Monday, June 29th 2020
Sony PlayStation 5 Hardware Pricing and Availability Leaked: €100 Premium for BD Drive
Prices of Sony's various PlayStation 5 components just hit the web, thanks a Cowcotland report citing IronManPS5, a source with high reliability with PlayStation 5 leaks. To begin with, the standard PlayStation 5 console, which includes one Dual Sense controller, is priced at 499€. This console includes a Blu-ray disc drive so you could keep a physical library of all your games. Additional Dual Sense controllers can be bought for 59€ a piece. The PlayStation 5 Digital edition, which lacks an optical drive and makes you rely entirely on your Internet connections to get games, is priced a whopping 20% less, at 399€.
Other hardware accessories include an elegant recharging station for the Dual Shock controllers at 29€, which can recharge up to two controllers at a time; a wireless Media Remote accessory that lets you use your PS5 as a streaming entertainment device for your TV, priced at 29€, and an HD stereo web-camera for 59€. One accessory that stands out is the Pulse 3D wireless gaming headset for the PS 5, by Sony, which uses a high quality audio setup from Sony, priced at 179€. The PlayStation 5 family is expected to be available from November 14, 2020.
Sources:
Cowcotland, IronManPS5 (Twitter)
Other hardware accessories include an elegant recharging station for the Dual Shock controllers at 29€, which can recharge up to two controllers at a time; a wireless Media Remote accessory that lets you use your PS5 as a streaming entertainment device for your TV, priced at 29€, and an HD stereo web-camera for 59€. One accessory that stands out is the Pulse 3D wireless gaming headset for the PS 5, by Sony, which uses a high quality audio setup from Sony, priced at 179€. The PlayStation 5 family is expected to be available from November 14, 2020.
64 Comments on Sony PlayStation 5 Hardware Pricing and Availability Leaked: €100 Premium for BD Drive
Add MB/PSU/Case/ and you're in €1.2K price territory.
My God, we PC gamers are getting so screwed :(
I mean, the console is, what?, the price of 6-7 games? And standard editions at that.Closed vs open configuration. Apples to oranges.
It's not that you're getting screwed, it's just that both distribution and support for consoles is much, much cheaper.
PC gamer has to pay full production costs + profit margins on PC parts then he has to pay game publisher + distributer (Valve/Epic etc.) to buy games from them unless he pirates them.
I'm OK with paying a bit extra for freedom PC is giving me, but as things stand right now PC's GPU equivalent to XBox X' GPU (aka 2080S) costs $200-300 more than complete XBox X package.
That's plain crazy. AMD/Intel/Ngreedia are pushing profit margins on DIY PC builds so high that DIY PC gaming builds might become a luxury only rich can afford.
I can definitely see the future where most of PC gamers migrate to streaming solutions and consoles because of pricing.
The bussiness model is also just so different. The cpu/gpu that you are buying off the shelves got the R&D and marketing included in the price. Meanwhile game consoles are often being sold at a loss. Yhea you are buying hardware, but there's a shitload of software that comes with it, and that's where a big part of their money is coming from. When you buy a cpu/gpu from AMD/Intel/Nvidia, you don't have to pay for any of the services that they are going to provide you. The money that you gave them then, is the only money that they will see from you until your next uppgrade.
... And I wouldn't conclude that PC gamers are screwed just yet until you're able to do a spreadsheet or edit a video on a console. Even those that claim they "only use their PC for gaming" in reality, use it for more than just gaming. Even if those uses are just the banal or mundane tasks we do everyday on a PC, you're still not able to do them on a console. Once you're able to use Microsoft Word or file your taxes on an unmodified console is when I'll start feeling "screwed".
However, the PC gaming industry should remain viable provided that there is a healthy and reasonably priced mid to upper mid level market. In which case it doesn't necessarily matter if the high end of the spectrum is ~$1.2K or more if the performance level is reasonable at the ~$300 to ~$500 range (I'm referring to video cards alone here).
On the other hand, consoles are indeed alternatives to PC gaming and to a lesser extent so too are game streaming services.
I'll also point out that PC are also popular because they can do real work. Not everyone fires up a PC only for gaming.
Who knows, maybe Microsoft will decide to make the console OS accessible, it's running windows anyway...