30th Anniversary PS5 Slim, DualSense Prices Leaked

Similarly priced as the others. I want a Black one but this looks nice.

Still gonna try for the DualSense

Sold my Switch Lite and Original Playstation Portal over the weekend so I can get the 30th Anniversary Dualsense and Portal.

They really should have let PS5 Pro 30th be sold on its own.
I have no interest in the Edge controller adding at least £200 to the bundle.

Anyway good luck on Thursday everyone.

@jrt87
Totally agree on that should be sold on its own the Pro LE.
This is the part of Sony that so pisses me off, would love to give them a good keep it polite mouthful.

Good luck on Thursday, everyone! I think whatever insane price that Pro bundle will be carrying, it's gonna be scalped to death ;_;

@OldGamer999 @jrt87 at least they haven't inserted a Portal in the bundle XD also if we sell the pro controller we will have compromised the integrity of the bundle forever.

Going to try and grab that Pro knowing full well I don't stand a chance.......

@Nei
Will go for a standard white pro probably.
Got to get in the queue first then onto the site
Then place me order and pay.
It’s a bit stupid to do it all on the same day.
They could have split it over two different days.
The pro on the 26th
The anniversary stuff the 27th, actually probably better the other way round.
But who’s crazy discussion it was to do it all at once I shall never know.

Who’s ready to break the internet as we battle to the death on Thursday for a PS5 Pro 30th?! Let’s rumble!!

it just blows my mind how $ony (& nintendo) doesn’t see the beauty in colored buttons . why did they even get rid of it ?? for “professionalism” to play video games ? because it looks mOdErN ???

i need this controller

Sucks that they aren't even releasing plates for people with the original model. Oh well I guess us fat PS5 owners will be left out going forward. Still, good luck everyone. I hope everyone is able to get the stuff they want.

My first two DualSense controllers had to be replaced due to stick drift and broken triggers. I would love to get this 30th Anniversary controller or the Astro Bot edition but knowing that they will inevitably go bad has turned me off getting either of them. It’s such a shame because when the DualSense is fully utilised (e.g. in Returnal) it is an absolute joy to use.
My PS3 and PS4 DualShock controllers by comparison are all still going strong without issue (and have much better battery life!).

@jrt87 you forgot vertical stand xD

So the bundle is the only option to buy the Pro? That's very disappointing if so...

I mean, you could just sell the other bits but the upfront cost is gonna hurt a lot. Not sure if I could possibly justify that 😂

@Pranwell very edgy. Hope you don't get any of those items! 🫡

@MidnightDragonDX I may get an edge controller but I don't see the point honestly? I don't play competitively, maybe the standard DS will be good enough? The pro asking price is too much and it still doesn't include a external disc drive! is not a great deal at all especially for the asking price, I would switch the stand with an external disc drive if it was an option

@CallMeDuraSouka with UK prices, no we don't stand a chance with scalpers, and like I said no disc drive included in this bundle 😤😤

Half the LEDs went out in the living room TV, Windows Update bricked my PC's boot SSD, and my wife's laptop is dead dead - all in one day. As much as I want one of those controllers, ehhh, it's not in the cards right now.

I hope every scalper misses out... but not holding out hope that Sony has responded to the bot problem.

Lol the fact that the standard dual sense is priced at 75, when it has a relatively short and inconsistent lifespan before drift sets in is literally robbery.

Eventually all of this Sony price gouging and remasterake double dipping will bite them in the ass. We get it, you totally fumbled the generation thus far and have wasted billions in the process.

However, I refuse to be grifted into paying for your mistakes via the multitude of cash grabs you continue to half bake into existence.

I wonder, if not enough people buy the Pro, would Sony go back to supporting the base PS5 as their main seller and just let the Pro lapse?

@KundaliniRising333 "Eventually all of this Sony price gouging and remasterake double dipping will bite them in the [expletive]."

Honestly, I hope so, too - for the consumer's sake (not because I want PlayStation to fail).

Sadly, I feel like people will continue to support it because...PlayStation...and just complain about it in the comments section as if they had no control over the situation.

@GamingFan4Lyf I do think they will eventually price gouge and push so many people past the nostalgia of better times to the extent that the waning consumer sentiment will eventually translate into a sharp drop of in early adoption, overall player base, and just plain growth in corporate terms.

It will take more time for sure, but if they stay the underwhelming, greed driven course they are on, I think it inevitable. I genuinely hope those still under the cultist lull of blind platform allegiant excuse making wake up and make this happen. Not for Sony to fail just as you mentioned. Merely because I want a course correction back toward what made playstation the diverse platform of great games it once was.

It will only occur when people stop buying it to buy it. advocate for what they truly want with restraint, rather than merely gobbling up Mediocrity and predation simply because it's all that is on offer. That's exactly what these corpos are banking on.

It happened to work out for me so I might be buying a PlayStation five Pro but I'm gonna wait till November so that it's a couple days in. Streamers/testers etc can give better examples of what it brings to the table with games.

@Mikey856 no word on the times yet
I don't think Sony announced a specific time for the OG PS5 either when it released.

@Loamy You can buy just a regular pro. You don't have to get the bundle.

@KundaliniRising333 Sony has recognized their market is trained by the mobile market. They'res lawyers in Saudi with nothing so spend money on but elite premium brand entertainment center equipment. That's their target. They're purely skimming the whales and in our newly bifurcated economy theres no shortage of whales to milk globally, even if it's only a percent of that used to be their market.

Remember the blind allegiant crowds is only a blip on their radar. Most of their market doesn't buy because PlayStation. Most buy because "default product I'm aware of". Once something looks better, it cheaper, but seems popular, that's what will be the default. Sony targeting yuppie entertainment rooms is idiotically myopic, but it's their standard practice.

When PS1 came out and I was in Sega and Nintendo I didn't understand why people would want a console from an expensive VCR maker instead of a real games company. As I load my cart with Atlus and RGG games and Sony is doing this, I'm wondering that question again.

@HamKnight That's what they were always going to do either way. See also, 4 pro. Pro will make up at most 15% of the install base. 20% if it's a shocking runaway unpredicted viral hit. I.e. most players will be on base and devs will kind of ignore pro.

@jrt87 seeing how they are only selling 12k consoles , bundling it together makes sense , i mean its going to sell out under 1 min.

sadly this will get scalped so badly , and people will over pay for it. hopefully 99% of it gets sold to people who are going to enjoy it.

I know I can never compete with scalpers for that PS5 Pro, but I need that Dualsense!

@KundaliniRising333 People should really look toward the PC crowd.

You know what price the PC market pays for Sony games to get the same quality (and more) of the PS5 version? PS4 prices. That "PS5 Tax" doesn't exist there and those people don't even subsidize Sony with PS+, a hardware sale, AND Sony has to give storefronts a cut of the sale.

So was the $70 really necessary at all?!

I will bet that PSN log-ins for single-player games will eventually become option on PC too with enough rallying support.

@NEStalgia Agreed. The reason PS5 sales are the way they are is basically...habit. I know that will ruffle feathers, but it's true. The people here are a minority of a minority.

It has nothing to do with PlayStation 5 being particularly special - Fortnite, Madden, FIFA (excuse me FC), etc. etc. don't require a PlayStation.

In fact, the Series X has a much better feature set, better handling of cross-generation migration, and Microsoft had much better pro-consumer practices this generation and it still didn't take off.

It's just that PlayStation - much to Sony's credit - is synonymous with gaming in the way Nintendo was synonymous with gaming back in the 80's and early 90's (well in the US...I believe SEGA was more popular in UK).

I have no idea what will knock Sony off its high horse, but for everyone's sake, I hope something does so Sony starts trying again. Astro Bot was the best first-party game Sony has release in a while - and this is coming from someone who has played all the major first-party games for PS5. I want more of stuff like that. That isn't to say the other games were bad, they were just...safe.

Remember, if you buy from scalpers, you are the reason scalpers exist.

Grey! it was never boring to begin with

This is bait. Try to get a ps5pro 30 anniversary to distract from getting a reg ps5pro so the skalpppperrrrz can clutch them ALLLLLLL and profit. God I love being a Playstation fan these days.

@JalapenoSpiceLife No plan for the Edge. Normal one is fine

@jrt87 It's like every corporation in the world thought The Hunger Games was a how-to guide.

The Edge made the standard controller obsolete to me, at least.

If I can't get the Edge, I'll pass on the standard even if it's the OG colorway.

@GamingFan4Lyf does the world need another pc master race supporter?

No...

So do i have to sit out the 25th until midnight to even have a chance of ordering a Pro? Or will there be specific times on the 26th?

@jrt87 they are barely making any of the LE pros. So they can get away with it. As there are millions of PS fans. This is what a true special edition looks like. More exclusive. Which will make the value very high for those whom like to collect things.

Dunno why so much discussion on whether the price should be cheaper or not or include the elite controller or not when it will be gone within seconds

@astro911 I've got an Astro Dualsense for sale on eBay. I managed to buy two but decided to sell one when the 30th Anniversary Dualsense was announced

Going to try and get the dualsense, although I am not hopeful I will get one against the scalpers bots. I need a new controller anyways and if not I shall just grab a standard black one.

Anyone have any idea what time they will go on sale as it doesn’t give a time, I can’t sit and just refresh the page all day as I have to, y’know, do some work!

@YoureTooSlowBro I know. I'll probably end up getting the standard one. I just wanted to cop an LE version because the look is great

This is such a weird gen. A ridiculous procession of overpriced hardware and a perceived lack of worthwhile games since day one.

@Zemo55 sounds like a plan! I hope you get many years of good use out of both controllers.

I might get a controller but given the whole point of the PS5 design was removable covers, why aren't we getting those to buy for existing owners?

I might just get the controller I have no interest in getting a new PS5 especially the Pro which is £700 and an extra £100 for disc drive

I'm assuming the controller is the "B" revision, so the triggers (which I disabled the resistive feedback on) make a cheap plastic sound when they clap back. The launch controller and "A" revision don't do this.

Ho-hum.

Not looking forward to the mad scramble to get one but if I do manage to get at least something I want then I'll be happy.

Fair play, these 30th anniversary consoles and peripherals are gorgeous.

@jrt87 @GamingFan4Lyf Good that you are protesting more chance for me to get one. 😁

Is it really that important what colour something you pretty much never look at is? I mean surely either you're using the PS5 and thus looking at the screen, or you're doing something else and not just sitting there staring at the certain-coloured plastic you just spent hundreds on? I kind of feel like I've put my 'They Live' shades on here...

@J_e_f_f__D I'm not a "Master Race" person. Game where you want.

While I certainly appreciate the power of PC, I am more in the PC realm (after a 12 year hiatus in favor of consoles, might I add) because I am seeing things in the console space I don't like.

Microsoft is tearing its console business apart and we are already seeing Sony licking its chops and rubbing its hands together while it looks at its consumers to bleed dry.

The sad part is, when people are actually trying to raise up red flags they get nothing but eye rolls and snotty comments.

Guess what, I am still supporting PlayStation by buying Sony games. But I am doing so in a place where Sony can actually be put into check rather than letting the company walk all over me!

P.S. I have a PlayStation 5 in my living room that I play almost daily (well, until I finish Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, that is)

@JackiePriest I feel your frustration too, Jackie. I also have the OG PS5. Got it at UK launch. Been running like a champion for almost 4 years. Now? It's forgotten like yesterday's news for the newest shiny. Sad time.

@ColdHandGee on the bright side we’ll eventually have a rare model now. the OG ps5 will be hard to find, and we can feel special for having it , haha .

plus, i personally love the OG/fat model consoles the fat ps1, fat ps2, fat ps3, fat psp are all some nice & pretty big boys

Why not 30.000 units for the 30th anniversary?

I'm gonna get the DualSense, open it up, and make sweet love to it with my hands.

@nomither6 That is so true! Sony have always made the Original consoles 'chunky. I have never been a fan of slimmer versions being consequently released. That is why I am not liking the PS5 PRO, due to how it looks similar to the Slim.
You are right about the OG's becoming more sort after due to how well the cooling works:never had a issue with overheating. Are you getting the PRO?

@jrt87 Yeah, it's extremely irritating that Sony would choose to bundle the most expensive console, raising the price even more. Would've been more reasonable to just put the digital edition into a bundle instead.

They look incredible but I am going to skip the futility of even trying

I want the 30th Anniversary PS5 PRO I just don't want the bundle it would be cool if they was just selling the console by itself

I’ll try get the Dualsense but I expect to lose out. Do we know what time Thursday they go on sale?

@ear_wig I think we will all loose to scalpers and then everything will sell on eBay and stockX for triple the price.

@ColdHandGee nah i’m not getting the pro, there’s no reason for me to when i have a PC also. And im with you about the anniversary design, it’s a shame it took after the slim model , that caught me off guard too because i thought it would be the fat model; but it makes sense for it to be a slim “progress wise” i guess .

@Luna-Harmony it’s going to be an absolute sh*t show! Any real fans will be very, VERY lucky if they get one. How about Sony just take orders from everyone who wants one and produce the consoles for everyone per order, thus eliminating the scalpers? We know Sony has the resources for this!! Or are they going to run out of gray paint??? Absolutely disgusting capitalist nonsense!

I wonder what time pre-orders open ? Midnight Wednesday going into Thursday 1 second in.
I bet the serves crash and freeze and then it goes back to normal they will all be gone. Then all of a sudden eBay and stockX will be packed to 5000 for Pro and 10,000 for Pro anniversary grey.
Also pro pads will be going for 700 i recon.
I hope everyone goes one and one for only one person so everyone gets a chance and the grey model looks stunning.

@AfroMario they are only making 12,000 of these , if anything they will go up in price because how rare they will be.

Calling it now itll be $1000-$1200.
Somy isnt announcing the price because of the $700 ps5 pro dislikes it got.
We all think its because of the concord tax after sony lost $200 million

@twitchtvpat
Maybe 50 yrs from now? Tbh ps5 kinda sux in terms of games so far and the ps4 20th anniversary isnt even goin for much. Only scalpers and collectors will be interested in this. Casuals like me couldnt care less. Ill be happy getting the normal ps5 pro

I'm waiting on finding out what price the Edge is.

@astro911 the Astro Dualsense sold last night, scarily while Astro Bot DLC was showing on state of play last night! It went for £50 so someone's grabbed a bargain!

"It’s hypothesised the UK price will be £449.99" - nah, it'll be £499.99 over here as New Sony hates anyone outside of the US.

Did we ever get a price reduction back to £450 for the disc-ed one due to the exchange rates levelling up? Didn't think so...

I was able to grab one but never received a confirmation email. When I go to the site it says order is place. Did anyone else experience this?? Ordered from the US btw.