The PS5 Pro will retail for $699, but who will buy this console at such a high price?

Lightning771h ago(Edited 1h ago)

There’s a short term issue and a long term issue.

Short term issue is the lack of games showing off the hardware’s enhanced capabilities. We don’t know Sony’s immediate Road map but it seems they’ll have another State Of Play on the 19th of this month showing third party and indie but no first party. VGA’s they have to announce something. Bends New LS game? Fairgames? I think Ghosts 2 is a spring 2026 title if it doesn’t show show up at VGA’s.

The long term issue is how big of a leap will PS6 be? They probably have 3 to 4 years until the new console releases but how big of a jump will it actually be? The Pro model is a reworked model with all the newest bells and whistles so how big of a leap will the PS6 actually have?

The PS4 pro came out in 16 and 4 years later the PS5 came out and MS was touting the One X then 3 years later the series X came out. The results were 4k 60 for cross gen stuff, TFlops meant nothing the Ssd’s were over blown certain games are still 30. The overall capabilities are still barely being tapped in right now.

This gen really woke me up to overblown promises of consoles. Going to a new gen in the next handful of years I’ll be very skeptical.