terrible compared to a $400 360 (the cheaper model at the time there had no hard drive and was a complete rip, requiring an expensive purchase later), and you were getting niceties like Wi-Fi and HDMI.
A home console can't attain the same social value and hasn't the same functional value. It has less utility and cannot be carried around like a status symbol like a phone can. A phone can serve a wide variety of uses including work and what has become essential day to day communication on the move whereas a home console is just a toy you go home to play with.
A smartphone has infinitely more utility and necessity than a games console, which is why people can justify the cost—which is often subsidized by the carrier to boot. You need a phone to be a functioning human. You don’t need a console to be part of society.
Well yeah, but nobody cares about Europe.
Interesting to find out. I do remember the BC. Was Europe the only territory that didn't have the cheaper model, or were there more?
PAL regions didn't get the 20GB model. So Australia, Middle East, AfricaWell yeah, but nobody cares about Europe.
Interesting to find out. I do remember the BC. Was Europe the only territory that didn't have the cheaper model, or were there more?
- On March 23, 2007, the PlayStation 3 was launched in Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Africa and New Zealand, with only a 60 GB model available.
- On April 11, 2007, Sony discontinued the 20 GB PlayStation 3 model in North America, citing "lack of consumer demand."[2] It is widely speculated that the removal of the 20 GB model from the North American market was probably done in order to save manufacturing costs, as there is a difference in cost between the two aforementioned models of around $30.[citation needed]
- In June 2007, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) president David Reeves stated that there were no plans for the 80 GB PlayStation 3 model to be released in the PAL regions, and that a 20 GB PS3 model for PAL regions is "highly unlikely".[3]
Yeah, but oh wait you can use physical on a console. And sell the game later on. Or exchange it. Or share it with someone. Or buy used. Or... oh wait, I think you get the idea...oh wait you can't use different digital stores on a console??
A PS5 costs roughly $450 to manufacture. I'm not sure if this is with the controller. If it isn't then the $500+ makes sense.
Also I find it really funny how people are willing to spend $700+ on a phone every 2-3 years but nothing more for than $500 for a console that they'll change in 5-7 years.
PAL regions didn't get the 20GB model. So Australia, Middle East, Africa
Timeline of PlayStation 3 SKUs - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The 20GB model was apparently also discontinued after 6 month.
A PS5 costs roughly $450 to manufacture. I'm not sure if this is with the controller. If it isn't then the $500+ makes sense.
Also I find it really funny how people are willing to spend $700+ on a phone every 2-3 years but nothing more for than $500 for a console that they'll change in 5-7 years.
they almost ran out of business man![]()
GPUs, especially RTX series is really expensive to make, it's not really much of a nVidia tax...Everytime Microsoft have another shitshow with their launch the less Sony think to themselves they have to worry about what the Xbox will release at, so the PS5 price creeps up.
..and $700 is only a stupid price if there is a ready supply of morons willing to pay it, which unfortunately there is, as the PC GPU market proves.
I am team $499 for the disc edition, don't care much for the digital edition as i definitely need the disc drive.Anyone here still batting for team $399, or has that dream ended now?