"PS VR spotlight kicks off today"
Yeah, I feel like the price talk assumes there's relatively equal interest in both platforms which isn't the case based on any known metric you can point to. At $399/$499, I'm pretty confident PS5 is sold out for it's first year on the market.
yeah at least year 1/2 early adopters will be in no matter what, then once thats satisfied by that time they have enough leeway to do bundles etc.
Its not just about selling what you have though, its about convincing people to wait to buy your console instead of the other. If both consoles sell out what they have for over a year then that's a huge win for xbox, they'll be doing much better than last gen and likely taking some potential PS customers away.
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But that’s the thing we are not on GCN territory anymore. Would a 9TF RDNA2 console, if priced correctly in comparison to its competitor, be a bad one ? Specially in a world where people claim that a 4TF one would be a good option ? I mean in a scenario of 4TF, 9TF and 12TF separated by a US100...www.resetera.com
Not only price but also TF baby 👀
Based on available data PS5 demand is at least twice that of Series S/X and this scenario where folks choose to switch to Xbox based on a $100 delta doesn't actually happen nearly enough to make an impact. It's right up there with the imaginary "confused grandma buys the wrong console" scenario.
He did got his game leaked before E3. So he probably not a fan of it.
No data we have includes people with the knowledge of Series S being $299, which is a huge factor. And I think the $100 difference is quite large, last gen a lot of the reason PS4 started so well was because it was $100 cheaper, the other reasons were much smaller. I'm not saying it'll be a mass exodus of PS4 owners to Series S but Sony will lose a fair few customers and that's pretty big for them.
PS4 was $100 cheaper and 50% more powerful. That's a far different scenario than one where you're $100 cheaper and have 40% of the power. Value is more than price and I'm not seeing a scenario where one gives up 95% of the same third party games available on both platforms along with Sony's exclusives so they can play The Gunk at 1440p (no offense to The Gunk).
That's true but again for a lot of people its just price that matters, next gen is next gen as long as they get the latest games and can play with their friends they don't care. Early adopters are more tech savvy and care more about power for sure, but that starts to be less of an impact when you're looking at an insane value offer at $299.
Exactly. It's £250 in the UK. It plays all the games. It's cheaper than a Switch. I think the SS is going to sell like hotcakes, Microsoft have pulled a blinder and if Sony don't adjust they'll suffer.
It was a culmination of factors. PS4 was cheaper, more powerful, didn't have the always online, drm sign-in stuff associated with it, borrowing/lending games on PS4 was easier/possible and also PS4 didn't force Kinect software and interaction on you. It was a bad call by MS and they redeemed themselves throughout the gen, slowly. It still burns as a bad memory with what Mattrick said that 360 was what people should get if they want to play offline.
Oh yeah I'm so excited. A more competitive xbox means we get more deals and better pricing from Sony. Its a win for everyone. I'd love to see series S take off and put Sony on the back foot.
This is my plan. PS5 at launch. SS when enough Microsoft exclusives I care about are out.
They're not doomed by a long shot, but also, they can't ignore the competiton. Whether they like it or not, they are directly competing with the SS. They need people in their ecosystem. Every SS sale in a one console household could potentially have been a PS5 sale.
Yeah its hard to say exactly how many people are in the camp of price being most important. Playing with friends is a huge one as well, which makes an early gen lead much more important. That's why I think Series S is such a danger to Sony, it gets more people into Xbox earlier in the gen and encourages their friends to get it too. A big reason XB1 struggled so much this gen is because of its poor first year giving away lots of 360 owners to PS4, then later on even if XB1 is now cheaper people buy a PS4 because that's where their friends are.
Will we be able to break apart the Knack console into little pieces and combine it with other PS5nacks to make a big boy PS5nack Pro?
Whenever Sony announces their details it will be overwhelmingly the biggest gaming related news in the moment. They don't need to react to what others are doing and they won't have to fight for attention.
