$700 no disk drive 💀
Imagine paying $700 for a PS5.5
That’s $700 for a digital only edition without a disk drive or vertical stand. It’s $810 to match the features of the PS5.0
Or 800€…
This whole thing is shaping up to be the PS3’s “five hundred and ninety nine us dollars” version 2.
Adjusted for inflation, that’s $1,082.19, by the way (and they still lost money with every single first-gen PS3 sold).
That’s usually without tax in US, right?
Yes.
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Hey, that’s no fair! You didn’t mention that monthly fee GIVES you FREE games FOREVER!*
*Forever as long as you pay the subscription cost
I never uninstalled Disco Elysium and I still can play it even though my subscription ended.
I have some games that I’m sure I didn’t purchase but are not tied to the PS Plus. Maybe it’s a bug?
A subscription is required??
To play online, yes. Has been like that for a loooong time on PS
I was very pissed there was no disk drive, but at least you can get it as an add-on like the Slim version (ended up reading at their blog post, don’t understand how they didn’t mention it during the stream). The 2TB SSD makes it very tempting since we have the digital version and we were looking to get a disk one.
They didn’t mention it, because they want most buyers to use their subscription service and only purchase digital games, which have larger margins, no second-hand market, don’t drop in price as quickly and as often, can be delisted and removed, etc.
It’s much cheaper for you to buy a disk PS5 and install an M.2SSD yourself (up to 8TB), it’s incredibly easy, and Sony has a page/videos on how to do it yourself.
I’ve seen disk PS5 go on sale as low as $400USD at big box retailers, presumably to make shelf space for the pros. The used marketplace is there as well.
To quote Angry Joe: ARE YOU … ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time.
That announcement stream was so weird. 4 minutes of Mark Cerny talking about the features of the PS5 like it didn’t come out 4 years ago, 3 minutes of explaining the PS5 Pro “Big 3” features of GPU upgrade, advanced ray tracing, and PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, and 2 minutes of trailers that looked too (heh) similar to current PS5 gameplay. It’s like they know that it’s impossible to make a new console look good in trailers anymore, so they just rushed to get it over with because everyone has already decided whether or not they want to pay even more for an upgraded PS5.
At least the price for the base PS5 should come down on the used market?
We are at a point of extreme diminishing returns when it comes to video game visuals. Not saying that games can’t look better than they already do, but the improvements are miniscule.
Just for fun: this would have worked so much better if they price dropped the PS5 and introduced the PS5 Pro at the old price.
People are anchored into thinking the PS5 is a certain value, and if they did that, it would instantly make the PS5 Pro and the PS5 appear to be a bargain, and so much of the PS5-owning public would have bought another system because it would be “such a good deal,” while PS5 fence-sitters would jump at the core system. I’m not trained to say for sure, but I think while their profit margin would be lower they’d be making much more money.
