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Interfectum
Member
No one should be doubting Henderson at this point, imo. He clearly has some legit contacts.
Mr Moose
Member
Does that mean it isn't 12 channels any more? Or did they just do something with the chips?
MadPanda
Banned
That's what no competition gives you. Sony is dominating in Europe so they can do such things, just like when they raised console prices in Europe but not in the USA.
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SEGAvangelist
Member
Wait, you have to buy a stand to place it vertically now? That's nuts.
Majormaxxx
Member
I like it
Crayon
Member
I knew someone was going to say this.
Okay now who brings theirs to their job at the coal mine?
Mr Moose
Member
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Day one
Gobjuduck
Banned
the stand is sold separately?
$30 stand
$50 dollar price increase for digital
$80 dollar disk drive
to get a new digital ps5 to equate a day one physical ps5, you are paying $60 more. to buy discs that will be useless by an all digital next gen.
this seems like a wasted opportunity from sony.
$30 stand
$50 dollar price increase for digital
$80 dollar disk drive
to get a new digital ps5 to equate a day one physical ps5, you are paying $60 more. to buy discs that will be useless by an all digital next gen.
this seems like a wasted opportunity from sony.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
???
Is it industry standard now that hard drives must be swappable?? When did that start happening? Never heard of that feature before.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Yes. As the press release states, both current models will be sold through and this new smaller one will become the new standard. Until the next inevitable revision in 2026.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
Someone on reddit made a table with all the PS5 SKUs and their pricing at various points in time (e.g. launch window, when it got the price bump in all regions other than the US, and now with the new models announcement).
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HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
It would be a melt down of epic proportions if Sony went away from the M.2 add in SSD and rightfully so
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
She's slim and can't stand on her own . . .
ChuckeRearmed
Member
So they have increased the price for Digital Version. Considering that the hardware hasn't changed much, makes me wonder how much Pro will cost then.
diffusionx
Gold Member
I'd want to see it in person, I don't see where the better look that some people are saying is coming from.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Should have bumped the price up some more. Some poor people will have saved enough for it
It lowers the cost to Sony
But really - it's far from the first such refreshes that raised the price - it's just the first to actually make disc-drive optional.
And I am about 95% sure they raised the price in response to MS raising theirs. It makes the PS5 look less premium if it's only 50$ more than the bargain bin box noone wants to buy.
Sony made HDD swappable since 2000.
It may not be standard with rest of the industry (it's not - MS has been all over the Map and Nintendo would sooner see the world burn than allow you to swap built-in storage) but with Sony - it's been this way for 23 years - so yes, it's pretty damn standard.
Celcius
°Temp. member
Sony continues the trend of slim consoles being uglier than the originals.
Charging extra for a vertical stand is unfortunate. Having the digital price go up $50 is unfortunate. Will gladly keep the OG PS5 that I already own.
Also, can anyone confirm that you can still expand the internal storage in these?
Charging extra for a vertical stand is unfortunate. Having the digital price go up $50 is unfortunate. Will gladly keep the OG PS5 that I already own.
Also, can anyone confirm that you can still expand the internal storage in these?
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Yea but now you can take the drive off when people visit the house so - win win?
Once again the DE looks sexy and the the one with a disc drive looks weird.
squarealex
Member
Someone on reddit made a table with all the PS5 SKUs and their pricing at various points in time (e.g. launch window, when it got the price bump in all regions other than the US, and now with the new models announcement).
Poor Japan.
Sony playing with Fire... many japanese can leave to PC. Steam in Japan is bigger at each years...
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MadPanda
Banned
Someone on reddit made a table with all the PS5 SKUs and their pricing at various points in time (e.g. launch window, when it got the price bump in all regions other than the US, and now with the new models announcement).
And I though Europeans got screwed.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
It was nothing special back then. They just went with several discrete smaller flash chips connected in parallel to get the bandwidth they needed. Problem is that if you also go with bigger flash chips you go up in storage a lot and it would have cost too much. Period.
Mr Moose
Member
60,000 Japanese Yen is $400.
Woopah
Member
The mobile market is indeed big Japan just like everywhere else, but the console market there is also huge.
This year the PS5 will sell more in Japan than almost any year managed by the PSP or PSV, Sony don't need a handheld.
Having said that, Sony's situation in Europe is very different to Japan, and will not become like Japan.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
Hmm... this configuration makes sense with regards to the new 1TB storage capacity, right? Also didn't know about the redundancy flash chip, very smart by Sony here.
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X-Wing
Member
They ship with the horizontal stand. Looks like this one had horizontal in mind.
Horseganador
Member
Mr.Phoenix
Member
This makes no sense, if you want all that, then just buy the PS5 with ODD bundle that is still priced at the same price the OG ODD PS5 cost. $499.
If you are buying a digital version, not only does that mean you probably dont want to get discs (obviously) there is now at least the option for you to be able to make that a disc using PS5 in the future if you want.
And I don't get people, you have thin sony is running a charity? They can price this shit at what they are pricing it because people are buying them. If they find that sales are not as good as tey anticipate, they would drop the prices.
ReBurn
Gold Member
I mean, you may put your consoles on the shelf to collect dust, but I put mine to work. Depending on what I'm playing I'm taking either a PS4 slim, Series S or Switch with me on the road multiple times per year and they take some abuse. So durability is Important. I can put my switch in a rugged case and it's good, but the PS4 and Series S have to ride in a padded backpack. So snark is just completely misplaced.
Mr Moose
Member
Wait was there 8?Hmm... this configuration makes sense with regards to the new 1TB storage capacity, right? Also didn't know about the redundancy flash chip, very smart by Sony here.
Edit: There was 6, right?
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skit_data
Member
This is a pretty good size reduction actually, especially in terms of width (not counting the disc drive-lump)
X-Wing
Member
That’s not true…
Interfectum
Member
That horizontal stand.... lol wtf.
itsjustJEFF
Member
Still looks like a router, just 30% smaller now... whats up with that $50 price hike?!? An extra 200GB don't cost $50.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
Yeah, I double checked and it seems it's 6 indeed so that twitter user was wrong.
The GDDR6 memory is the one split in 8 chips.
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Gobjuduck
Banned
the stand should be included. let’s not lick blue boots here.
mansoor1980
Gold Member
That horizontal stand.... lol wtf.
the ps5 slim costs between 450-550 usd around the world. What do you think the ps5 pro will cost if it come out in the fall of 2024?
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
I said months ago in the Pro thread $599 and honestly it could be more
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Sony hired the OG Switch kickstand designer Nintendo fired.
That horizontal stand.... lol wtf.
I mean WTF…
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Mr Moose
Member
It could mean they went with 8 this time though right?Yeah, I double checked and it seems it's 6 indeed so that twitter user was wrong.