I see a lot of outrage about the price. But really, what’s the alternative? Inflation has been nuts and most things are up. GPU alone would cost more than the console, if you’re building a pc.
I will say though, no disc drive is a real shit move. Just a few years ago it was like, “here’s the price, and here’s the price if you don’t want a disk drive.” Now it’s the opposite and that part is definitely annoying.
The alternatives is getting a PS4 and playing 98% of the PS5 games at 70-90% of the visual quality and 100% of the gameplay, plus all the PS4 games the PS5 doesn’t have.
Or just get a switch. You should already have a PC you can cheaply upgrade.
all the PS4 games the PS5 doesn’t have.
Thankfully this list is small enough that you can just ignore it:
- Afro Samurai 2 Revenge of Kuma Volume One
- Just Deal With It!
- Robinson: The Journey
- We Sing
- Hitman Go: Definitive Edition
- Shadwen
https://www.playstation.com/support/games/ps5-backward-compatibility-games/#only
GPU alone would cost more than the console, if you’re building a pc.
There’s not many models that expensive. A comparable GPU to the PS5 Pro’s is around half the cost
“comparable gpu” is kinda loaded. I have a pc and a ps5, so I’m not trying to take sides. What gpu are you getting for 350 usd that games at the fps, quality, and resolution that the ps5 does?
I agree, I don’t think there’s anything Sony can do about the cost. Manufacturing costs aren’t going down over time like they used to in the past. That’s why there haven’t been any price cuts this gen.
I think the PS5 Pro was just a doomed concept to begin with. There’s nothing they could do to make games look noticeably better without making the console outrageously expensive or requiring devs to do an unreasonable amount of work to support it.
