What is the future of PlayStation pricing? (Sony)
The Tuesday letters page discusses more reasons why you should or shouldn’t buy a PS5 Pro, as one reader assumes a GTA 6 delay.
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Arrogant assumptions
Thinking it’s too early to start talking about the PlayStation 6 seems to be about the only thing I’ve seen everyone agree on lately. You can’t deny that the wheels are turning though, and I think it’s obvious it’s going to be earlier than 2028, and even that sounded too soon to me, when the date was first talked about.
The obvious question at the moment, given the PS5 Pro has just been announced, is how much is it going to cost? I’ve seen some wonder if the PS5 Pro’s ridiculous price is a way to normalise a £700+ console and that that’s roughly how much the PlayStation 6 will cost. But I don’t think that’s the case. The PS4 Pro was more expensive than the PlayStation 4 (and the Xbox One X more expensive than that Xbox One) but that didn’t affect the consoles after that.
A lot of people have accused Sony of going back to their own arrogant ways, assuming people will pay anything to own their consoles, and that I would agree with. But at the same time, they’re not crazy. They know they’re not going to sell 100+ million PlayStation 6 consoles if they cost that much and arrogance, or the opposite, has nothing to do with that.
Rather than Sony setting the standard for future prices I think it’s going to be the Switch 2 that does it. If it’s around £400 and relatively powerful then Sony and Xbox are going to have a lot of trouble selling their next gen hybrid consoles if they try to make them more expensive – which you know they’ll want to.
Ipsum
Positive experience
Very valid point made by the reader, and ironically yourselves, in terms of recent Inbox negativity across Sony/Microsoft/PS5 Pro pricing, etc. So I thought I’d cheer the community up a bit and add further credence to just how amazing Astro Bot is!
I’m very well versed in platform games and would say them, along with third person action adventure (Uncharted, Tomb Raider, The Last Of Us, etc.) are my favourite genre of games.
I loved Astro’s Playroom and that along with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart are my only ever platinums. So I knew I’d love Astro Bot but wow… it truly is outstanding! The use of the DualSense haptics are truly GOAT, like you said, and it makes you angry how other games aren’t utilising this amazing technology. Especially in today’s shallow creativity pool. Although I can say Returnal’s rain on Biome 1 was also a big wow moment in terms of haptics.
The level design is a joy to behold, with each one really well done and each power-up cleverly executed. I said to my mate who is also loving it: ‘Astro …read more
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