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[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday (lemmy.world)

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[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

The price alone isn't the problem.

If the launch came paired with great new games it would be a whole different story, like as if it would be a new generation console like a PS6 with new exclusive games I doubt that the price would even be an issue. People would still complain, but they'll get over it.

From what I've seen it's practically only PS5 'Pro Enhanced' games, which are mostly games that have been around many years already. Plus it doesn't have a disc drive so it's more expensive if you want disc support too.

I still got an original PS5 (with disc drive), I mostly only played PS exclusive games and a few games that I prefer on console, it's perfectly capable of doing 4k and/or high resolution graphics and framerates depending on the game. I don't see a reason to upgrade to the Pro at all. And I think new players are more likely to just go for the PS5 Slim instead.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago

The last thing we need is Pro consoles getting exclusives. That would be PS6 in all but name.

The PS4 Pro made some sense. The PS4 was underpowered on launch, and 4K became pretty commonplace shortly after they launched. It still had an underpower CPU, but at least you got an upscaled HDR 1440p image for most of the time which is good enough. Even PC gamers accepted upscaling to 4K once they gave it a fancy name and told them it was exclusive.

But here, you've already got a choice of pretty RT mode and 60 fps mode, and if you really wanted both of those at the same time, then you could lash out a big pile of money for a PC.

It's 700 notes for half a generation of slightly prettier gaming. It's aimed at the "turn everything to ultra and have a fit when it drops below 60fps" PC gaming demographic, who have no need for this.

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

still be sitting onthe shelf after the holidays at that price point

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago

"GOOD GOOD"

"Twice the pride double the fall."'

"I've been looking forward to this."

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The supply chain problems of covid REALLY broke everyone.

Consoles selling out is actually "bad". Why? Because they are closed gardens. If people can go down to best buy or browse amazon and pick up a console they are more likely to buy a few games to go with it. Rather than needing to frantically monitor five different discord servers to get into a queue as fast as possible to MAYBE get one. The former encourages browsing and impulse buys. The latter is basically only for people with very targeted shopping lists.

Also... it is not even October. MAYBE come early November you can start to make these assessments for that most holy of holidays, Black Friday. But hell day and xmas are still months out and the holiday rush of shopping hasn't begun yet.

I personally see nothing compelling about the ps5 pro. But this is the equivalent of buying an xbox and saying microsoft are going to win because they have a stronger supply chain.