Potential PlayStation 5 pricing rumours

[AndreiArgeanu]

Rumours of the pricing of the PS5 and the accessories have been posted on twitter by @IronManPS5 who is notorious among the PS5 fan community for offering up numerous leaks and rumours about the Sony hardware. Additionally, former Xbox executive also mentions that the price won't be higher than 500$
 

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	US$	UK£	EU€	JP¥	Global launch	Japan launch
PS5 Blu-ray console	$499	£449	€499	¥49,980	Nov 20	Nov 14
PS5 Digital Edition	$399	£349	€399	¥44,980	Nov 20	Nov 14
DualSense controller	$59.99	£54.99	€59.99	¥5,980	Nov 20	Nov 14
DualSense charging station	$29.99	£24.99	€29.99	¥3,600	Nov 20	Nov 14
PS5 HD camera	$59.99	£54.99	€59.99	¥5,980	Nov 20	Nov 14
Pulse 3D headset	$159	£129	€179	¥18,000	Nov 20	Nov 14
PS5 remote control	$29.99	£24.99	€29.99	¥3,600	Nov 20	Nov 14
PS5 "vertical stand"	$24.99	£16.99	€19.99	¥2,280	Nov 20	Nov 14
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales	$39.99	£29.99	€39.99	-	Nov 20	-

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https://twitter.com/albertpenell

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The pricing does seem to be quite low, especially for the digital edition. Of course this information must be taken with a grain of salt since I wouldn't be surprised if the price for the console would shoot up another 100$ or so. The headset also seems to be possibly too expensive in my opinion, however it could offer exclusive technologies and features since in the Road to PS5 video they spent a significant amount of time on audio and how it would be significantly improved on the PlayStation 5. Though all the other prices do seem to be in line,

 

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[gloop]

I'm calling bs on this.

 

Digital edition at $450 and disc version at $600.

[Jumballi]

5 minutes ago, gloop said:

I'm calling bs on this.

 

Digital edition at $450 and disc version at $600.

That blu ray drive won't be valued so much, but it will be the preferred and more popular version at launch. The question is how cheap do you make a premium version that people know the value of.
4k blu ray drives cost $20 to manufacture at scale, but usually people pay around $80-120 for one to connect to their TV, so there's no way it's a $150 difference

[Statik]

I was going to call be on the fact that no controllers will ever be that cheap, until I did a conversion and realized that's $80 CAD. :(

[Gaires]

1 hour ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

DualSense charging station  $29.99  £24.99  €29.99  ¥3,600

I hope we can charge the controllers via USB, because that's god damn expensive and will probably need it's own cord anyway.

[Master Disaster]

£30 for the new Spider Man game? Yeah, no.

 

As for the rest, it's probably not that far off.

 

Its they really do launch at that price I might pre order one then sit on it for 12 months. We all know how much V1 Firmware units sell for once a few updates are released.

[Commodus]

48 minutes ago, Gaires said:

I hope we can charge the controllers via USB, because that's god damn expensive and will probably need it's own cord anyway.

You definitely can.  That station is just to make charging more elegant.

[Doobeedoo]

It will be in expected console range.

Not sure why some look it as some immense big deal about it if it's $100 delta difference or something in the end. They're so cheap really, people buy 60,100$+ dollar games, pay for those online subscriptions and DLCs as wll as MTX too. Few hundred dollars for a console to last number of years is nothing. 

[SavageNeo]

well xobx x has much better specs than ps5 so lets hope that ps5 is very well priced or some new plebs just will buy it

[AndreiArgeanu]

54 minutes ago, Gaires said:

I hope we can charge the controllers via USB, because that's god damn expensive and will probably need it's own cord anyway.

I think the dual sense controllers use USB C so that is probably the case. However I have a feeling the cable included in the box will be a USB C to USB C one since the ps5 has a USB C in the front that won't get a lot of use initially. 

[AndreiArgeanu]

2 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

well xobx x much better specs than ps5

Much better? No. Yes the xbox series X does have better specs but not significantly better to a point where it will make a difference. Though we'll have to see. 

[Commodus]

1 minute ago, SavageNeo said:

well xobx x has much better specs than ps5 so lets hope that ps5 is very well priced or some new plebs just will buy it

I wouldn't say "much better."  It has a somewhat faster GPU, but the PS5's storage is considerably faster.  And besides, most games will be aimed at both platforms -- you'll only see what a console can do if a game is designed as an exclusive.

[SavageNeo]

Just now, AndreiArgeanu said:

Much better? No. Yes the xbox series X does have better specs but not significantly better to a point where it will make a difference. Though we'll have to see. 

well the ps5 has little over 10 thflops and xbox x has almost 12 tflops. that is 20% better performance just in gpu. it has better cpu also. 

 

ps 5 has rx 5700 XT like gpu and ps 5 rtx 2080 super+ like gpu

[seon123]

7 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

well the ps5 has little over 10 thflops and xbox x has almost 12 tflops. that is 20% better performance just in gpu. it has better cpu also. 

 

ps 5 has rx 5700 XT like gpu and ps 5 rtx 2080 super+ like gpu

You aren't judging the consoles' performance based on the computing power, right...? That's something that clueless tech "journalists" do, not something anyone with any knowledge at all should do. Or do you seriously think that the Vega 64 with its 12.66 Tflops of single precision computing power performs better than the 2080 Super, which has 11.1 Tflops?

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, seon123 said:

You aren't judging the consoles' performance based on the computing power, right...?

If you don't compare between different GPU architectures and stay within one, the difference in Tflops will usually also result in that difference of performance.
It's not a perfect metric, but your 9 Tflops RDNA2 Gpu won't outperform a 12Tflops RDNA2 Gpu in any metric bar power consumption.

[seon123]

9 minutes ago, Medicate said:

If you don't compare between different GPU architectures and stay within one, the difference in Tflops will usually also result in that difference of performance.
It's not a perfect metric, but your 9 Tflops RDNA2 Gpu won't outperform a 12Tflops RDNA2 Gpu in any metric bar power consumption.

To a certain degree, yes. But using it to compare against the 5700 XT and 2080 Super is not accurate.

[Tc99]

5 hours ago, Jumballi said:

That blu ray drive won't be valued so much, but it will be the preferred and more popular version at launch. The question is how cheap do you make a premium version that people know the value of.
4k blu ray drives cost $20 to manufacture at scale, but usually people pay around $80-120 for one to connect to their TV, so there's no way it's a $150 difference

This argument has already happened on wan show. the $150 difference is possible due to sony wanting people to download stuff digitally. it doesnt matter what the actual price of the disc thingy is because discouraging physical disc sales means more net no. of licenses sold due to less reselling of the physical copy.

[SteveGrabowski0]

6 hours ago, Jumballi said:

That blu ray drive won't be valued so much, but it will be the preferred and more popular version at launch. The question is how cheap do you make a premium version that people know the value of.
4k blu ray drives cost $20 to manufacture at scale, but usually people pay around $80-120 for one to connect to their TV, so there's no way it's a $150 difference

I could still see there being at least a $100 difference in digital vs disc versions since digital means you can't buy the games used from Gamestop, you can't borrow them from your friend, you can't rent them, and so on, and you have to buy only from PSN. Plus PSN prices are almost never lower than a sale price you can find at Best Buy / Walmart / Amazon / Target / Newegg / Gamestop unless the game is already pretty old. And they know you'll probably buy some of your old PS4 disc games again digitally to play them on your digital only PS5 if they make them $5.99 or $7.99 on PSN.

[AndreiArgeanu]

38 minutes ago, Tc99 said:

This argument has already happened on wan show. the $150 difference is possible due to sony wanting people to download stuff digitally. it doesnt matter what the actual price of the disc thingy is because discouraging physical disc sales means more net no. of licenses sold due to less reselling of the physical copy.

It depends. Since for example the Xbox One S digital edition didn't see a large audience at all, even when bundled with games in contrast with how well other Xbox One variants have sold. Not to mention that lots of PlayStation 4 owners have physical libraries that they may want to play on the PS5 and there's no way Sony is going to offer free conversions of anyone's physical library. The PlayStation store isn't exactly that great, not to mention Sony's spotty past when it comes to security

[Shreyas1]

7 hours ago, gloop said:

I'm calling bs on this.

 

Digital edition at $450 and disc version at $600.

Nah, they wont be so far apart. I'm going for $600 and $550

[soldier_ph]

I think the PS5 is going to be 699 for the Blu-ray editon and 649 for all digital and the Xbox Series X (man I hate their naming scheme) is going to be 799, imo.

[suicidalfranco]

i don't care about the price, if next gen consoles are as noisy as the previous two generations, i'm not buying

[dogwitch]

i say bs

but come on sony.

charge 600 or more.....

 

[Jumballi]

9 hours ago, Tc99 said:

This argument has already happened on wan show. the $150 difference is possible due to sony wanting people to download stuff digitally. it doesnt matter what the actual price of the disc thingy is because discouraging physical disc sales means more net no. of licenses sold due to less reselling of the physical copy.

If anything checked by current trends with all consoles having vastly greater digital sales while still retaining the disk drive, they don’t need to charge more to encourage digital sales. Heck, with the xbox series x looking to undercut Sony, with a disk drive, Sony can’t release has to compete.

[Giganthrax]

Nobody cares if the Xbox Series X is going to have better hardware than the PS5. What matters is the exclusives, and so far Xbox Series X has an underwhelming offering, with all or most of its exclusives being available on PC anyway.