Right. Fundamentally there is no difference between them on a tech level. Just the delivery device. A third SKU doesnt exist lol
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Speculation: Could there be a third PS5 sku as yet unannounced?
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I don't know why people suddenly expect Sony to replicate what MS is doing. Last time I checked they are the market leader.
No. I think they managed to keep the DE a secret because it's essentially the PS5 without a disc drive and therefore it was just the PS5 dev kit and spec sheet out there.
I think having to simultaneously launch two SKUs is going to be challenging enough, launching a third, given this climate would be near impossible.
I think having to simultaneously launch two SKUs is going to be challenging enough, launching a third, given this climate would be near impossible.
It's not just that, people are expecting Sony to be able and motivated to outmanoeuvre Microsoft on every aspect when they have a different set of priorities that means they are probably not able to and almost certainly don't need to(as the market leader).
A ton of people expect them to undercut the Series X price even though there is no need to.
There is no way Sony is hiding a whole other version of console without some info leaking. The DE is the same as the regular version so it doesn't apply. The issue is that they can't really play around with storage since going above will be very expensive while going below is probably impossible (?) the way their I/O structured.
YES! That's why they are silent, they are busy now producing the PS5 SE after seeing the Series S. It will take a few days, wait for the announcement end of September.
They kept DE under wraps because they didn't need to tell anyone a discless version was coming plus they only had a CG to show and no actual console.
Another sku with different specs would need to be communicated with the partners so they develop games for it and it would ultimately leak just like everything (8tf initial devkits, they aiming for 2ghz+ afterwards, etc) has.
Another sku with different specs would need to be communicated with the partners so they develop games for it and it would ultimately leak just like everything (8tf initial devkits, they aiming for 2ghz+ afterwards, etc) has.
Nah, there's no dev kit for it so that's not going to happen. For the Series S, the XBOX dev kit has for the longest time allowed developers to switch between 'S' and 'X' mode. The PS5 dev kit doesn't have such a mode, so even if they did announce a new model now, devs wouldn't have had time to adapt their games for it.
Most PS5 games I'm aware of have gone gold now. So a new SKU now seems like an impossibility.
Most PS5 games I'm aware of have gone gold now. So a new SKU now seems like an impossibility.