Sony releases first new details of the next PS PS5

[XxGamerXx]

https://www.wired.com/story/exclusiv...t-gen-console/

Looks to be amazing

[peter42O]

Monster specs as expected but also expected to be expensive which is fine by me. Rather have a powerful console day one. Best of all, it's all from Cerny and thus, legitimate. My only fear is that they rush it out in less than a year from now which I truly hope that they DON'T do. I'm hoping for September or November 2020.

[mgoblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by peter42O

Monster specs as expected but also expected to be expensive which is fine by me. Rather have a powerful console day one. Best of all, it's all from Cerny and thus, legitimate. My only fear is that they rush it out in less than a year from now which I truly hope that they DON'T do. I'm hoping for September or November 2020.

Price can be a concern though....they got away with it this gen by adding on the Pro and X consoles as an option....but if a PS5 is like 500 bucks or something that'll tamper sales a little bit. I wouldn't think it'd be insane, but going over 400 is usually a danger (wasn't PS3 pretty pricey? I forget exactly)

It might be more ok if they're releasing everything for both systems for a while, similar to MS's backwards compatibility strategies, but we'll see.

[XxGamerXx]

The ps5 will launch close to the next xbox in late 2020 and it will be 400 dollars

By that time parts are cheaper and it will be a hot item and sell a ton at 400

The next xbox will come around the same time and it will be a bit more beefier console in terms of specs and I think MS needs to do no more than 450 but could be 500

[countryboy]

As I said in the other thread, just tell me when, where, and how much.

[LambertandHam]

Happy to see them going to SSD.

[mestevo]

Las Vegas Raider PSLs probably demolished my budget for this, but good stuff so far.

[peter42O]

Quote: Originally Posted by mgoblue

Price can be a concern though....they got away with it this gen by adding on the Pro and X consoles as an option....but if a PS5 is like 500 bucks or something that'll tamper sales a little bit. I wouldn't think it'd be insane, but going over 400 is usually a danger (wasn't PS3 pretty pricey? I forget exactly) It might be more ok if they're releasing everything for both systems for a while, similar to MS's backwards compatibility strategies, but we'll see.

Maybe but I doubt it. If the games are there especially day one or early on, people will buy it. I spent $400 on PS4, eventually sold it for $200 and then bought Pro for $400 so I technically spent $600 total. Only difference was the three year gap in between. Would much rather spend $500+ day one to have a powerful console from the beginning especially since the games could take advantage of the specs from the beginning instead of a few years into the generation.

PlayStation 3 was $600 for the best console but they like Xbox 360 had multiple SKU's at different prices. It was just more expensive. The bigger problem was the Cell processor. The launch was equally as bad as Microsoft's Xbox One launch.

I don't mind the one console high price approach. In fact, I prefer it. For example, say Xbox 4 low-end console is $400 and the high end is $600, yeah, it's cheaper but if the specs are considerably lower, how long until the buyer regrets the purchase? Maybe if it's just a random consumer but a gamer will probably regret it a few months later especially when every game that gets shown will be displayed via the high-end console.

I'm not expecting Sony's PS4 exclusives to be cross-gen. What I am expecting is those games to get a PS5 update/patch at launch or shortly after launch but we'll see.