PlayStation 5: Thread 04

[Neon Ignition]

I wonder how much they spent developing it and if it was enough to have paid to bring Blood & Truth to PSVR2

[Cassius_Smoke]

40 million sold. Pretty much on par with the PS4 in the same timescale.
Which concidering we had a pandemic and a manufacturing shortage is pretty impressive.

https://sonyinteractive.com/en/playstation-5-surpasses-40-million-in-sales/

[Neon Ignition]

Nuts success, especially given the staggering heavy lifting the PS4 is doing with that Top 40 PS5 games list. Might be... 6 PS5 games with 2 of those being remakes of PS3/PS4 titles?

Glad consoles are holding their own for another generation. Sad the software side of things is dragging its feet so deep into this gen

[Brad]

First console gen I've not bought since SNES era. My age has something to do with it but also it's not a compelling generation.

[speedlolita]

Looks like the price has dropped on disc consoles to £399.99, seeing this reflected at EE & Argos so far. If the revised hardware has no disc drive as the rumours suggest this might not be a bad time to latch on.

[nonny]

Looks like the price has dropped on disc consoles to £399.99, seeing this reflected at EE & Argos so far. If the revised hardware has no disc drive as the rumours suggest this might not be a bad time to latch on.

Great price... I am a bit annoyed they haven't dropped the digital version by £80 as well as I would jump on that...

[MartyG]

Looks like the price has dropped on disc consoles to £399.99, seeing this reflected at EE & Argos so far. If the revised hardware has no disc drive as the rumours suggest this might not be a bad time to latch on.

It's a smart move at a time when your competitor is increasing prices - it's a £50 drop in real terms given it went up £30 not so long ago, but still, £50 isn't insignificant.

[speedlolita]

I'm hedging my bets a little, I want to see if a new hardware reveal is coming first because if the rumours are true and the disc drive is going then I'll be scooping up a disc console.

[MartyG]

Is there not supposed to be an optional drive along with this rumoured slim revision?

[nonny]

Is there not supposed to be an optional drive along with this rumoured slim revision?

Dunno but just been looking on Amazon and they now refer to the current model as the "PlayStation 5 Standard Console"... so sounds like something else is coming.

[Neon Ignition]

Seems odd.

If a retailer wants to clear stock ahead of a new model then why drop the price as the PS5 literally sells itself at the moment, just don't restock
I'd understand reducing the Digital Edition more as it's outright redundant once Slim lands and won't shift at all when the disc version is only £10 dearer

[speedlolita]

Is there not supposed to be an optional drive along with this rumoured slim revision?

That is the rumour indeed, but I'd prefer an all in one kind of deal.

[wakka]

Seems odd.

If a retailer wants to clear stock ahead of a new model then why drop the price as the PS5 literally sells itself at the moment, just don't restock
I'd understand reducing the Digital Edition more as it's outright redundant once Slim lands and won't shift at all when the disc version is only £10 dearer

It's a Sony mandated price drop rather than retailer stock clearance.

We can only guess at their motivation but I'd suggest it's to do with what their console line will look like later this year.

My supposition is that the new slim will launch at £399. The disc add-on will probably retail for between £99 and £129.

They can then keep selling the original digital edition for maybe £339 or £349, possibly until they sell through existing stock, possibly longer (Apple have done this for years with older iPhones and it seems to work well for them). With that one you save £50 or £60 but you compromise by getting the old, bigger design and no option of adding a disc drive later.

It's then hard to see where the old disc system falls in this line-up. Positioning it at a premium price over the slim seems strange considering it's the old design, and charging, say, £429 for it makes the disc add on for the slim at £99+ seem like a rip-off. But positioning it lower than £399 will make the slim seem poor value and leave the old digital edition in a strange position where you have to cut the price to a point where you might be losing money.

Better to grab some goodwill, increase the playerbase and sell through stock of the gen 1 disc machine now, so as to clear the way for a simplified line-up come Autumn/Christmas.

Just my two cents!

[Neon Ignition]

That makes sense, presumably at a guess we should have our eyes set on September

[nonny]

If the new unit is smaller then I still don't get why they don't offer the same discount on the digital console now.

The current console is huge and pretty ugly so if a new one is slimmer and also digital only then most customers who want a digital only console may as well save up the extra for that.

They might as well drop the digital pricing now to £309 which makes it really bloody attractive against the new Series S 1tb model at £299 and let the war commence.