Interesting that Sony considers a Blu-Ray drive to no longer be a key feature of the flagship console model. They’re probably not wrong, given the long slow decline in importance of optical media. Feels like the beginning of the end when even Blu-Ray’s primary creator is walking away.
Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7
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#22Honestly crazy to me that people will pay 700 for a Playstation instead of 8-900 for a pc
FWIW it is pretty close to the PS4 pro cost at release, adjusting for inflation.
I don't think so. PS4 Pro launch price was $400 in 2016. It would be at $525 this year. But then, the PS5 Pro is dropping the blu-ray disc reader, so add in $80 more.
$780 != $525
Re: Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7
#23Interesting that Sony considers a Blu-Ray drive to no longer be a key feature of the flagship console model. They’re probably not wrong, given the long slow decline in importance of optical media. Feels like the beginning of the end when even Blu-Ray’s primary creator is walking away.
Sony & MS aided in the decline of discs by making a disc drive an expensive add on and having every game need an online connection or day one update to fix bugs.
I'm sure they had a marketing plan of making $90 bucks off a $10 buck disc drive and then go "oh wow, look, only 30% of people spent an extra $100 bucks!"
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#24The pricing is totally wrong on this no matter the specs.
£700 in the U.K. is crazy
Re: Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7
#25Honestly crazy to me that people will pay 700 for a Playstation instead of 8-900 for a pc
I don't think you can get anywhere close to the performance of a PS5Pro with an 8-900 bucks PC. There's also the matter of the user experience, the fact that a lot of people have a large catalog of games on the PS platform. On the other hand, there's a lot of stuff that can be done on a PC that's just impossible on a console. On the one hand, the console is a bargain. On the other, not nearly as much. Apples, oranges…
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#26Anyone bemoaning the loss of the disc drive hasn't used a recent gen console with a disc drive. If you buy a game on disc you still have to install it to the internal storage because the disc drive is incredibly slow. But you also have the downside of having to swap the disc when you want to change games. It's completely pointless unless you have super slow internet speeds.
Re: Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7
#27The price point is a huge miss for me. I'll stick to the original PS5 for the time being.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW it is pretty close to the PS4 pro cost at release, adjusting for inflation.
I don't think so. PS4 Pro launch price was $400 in 2016. It would be at $525 this year. But then, the PS5 Pro is dropping the blu-ray disc reader, so add in $80 more. $780 != $525
I disagree with the idea of adjusting the price to account for a blu-ray reader, that’s just part of the change in expected functionality over time.
But, I did misread the price, I stumbled across the Australia pricing somehow. And if we ask any Australian I’m sure they will tell us that paying Australian electronics prices is a nightmare.
It is funny that the PS4 and the PS4 pro seem to have had very similar release prices. Although I vaguely remember that they might have had to drop the PS4 price pretty soon after release? It was a while ago, though…
Re: Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7
#29Honestly crazy to me that people will pay 700 for a Playstation instead of 8-900 for a pc
I think I spent $800 for a Asus with a 3060 last year. Thats 6gb vram, enough to do AI Art and local LLMs. And run every video game.
It comes with a screen, keyboard, and semi-functional OS(Win 11), but you can always install Fedora on it.
The PS5? The article didn't list the vram. It has some video games, unlike a general purpose laptop that has every computer. If you get access to LLMs or AI art, it is at Sony's will and I doubt they are paying the CUDA premium.
I think this is an education thing. Some low-information person just wants a gaming machine. They don't compare, they just go with something trustworthy where they can play fifa with their high school friends. I have a hard time thinking this is anything other than a failure in information. A more informed person would never this.
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#30Consoles are pricing themselves out of relevance when you can buy a Steam Deck and have access to a vast library of (frequently heavily-discounted!) content for $399.