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Releasing November 7
- 699 USD
- 699 GBP
- 799 Euro
- 119,980 Yen
Main updates are:
- Larger GPU
- Advanced Ray Tracing
- AI Upscaling technology: PSSR
Results for user:
- Get fidelity mode graphics, with “performance mode” performance.
From someone who is all-in on Sony stuff (PS4 & PS4 Pro, PSVR1 & 2), this is tone deaf. Too much money for 5 Pro with not enough to show for it. Let alone disc drive and stand are extra too. Bizarre.
Disc drive I can understand, with the push for digital, but vertical stand? That’s just cheap.
It feels like a weird time to launch it too. 60million are still on PS4. This is just going to fragment things even more for gamers and developers alike.
If I was buying a PS5 today? I’d buy the more powerful one.
But will I be upgrading from my 2020 PS5? Not unless it breaks.
The games look great, but not noticably greater than what the PS5 already does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, just get a PS5 slim? should be fine if you don’t want the disc, or buy used PS5. My launch PS5 is still doing really well. But I stopped playing any multiplayer game on it and stopped PS Plus.
Agreed. I’m a lifetime PS fan going all the way back to nearly 30 years but Sony has completely turned me off to the idea of ever buying another console from them again. My PS5 (disc version) is probably my biggest financial regret of the last two years
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I’ve used the disc drive exactly twice for games in the last four years, but I’m happy it was there.
The second time, in fact, was just this last week because I was able to get Star Wars: Outlaws on disc for half off (some weird QVC deal a couple weeks ago).
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It also is nice for that random night where you have a physical DVD to watch.
My friends wanted to do a Saw movie marathon, and one of them had all the discs. The PS5 was the only device I had that could play them.
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Technology sure is great, isn’t it?
I mean, I have a ps5 since a very long time. But I just haven’t seen any good exclusive yet.
I was really happy with Ratchet and Clank, Spider-Man 2, and Final Fantasy XVI. Although I think all are on PC now.
Who wouldn’t want to pay nearly 1k EUR (incl. stand+disc drive) to play 6 year old PS4 games with slightly better performance?
Sony’s been tone deaf since at least the 2011 hack, possibly since the price and architecture of the PS3.
Being “all-in” on Playstation at this point is like defending an abuser.