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
As for the price, consoles have always been cheaper to own around launch, nothing new here. A couple of years and gaps will start to shrink, as always.
In this case, Sony and MS have adopted the “PC way” of digital storefronts. You can get most any title, and there are flash sales and discounts randomly. You can often get the game digitally for prices similar to just getting a used disc. It’s probably the digital price that helps set the disc price on eBay and Gamestop.
Sadly, the disc copies of many games are almost worthless, at least right out of the box. Seems like most any game is greeted with GBs of patches as soon as you insert the disc. Maybe that would be a good article to write—using a modern console with no internet connection and only game discs. Is it even possible? It was on last gen, but I think we’ve slowly moved away from those days with XBoxOne and PS4.
Using classic windows on the xsx would ruin the whole point of them making a console, since that would mean that steam epic game store etc would be available and they would barely make any profit (if any at all). You would also lose all the optimisations it's getting for being a console, and you would get people getting angry because x software doesn't like the exotic memory configuration of the xsx where the cpu can only use 3.5 GB, and the latency being higher than ddr.
From the moment that you slap mainline windows on a product, people are expecting it to do everything that classic windows can do, if it's limited in any kind of way *cough* windows RT *Cough*, it sucks, and the pitchforks are out.
But more importantly is that no matter how you put it, that PC is a way more capable machine than any consoles will ever be. The costs are well justified for both.You can be sure of the fact that they know each other's pricing ages before we will.
CPUs however are looking pretty good. $200 bought you a mainstrem CPU that could handle anything you threw at it 15 years ago, it continues to do so today.
And it gets better when you realize you don't need just the console package, you'll have to buy some extras as well :DSo you're saying we shouldn't buy RDNA2 for PC, because it's not made for that. Will keep that in mind.Tesla didn't get pissed at anyone. They hired Jim Keller to make them a custom chip. It was all out in the open.
Some friends that had contact with the domain tell the self-driving chips are usually a problem because they suck hundreds of watts to operate. That just won't fly on an electric car. It's more likely Nvidia couldn't/wouldn't hit power draw requirements that drew Tesla to come up with a custom solution.
If you like multitasking and hardware freedom then cool PCMR
Sure.
Meanwhile I can buy destiny on disc with all expansions for $20 pretty much anywhere its still available. But if I want it digitally (which I did) it was $60 bucks.
Digital is not the deal maker people tend to think it is and physical games tend to go on sale more regularly and drop significantly in price as they age. Digital isn't guaranteed to do either. Then there's the fact that you have an entire 3rd party market to buy AND sell your games on your own.
Digital only is a terrible idea until digital IS ACTUALLY CHEAPER than physical across the board (used sales would really seal it as the only option you need) but I don't see that happening... Well... Ever.