From Circana analyst Matt Piscatella’s BlueSky account:
PlayStation 5 Pro accounted for 19% of total PlayStation 5 units sold in the month and 28% of dollars. Launch month dollar sales of PlayStation 5 Pro were more than 50% higher than the November 2016 launch month sales of PlayStation 4 Pro, while units were 12% lower.
Not surprised.
People buy product, get excited for next product. Works every time.Would still choose a Steam Deck over this anyway.
Or a PC
Still? Is it powerful enough to run the latest games without tweaking?
Not criticizing, I genuinely want one, but tech advances quickly and it seems everyone is jumping to the PC handheld market (and I am glad for it).
Like 98% of them, yes.
You mean on the small screen, right?
People’s use cases seem to be wildly different from mine. I mainly use it in TV mode as a couch gaming machine. For most modern 3d games you have to turn graphics quality down substantially that way.
Depends, I played Yakuza 8 with no issues ok launch and the newer stuff like the Ally haven’t had a significant jump in performance.
I’m not sure this tells us much, since the first buyers are usually the ones who don’t care what it costs.
The big question is how long can it maintain the higher price, once the enthusiasts all have theirs.
Considering that the standard PS5 is still selling for higher than its launch price 4 years later (despite still facing challenges building up an exclusive library to justify the cost), I’d say that people are just dumb and will pay any price to have their shiny gaming console.
I kind of get that. I stopped buying PlayStations when the PS3 was so hard to get, for so long.
I’ve loved every PlayStation I’ve owned.
Sony saw how much money people were willing to pay scalpers for the PS5 at launch and decided to cut the middleman this time
Well, this all but guarantees that we’ll see more ridiculously high priced consoles in the future, too. Good going, folks!
Meanwhile in Sweden, it is 944 USD.
does that include a VAT?
Yes but even with 25% VAT, it should have been 875 USD. And in other countries, it is 800€ (830 USD). Amazon.de sells it for 800€(sold by Amazon) and even delivers it to Sweden(for 15€). Amazon.se doesnt have the ps5 pro for some reason.
I think Sony was willing to take a small loss in Eurozone, so that it can have a nice round price(800€).
PS5 Pro is a strait up rip off. Only suckers would buy this.
Consoles exist to grift, now they are realising they might not need to sell the actual hardware at a loss anymore.
Yeah but the consoles still have to be cheap enough for people like me not making the jump to PC gaming.
So I’d say they have to be careful about the hardware price compared to a PC.
Nothing beats the ease of use of a console, but I can tell you that if prices starts getting close, I’d pribably buy a PC that I can use for way more than gaming and watching movies.
Honestly I have to disagree with consoles being ease of use these days, especially if you like really long sessions.
I have to restart games or reboot the console way more often than I feel should be necessary at this point.
And installing from discs takes forever if you even do physical, but then you need the disc in to run it for whatever dumbfuck anti-piracy reason. I won’t pay for digital, at that point you might as well be on pc, it’s the same thing, and since this generation is probably the last with physical media, I’m out…
It seems the model of subsidized hardware is coming to an end.
New semiconductor fab nodes are becoming more and more expensive. And on the flip side improvements in graphics are becoming more computationally difficult while being less substantial compared to earlier console generations.
PC gaming has also somewhat revitalised over the past ~10 years and more and more PCs are benefiting from “good enough” iGPUs (10 years ago even top iGPUs could not be used for even more moderately demanding games).
Oh yeah, they will still have “cheap” ones, but they will make these “Pro” versions more and more expensive.
PCs are a lot easier to use than they used to be, you don’t have to mess around like you used to, just the initial setup (which is done for you if you buy a prebuilt one anyway).
But yeah, the initial cost puts people off, even though the long term savings are incredible. Ignoring the cheaper cost of games, just from the console online subscriptions over 5 years, you are saving over $400 (and the last generation of consoles was 8 years, so that’s well over $600 of savings).
I’d highly recommend anyone tries PC, you have so much more freedom than you do on a console. There’s a reason the PC market share is growing so fast.
I’ve enjoyed how I can still play the games I first got on my PC were increased resolution and fps by just going to the settings instead of begging for devs to push an update. Also not being rendered unplayable on new hardware like on my older consoles. For longevity my PC games have aged really nicely compared to the games I got for consoles over the generations.
Well no one is saving for retirement anymore. Climate change will take care of that. Live it up.
Hey hey, some of us here are hoping for the 2060s and 70s to still be nice enough!
