From talks with other game journalists and contacts in the games industry Sony was hoping MS would announce 599 and 399 price points.
Sony wanted to undercut the Series X by 50 and wanted to show the Series X as overpriced and unnecessary by selling the disc less PS5 at 449 which would serve the double purpose of making a 399 series S look like a REALLY bad deal.
At the current price both SKU´s (and especially the PS5 that has no disc drive) bleed money. This is why they will produce far less PS5 consoles that lack a disc drive then they will for the more expensive option.
They spend time blasting MS for what I and others knew they were doing themselves, cross gen.
The last thing they did not want to do but MS with Game Pass forced them to is make their initial BC PS4 games available on PS5 trough PS Now.
In this lead up every action we have seen from Sony has been lets wait for MS to show their hand and then hope we can somehow come on top.
Sony wanted to undercut the Series X by 50 and wanted to show the Series X as overpriced and unnecessary by selling the disc less PS5 at 449 which would serve the double purpose of making a 399 series S look like a REALLY bad deal.
At the current price both SKU´s (and especially the PS5 that has no disc drive) bleed money. This is why they will produce far less PS5 consoles that lack a disc drive then they will for the more expensive option.
They spend time blasting MS for what I and others knew they were doing themselves, cross gen.
The last thing they did not want to do but MS with Game Pass forced them to is make their initial BC PS4 games available on PS5 trough PS Now.
In this lead up every action we have seen from Sony has been lets wait for MS to show their hand and then hope we can somehow come on top.
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