>all the 50YLENTS here think its will be $500
www.gamespot.com/articles/playstation-5-price-prediction-heres-what-we-think/1100-6477901/
My bet is about $570...otherwise Sony's CEO wouldnt warn about the high price if it was only $500...also sure as fuck it wont be $600 coz that scares people
That's not included tax
It's going to be 699$
They're not getting away with $500 in a bad economy.
The price is countless proud black lives taken in the labor needed to produce the industry. That's why i call for #reparations in the form of free PS5 FOR ALL NUBIAN WARRIORS
Give it up, nobody took the bait on twitter
It'll be 899. Screencap me. I'm an arrogant faggot and I know I'm right. It isn't going to be 500 or even 600.
$500 is pretty reasonable. $450 for parts, $50 for labor and shop markup. Sony is probably willing to eat the cost for anything else until the factories reduce the cost due to efficiency. I think they've learned their $599 lesson.
that was 14 years ago, user. what about muh inflation?
I'm not going to buy it unless it has true BC. If it has that, I don't care what the price is.
If it's as powerful as they claim, it's going to be closer to $850 for parts.
You don't get those kind of specs for that price.
Games are still $60. I think they'll find other ways monetize the difference, like that patent that will offer micro transaction solutions we've heard about.
we know the parts from that Bloomberg article. It's $450. The labor and store cuts are questionable, we also don't know how much they are willing to sell at a loss.
No. Those parts cost more like $800+.
Just the SSD alone is going to run you over $100.
It's GPU is about the same as a Radeon RX Vega 56, which'll run you $500.
It's processor is about a Ryzen 7. That's another $350.
Then you have the RAM, motherboard, controller and so on. Probably another $200.
Although they'll buy in bulk and get a discount, and probably sell the console at a loss.
Even if they get a 30% discount (very generous by the way, probably closer to 15%) that is still $800 worth of hardware.
They'll probably also sell it at a loss. But a $300 loss? Not likely. Maybe a $100-150 loss but even that is huge.
Parts are $450 according to this. They get discounts for buying in bulk.
The article has absolutely no sources confirming this information at all. It'd be more accurate to extrapolate the price based on the hardware figures they've released. And that is closer to $800.
You simply cannot buy that kind of hardware for that price. Even if you buy in bulk.
They figure you'll pay for online so that's nearly $1k you'll spend for $800 of 30fps.
Yeah I don't know where the sources are from but it did say it cost $381 to make a PS4 and the sales price is $399. I'm sure that's known info by now and can probably be looked up to verify.
Hardware's cheap to a manufacturer. The goy price you pay in a store is massively inflated to cover all the associated costs, support calls, returns, etc..
OP, listen to me. Normal functioning adults consider pricetags in the mid hundreds to be literal pocket change. Yes, parents are less likely to buy a $600 device for little Billy, but they won't even blink if they're spending it on themselves. Many gamers are now fully grown adults with a pay check (or since Covid is a factor now, $10,000+ simply from sitting at home doing jack shit by collecting extra unemployment). So, my point here is that the system could easily be $800+ and fly off store shelves even several years into launch. The only "problem" is that they need to PROVE to the consumer that what they are paying for is worth the money. Xbox Series X is confirmed to be more powerful than the PS5. Microsoft completely failed this gen, so they won't be courageous enough to jack the price over $500. If Sony is selling a weaker system with worse cooling at a hundred dollar price premium, people are gonna feel like they are being taken advantage of. PS3 had this remarkable Cell processor that could do insane things, but devs were TOO LAZY to use it to its fullest potential. So all that extra horsepower went initialized and the consumer saw games looking better on 360. That's why the "$599" pricepoint was a problem.
Pretty sure the PS4 was sold at a loss. Sony even said it was sold at about a $60 loss. Which means it costs $459 to make each PS4.
Obviously this was years ago at around launch.
Sony aren't the manufacturer though. They're buying the hardware themselves. They buy in bulk and get discounts obviously, but not that big.
Also picture related, it's old now but it shows the manufacturing cost of GPUs. Which is about half of what the GPUs final price is.
If this still applies today, then the manufacturing cost of a PS5s hardware is probably around $600. Then Sony has to buy it (and the manufacture wants a profit so Sony pays more than $600).
That'll be $600 plus $10 monthly subscription to blacked.com
Using Google-fu I'm only getting that $381 price from a teardown by a research firm. If you've got a source on the PS4 price that conflicts please post it.
allthingsd.com
You're right. The hardware cost $381 but the console was still sold at a loss due to the cost of things like shipping and retailers obviously wanting to make profit. The total loss Sony took per sale was about $60.
This. Day one buy for me. If not, I'll put the money toward a new pc and just keep my PS4s.
Sony have an incredibly high attachment rate, I believe it's 10-11 games per PS4 sold. Couple this along with the PS+ subscription base which is huge and the PS Now subscription base going forward and I think they'll happily sell the console at a loss to get people in.
Didn't the PS3 sell at a loss of 200-300 initially?
I mean that thing went to like $250 with games bundled during sales, Yeah they definitely ate some of that cost.
I'd expect it to be around the price of the parts though at launch so I think $500 is probably a good bet. Though if Series X cost $400 I'm sure they'd be willing to eat more of that profit to compete. Maybe $450? Who knows, I wonder who'll price it first.
I'm guessing Sony will price first, Microsoft can eat any cost so they'll likely always match or undercut to try for extra sales
Hope they both drive each other down anyways. Better for me.
Preach my black brother.
at d end consumers win...even tho xbox exclusives suck donkey dick BUT still better than any pc right now
Forza#324354
>$50 for labor and shop markup.
>$50
>and no other cost exists
Why are people like this.
Yeah loss leader is more important in this industry than ever with everything being service based now.
You want to keep the barrier to your real moneymaker (SEN) low and Sony seems to understand that looking at the comparatively underpowered GPU.
How come PS4 cost 381 to make but the price was 399? Basing my predictions off that, not sure how much Sony wants to eat but it might not be that much per unit.
500 would be extremely cheap desu, the retailers need their cut, the taxes need their cut.
thats why i predict shelf price to be 570 dollars
Sell at a loss, make up by selling subscriptions, $80 controllers, random PSN junk, other accessories and shit.
Isn't that how it usually works?
>imagine caring about pocket change
>$570
why would they make it such a weird number it's gonna either be
>549
or
>599
Only poor people without impulse control have this mindset.
pretty sure sony make up their losses with us euro cucks, they don't convert dollars into euros to make it fair.
it's gonna be $555
Tax isn't usually included in the sticker price, in the US at least. It'll be $500 + your sales tax amount, but you'll eat that cost not Sony.
They just sell at a loss and make it back by jewing you on PSN, controllers, yada yada. I'm not paying anything for 30FPS so its price is irrelevant to me.