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Wait what?! Your digital games are more expensive than physical on launch day?
Here in Australia they are. You can usually buy a physical copy on launch day for $60-$80 with the digital version being $90 or $100+.
Digital are RRP so £55-£60 but if you pre-order physical online you can get usually get games for £40-45.
Nop, however, they do have a plan for what i can see
They have 11 first party titles coming in the first year from the SoP of june, so if all the users by at least one game out of the 11, they will reduce the loss by quit a lot.
Yes. For example Avengers is 59.99 on the PS store right now. I can find it on physical from £42.99 with 49.99 being the most expensive.
Don't know about other countries in Europe but in my own country it's also between 20-30€ more expensive to buy digital day one. I really don't know why people would buy 70€ games when there are far cheaper options.
Here is Australia digital launch at $100 and you can always find physical for around $70.
In portugal is 10€ cheaper to buy physical day one, however, the sales are more expensive on the physical side.
Showcase announcement(Youtube link)
The $100 price difference for a $20-30 part (optical drive) helps them recoup more toward the losses on the DE.
Couple the perhaps slightly profitable $499 version (wasn't the BOM around $470?) with a few digital downloads and the loss on the DE isn't so bad- especially once the system itself becomes cheaper to make and they still charge that extra $100 on the optical drive version.
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I'm not sure I understand; a $100 price difference will negate the $70-80 loss on the BOM of the digital edition? Wouldn't they minimize the loss by making the price difference closer to the $20-30 cost of the BR drive (like maybe a $50 gap rather than $100)?
No, the point is to move the consumer from physical to digital.
If you put a 50$ gap, you are not going to do that.
If the regular (and more popular) version is more profitable in the long term, they can afford to loose slightly more on the $399 version longer term to market the PS5 as $399. They're going to basically charge a premium to get the optical drive.
Even after the BOM drops in price- always expect the version with the $20 optical drive to be $100 more expensive than the DE.
Source? And I'm not talking about articles with poor assumptions of what you'd need to spend to build a PC with a 1TB SSD in it.
I guess that makes sense. I'm just not sure if I remember digital-only systems being that much cheaper than the systems that still accept physical game copies.
Unless the $50 gap is for a price point that is already looking ridiculously low to begin with...
No it doesn't. Not the internal SSD controller. It's a compatible expansion SSD that's going to be costly around launch/1st year.
Dont forget about the liquid hydrogen cooling....
They sure know how to hype up their PS5 events.
It's not going to be $50. People will pay a premium to get the optical drive… otherwise they'll get the "cheaper" DE and all the PSN money goes directly to Sony.
Didn't the OS guy say back in June or July we'd be seeing the new UI in action soon?
Still haven't seen it.
Still haven't seen it.
Sony are the masters of leveraging brand recognition. The PS5 is gonna be absolutely fucking massive when it launches.
Here we go, this is what I've been waiting for. The info here will determine whether I preorder the PS5, or buy at a later date.
Edit: Never mind, looks like this will only deal with games. I had saw 'showcase' and had figured it would have all the remaining details.
Edit: Never mind, looks like this will only deal with games. I had saw 'showcase' and had figured it would have all the remaining details.
Not necessarily. The DE could be $299 and I would still get the disc at $499 because I don't like digital only. If Sony is truly going for the $100 gap, it would have to be for a price point that makes the DE more valuable in that aspect. Me personally, I think we're getting $399/449.
So will this be the latest a console manufacturer ever took to reveal the price of their console? Anyone?
Nintendo switch three years ago.
i think Nintendo also did the same with the Wii U if I remember right.
This is what I was hoping when I first saw the headline, but looks like this will deal only with upcoming games.
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