- Pricing: $699.99 / £699.99 / €799.99 / ¥119,980
- Moderate upgrades
- No disc drive
- Stand not included
Seriously just get a PC lol. Roughly same price, no internet subscription fee, backwards compatible with every game ever made.
Microsoft now charges $75 a year just to play games online for the xbox
Fuck all consoles
To clarify, you can add a disc drive like you can with the current Digital Edition…for an extra $80.
So if you want this, a disc drive and a stand ($30), plus sales tax, that brings the whole package to about $870-$880. Well over $300 more than the vanilla Disc Edition at launch in 2020.
Edit: FORGOT, if you get a disc drive and don’t want your console to look like shit, you’ll also have to get at least one modified side plate for that side, bringing all this even closer to the $900 mark.
Including a second controller and bits you need (stand, disc drive) this is £900 in the UK. That’s almost $1200. Without a game.
Modern game graphics have killed the console market.
Serious question, is there a reason to get a second controller? Couch multiplayer is not that common anymore, especially with Sony titles.
Having a second controller is a psychological crutch in this way. It represents the eternal possibility of that friend who is just about to burst through the doorway and play video games next to you, like when you were kids. Now purely ceremonial.
Well, you’ll definitely want a second controller because the PS5 controller sticks are well known for very quickly developing problems like severe stick drift. So when your first controller inevitably goes bad, you’ll want that spare, either as a replacement entirely, or as a backup while you spend weeks first arguing with Sony just to honor the agreement to fix their shit (if you’re lucky enough to still be under warantee) and then shipping it to them and waiting far too long for them to return it, and then only to find they did nothing and have to go through the process all over again, to finally hopefully get back a fixed (for the time being) controller. So yes, a second controller is necessary, even if you only ever play solo.
Perhaps not for big new Sony titles, but if you’re a family / have kids you definitely want at least two as there’s still lots of good couch multiplayer games out there.
If it’s just for you then possibly for stick drift (rather than getting them later when they’ve gone up in price again) or because they still use a built-in battery instead of rechargeables, and they don’t last very long by comparison (and that play time gets even lower as they age obviously).
$700 to play what 2 exclusives, wow.
