Why even do this now, or at launch day or whenever? Is it Sony trying to make the PS5 seem cheap or? People don't even know what the consoles include or cost yet. Moreover, if you wanna think about it with the mainstream budget friendly mindset, do it a couple years past launch when enough people actually have also bought into the consoles, not that many people get them at launch in the grand scheme of things. I imagine with $1000 or less you'll be able to get a way more capable system, with the bonus of not paying subscriptions for basic features, having near infinite backwards compatibility (and not even just PC but also consoles with emulation, at least the generations they actually had exclusives the PC could miss) and all kinds of truly free (not subscription enabled) games and mods and non gaming capabilities on top without locking yourself to a first party's own ecosystem (including hardware accessories, there's so much godness on PC for enthusiasts on this or that, not just a single brand/model of a flight stick or VR kit or whatever other crap but whatever you want and need tailored to yourself) they should be paying you to use as it benefits them so much they really should make the hardware way cheaper for the benefit. I mean, any household needs a nice computing device for other office type tasks (or other specific to the household tasks based on hobbies like development or video or image editing or even playing that one f2p dota or pubg clone, or streaming or whatever) so it's not that much extra to make it a decent gaming PC on top (I mean, if you weren't gonna buy some slow ass sorry pos PC or tablet from craigslist but a nice modern device with all that stuff such companies overcharge for when you can build better).