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[AJUMP23]

Good idea, price increase is a mistake.

 

[SkylineRKR]

I bought the S for 299 in 2020 and unexpectedly got my PS5 DE a few weeks later at launch (I signed up for the early 2021 wave). And when I booted up the PS5 I thought it was kind of ridiculous the PS5 was only 100 more. So good luck selling this at 350, the XSS barely left stores at 299 or even 249. Its always been available and even discounted on Amazon etc.

Its a good system mind you, but a PS5 DE is far more powerful and has double the amount of storage. And for GP, well, you need that storage. Though you can offload quite a bit to an external drive, even some enhanced games.

 

[scydrex]

Exactly, people might just be seeing Starfield for the first time and want the cheapest entry price.

No thanks. Would prefer to get the 512gb for less than $300. I have seen it in $250 in my country for a while now.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

I bought the S for 299 in 2020 and unexpectedly got my PS5 DE a few weeks later at launch (I signed up for the early 2021 wave). And when I booted up the PS5 I thought it was kind of ridiculous the PS5 was only 100 more. So good luck selling this at 350, the XSS barely left stores at 299 or even 249. Its always been available and even discounted on Amazon etc.

Its a good system mind you, but a PS5 DE is far more powerful and has double the amount of storage. And for GP, well, you need that storage. Though you can offload quite a bit to an external drive, even some enhanced games.

It's an inexcusable marketing move unless they have inside info that the PS5 Slim will be 500 rather than 400.

If the PS5 Slim sells for 400, it'll be hard to sell either the XSS Carbon or the XSX.

Really would love to understand Microsoft's thinking on this. They can't be trying to drive more XSX sales, this would be a bad way of pushing people to the higher tier model.

 

[onnextflix5]

Would have been a better idea to sell current series s at 249 and sell the new one at 299, it’s not like ms can’t afford it,