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(RUMOR) PS5 Prices leaked on carrefour
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Well, surely, plus they're the majority shareholder of the format. However, the cheapest player is still $150+, so wasn't sure what the markup was.
Yeah was also my first thought.
If the PS5 digital is 400 that will be a instant purchase.
Because up until now consoles were weak AF and not really competition for high end PCs. Plus while these new consoles are competing now they're competing with current but about to be last gen stuff on pc. New stuff will drop from both AMD and Nvidia very soon and if you want the best you gotta pay to play, it's terrible but it is what it is. Consoles will help out the midrange cards though for sure. Rising tides lift all boats or however the saying goes.
Not true. A new release costs $70 on PSN. Sony gets 30% of those 70 bucks, so $21 per game. That would mean they got their loss back in just 5 games (not counting DLC). However; Sony gets 100% of every first party game and PS+ is still a thing, so if someone would buy Spider-Man and a year of PS+ at launch for instance Sony would already be making a profit.
Of course it's not as black and white as this, but they will have that $100 difference back in no time.
They also have to compete with Lockhart, which if the rumours are true will probably mean it's able to retail for a lower price than the PS5
It might be worth positioning the digital PS5 as $100 cheaper for the reasons people have already stated, plus as a means to negate Lockharts appeal
If the digital PS5 and Lockhart are close in price, then maybe the fact the PS5 is a fully powered system and not a weaker system will sway people into getting the PS5 over Lockhart
Yes, plus if they normally have to make, manufacture and ship 5m disc versions of a game, and due to the uptick in digital sales, they can reduce that to 2.5m, then they save a ton of costs in distribution as well
Back when the PS4 hit - it was basically mid tier but it was cheaper than last gen (PS3/360 launch prices), so that was a bit of a win.
But my gut feel is that these new consoles are a lot stronger than last gen consoles were to PCs at the time. I think these consoles will stay pretty competitive for a good 2 to 3 years, before PCs pull away again and they might even be able to get away without having a mid gen console refresh.
Yeah sure a 3080 will already overtake the PS5/XSX - but not that many people will own one. And PC gamers as a whole will take longer to upgrade if prices are higher.
Until it's $70 across the board it's much safer to assume $60 as the average sale price (not to mention not every game launches at full price and not every gamer buys at full price). If they make $18 per game then at 10 games sold which is pretty high (most consoles don't hit that's on average) they make $180 so $100 lost on the digital plus the about $100 they'd already be losing on the hardware makes them break even or slightly negative. You cant count ps plus or ps now as a factor in the $100 digital price difference because you need that on either machine so it's a non factor, yes that would be close to straight profit but you're forgetting billions in R&D, marketing, employees, cost of making games. PS plus and mtx aren't going to pay for all of that alone. They have to sell as many games as possible and make money on the console as fast as possible. In my opinion we're gonna see at best $449/499 but I really think it's going to be $499/$549
I think these are probably placeholder prices as well. A DS4 is right now more expensive than it lists the DS5 as, and the DS5 will contain more advanced features.
Even if they somehow found a way to cut costs in manufacturing the DS5, it would be silly not to keep it the same price as people are used to paying for a new controller
Even if they somehow found a way to cut costs in manufacturing the DS5, it would be silly not to keep it the same price as people are used to paying for a new controller
Yes the remote is the giveaway, I believe we were told the price for the remote was 24.99 or 29.99 I cant recall.
But after sonys financials forecast I'm convinced the DE will be 399, but i think standard will be 449.
Yea Lockhart is the biggest unknown in the whole equation but if Lockhart is a huge success overall for Microsoft I just don't know how to even quantify how much it would affect Sony. There just so strong from a brand standpoint. Like for example people still buy $700 iphones even though the $400 android phones do all of the same stuff. We'll see it's definitely interesting.
I can totally see Sony eating 100 bucks per digital version just to give an extra kick to xbox's rumored series S. Its less about the cost of a blueray player, and more about undercutting the competition by eating a 100 bucks per device. Also Digital sales easily makes them their money back.
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