Mark Cerny: PS5 Launch Price Will be 'Appealing to Gamers' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2019 / 3,293 Views
First details on Sony's upcoming next generation were released earlier. The console will have an 8-core 7nm Zen 2 AMD Ryzen CPU, Radeon Navi GPU, SSD, and support backwards compatibility.
Peter Rubin from the article via Twitter revealed lead architect Mark Cerny talked about the possible price point of the upcoming console. The PlayStation 4 launched at $399 in November 2013.
"I believe that we will be able to release it at an SRP [suggested retail price] that will be appealing to gamers in light of its advanced feature set," said Cerny.
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Yeah it sounds like it will be $500
Huh, maybe it could still be 399. Maybe they'll just take a substantial loss on hardware in the hopes of selling a crap ton of software. I mean, they do have the wiggle room to do that.
They're going with $499 and they're taking $100 loss for each console. I saw it in their intervie papers, Sony said it.
Yeah $499 sounds about right.
If XB Anaconda is considerably more powerful at $499, then PS5 should be $50 to $100 lower. If Anaconda is basically on par at $499, then PS5 will probably be $499. If Anaconda is basically on par and less than $499, PS5 will match it. If PS5 is considerably more powerful, then $499 max regardless.
Hope only Sony don't make the Same mistake like with the ps3
They won't. If it's a single console it won't be more than $499 and I can't see that lasting for longer than a year before it drops. A no compromises 4k/60 PS5 could be $599, but they would no doubt have a $399, 1080p-checkerboard4k/60 model and drop Pro. Imagine if the 60GB PS3 was the top model at $599 but instead of the smaller HDD $499 model, they had a $399 model without BC at launch.
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I'm going for $449 with Sony taking losses.
$499 would be great. I’d not feel as dumb as paying $600 for a 60GB PS3.
Probably the price will be 500 USD, and the real price is 650 USD but Sony take the rest and subsides it. So no problem here, High end PC could end up more then 1000 USD without keyboard, gaming mouse and gamepad. So 500 USd is cheap
I think I'll start saving now. :P
With the system being backwards compatible with at least PS4 and PSVR, that would help continue selling games and wouldn't destroy the sales of PS4 hardware, so they could go for a $399 price point and not wipe out their war chest. Giving them time to bring the price down before ending the PS4.
299.99 dollars would be great!
so would 150, but given what they have said regarding the ssd solution theres no way this system is sub 500imo, i think the launch models should be 1tb ssd or 4tbhdd space/speed whichever a gamer wants
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