Sunday, May 31st 2020
Sony to Reveal PlayStation 5 on June 4, Console Won't be Cheaper than Xbox Series X
Sony Interactive Entertainment is expected to hold a virtual launch event on June 4, 2020, where it is expected to finally reveal the design, packaging, inclusions, initial exclusive game library, and more importantly price, of the next-generation PlayStation 5 game console. The event is scheduled for 1 PM PDT, and will be live-streamed. In related news, in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, CEO Jim Ryan confirmed that the PlayStation 5 won't be cheap, at least not cheaper than the rumored sub-$500 pricing of the Xbox Series X. "I think the best way that we can address this is by providing the best possible value proposition that we can. I don't necessarily mean lowest price. Value is a combination of many things. In our area it means games, it means number of games, depth of games, breadth of games, quality of games, price of games... all of these things and how they avail themselves of the feature set of the platform," he said.
Sources:
CNET, GamesIndustry.biz
17 Comments on Sony to Reveal PlayStation 5 on June 4, Console Won't be Cheaper than Xbox Series X
Here it's more of the same, a Renoir plus a mid range next gen GPU (especially for Sony).
I mean, what kind of gaming PC do you get for $500, not counting the display?
Second of all, I imagine Sony would like to not sell the consoles at a loss, like it's been said above.
Third, we don't really have much information on RDNA2 yet (it's not available anywhere), and saying that its computing power is over 10 TFLOPS (which, supposing we are talking about single precision, is trading blows with the RX 64, the Radeon VII, the 1080 Ti or the Titan XP) isn't exactly useful either, so I would hold judgement on the GPU.
And fourth, well, TheLostSwede already said it...
MS lost money on each 360 sold, until product revisions made it profitable. Of course they had to replace a lot of launch 360s at their own expense too.
Toshiba XG5-P KXG50PNV2T04, 2TB. I think that could be a copy/paste product info listing mistake though. That model had a few glitches though apparently while gaming it could throttle rather badly is what a review said on it. Really even so I think I could fix that issue I'm hoping by just tweaking the GPU's max core clock speed and/or adjusting the CPU's briefly so it doesn't boost quite as high and the overall PC runs a bit cooler it's clearly a heat issue. Comes with 2x8GB of DDR4 2400MHz as well supports up to (2x32GB) 64GB. I think the listing price was probably a mistake and was meant to be $1000's most likely. I'll be stoked if I get at that price and it works fine. Hopefully that SSD really is the 2TB one that alone would justify the cost because I could jack that one for my desktop and replace it with a cheaper smaller sized M.2 for the laptop. Even if it's a actual 512GB SSD if it's a HP one that PCIe x4 I might still swipe and it put in a cheaper 128GB to 256GB M.2 in place of it.