PS5 Price: Sony Emphasising Value for Next-Gen Format

Maybe they will continue to rebrand PSNow (add more first party PS4 games around the ps5 launch) and throw in a 3 month subscription with the consoles to help entice consumers as an alternative to game pass.

They couldn’t of had the last CEO step down and take over PSNow role for nothing. I feel like it’s gonna get a big overhaul around launch.

@Stragen8 I agree PSNow will be key, but I think they need to offer PS5 games from the start if they want to compete with GamePass, probably the Spider-Man expansion or something.
I'm sure sometime in the next couple of months we'll hear about it.
Also, I prefer paying more to play better exclusives than have "free" access to a bunch of games I may not care about, I guess this will be the point Sony will try to emphasize
Then again, all wallets run out of money sometime

After yesterday's stream Sony are in a good place. Common people dunno what terraflops etc and are focusing on the games. Even if its more expensive than the new Xbox Sony have shown off alot of gameplay and more importantly new ips.

I agree that they need to do more with PS Plus tho and maybe integration with PS Now may help. Im awaiting a VR bundle tho. I played PSVR over a friends and would like to own my own with Blood and Truth or a PS5 equivalent

If a digital edition cost to be 499 euro and 599 euro for standard edition. Then I will get standard edition anyway because digital doesn't mean anything and it is a waste space for HDD and I love to collected my favourite physical games. That is an arts, that's why. Digital isn't!

I'm in regardless, purely because of the first-party games. But I hope it's not too costly. They should sell at cost, or as near to it as possible, and make the profit on the game sales.

That said, I hope they're not planning on increasing the game prices again.

If they can't get the PS5 consoles out at $400 (digital) and $500 (non-digital) then they'll just have to hit big with the day one games. The $600 launch day price for a 60 GB PS3 was an issue but it was compounded by the fact that many of the big third party games ran worse than they did on the much more affordable Xbox 360 and the only exclusive that was really good was Resistance. The latter wasn't $600 good though. We'll see. If Spider-Man Miles Morales, Gran Turismo 7 and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart are all day one games, that's intriguing. We also still don't know what MS will price the Series X at. What will be interesting is whatever the rumored second next-gen Xbox turns out to be. If truly is a step up from One X, and not too far off from Series X, then that could pose a problem for Sony if MS can again get a $200 price advantage.

I'm expecting for $399 for Digital Only and $449 for Standard Edition. They can't compete with $499 price point against Xbox Series X also with their Xbox Game Pass.

They have to take a loss per unit IMO, it's regarding how this gen is about content and price rather than specs. It's definitely hard but in the long run, I think they'll succeed

@louieverr you are veeeeery optimistic...

I expect 599€/559€

@Paranoimia... Yes, I've wondered too on why they don't discount the hardware in order to get it in your home and then make the $$ on games. Can experts comment on this?

Yep. When you say gamers will "aspire" towards it you ain't talking chicken feed.

Im betting 399 and 499

@ILikeStake 449 and 499 I bet. The lack of a disc drive won't reduce the price by that much I reckon.

@azoreseuropa Why are digital games a waste of space on a HDD compared to disk games? They take up the same space.

@JohnnyShoulder No, download data do but digital waste the space. I prefer to have physical boxes for the collection and a beauty of art. And I grew up with physical boxes so I am stick with it. No digital for me at all. Just saying.

@azoreseuropa Eh? Sorry but most of what say you makes no sense whatsoever. Ok you prefer physical over digital, which is fine. But there is no need to keep trashing one format over the other like you have been doing.

@JohnnyShoulder No needed to throw the harsh words at me. It made sense to me but I can see that you prefer Digital over Physical one so that's fine. And... It is called opinion but thanks for commenting.

@azoreseuropa I can see the pros and cons of both. You are entitled to have an opinion on which is the best, but to say things like 'BAN DIGITAL DOWNLOADABLE! ITS STUPID!' is not really not the best way to contribute to the discussion.

$599 for the standard. 300-400 for the digital only. If it's less, awesome. The price for the SSD alone is close to 2-300, of course they may have their own price they pay.

I'd rip their hand off at £400.

I'm guessing $499 and $599, but the loaded model could be more.

I’d be very surprised if it was less than £499.99 and I really can’t see the digital edition being £100 less, it’s still going to have the same specs as the one with a disc drive. Lockhart/Series S however will be different to the Series X and can definitely see that costing at least £100 less, maybe even less than that.

I would say keep an eye out...
Currently you all think streaming platforms do not stand a chance of a matching this... Just wait 😘

@Stragen8 wait this is for real? Hopefully we get a nice surprise

@Consolegamer123 The CEO before Jim Ryan moved over to the PS Now department to focus on that, so I’d assume he wouldn’t have done that unless they see big promise and growth in that area? And besides marketing and some big PS4 games rotating every few months, there hasn’t been any other substantial change that I’m aware of yet.

A hard drive slot at the production level for a piece of tech they have rights too (BluRay) shouldn't cost them more than $20 to produce. I doubt they'll drop the price more than $50 for digital.