Sony Says Rumored PS5 Price and Release Date is 'Not an Official Announcement' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2020 / 5,086 Views
Japanese blog Gamers Gate this week reported the PlayStation 5 would launch December 4, 2020 at a price of 69,800 (around $637) yen for the standard model with a 1TB SSD and 109,800 yen (around $1000) for the PS5 Pro with a 4TB SSD.
A Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) spokesperson speaking with Famitsu said the "posted content is not an official announcement" and "I will refrain from commenting on rumors and speculation."
What is known is the PlayStation 5 will launch in Holiday 2020.
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We won't see a Sony console which will cost more than the 600 $ PS3 price tag. A 4TB SSD currently costs around 500 $. Not very probable that they put this into a console.
Yeah, the 4TB SSD flags this as a false rumor easily.
Beyond just Sony's denial, the blog has already been shown to be full of completely fake articles. "One of their leaks claims that a visual for Pokemon Diamond and Pearl remakes leaked from Amazon Spain in October 2019. However, if you search the image’s source with google image, you’ll be quick to notice it dates from as far as 2017. Similarly easy to notice fakes populate the blog’s articles."
Doubt they'd release a 'Pro' so early. I'd think they'd want the console out the door at a decent cost to get player base going. That price is nearly double the PS4 release price and well over twice the Switch currently. $500 for the base PS5 (£450), then a discless for $400 seems more likely.
My personal prediction is two SKUs - $399 with 1TB SSD, and $499 with 2TB SSD. I don't think Sony would go more than 2TB at all, just because the price starts getting so high.
Keep in mind SSD prices for consumers are NOT the same as a company like Sony buying them in bulk for a console launch. Also, the PS5 will more than likely be using 128-layer 3D NAND that doesn't exist yet - but will be shipping en masse within the first half of 2020, and therefore more than plentiful enough by the time Holiday 2020 comes around. 128-layer 3D NAND will again substantially lower overall SSD prices from where they are now with current 64/96-layer technologies.
Sounds like a reasonable possibility.
Those prices are insane. I doubt many people will be willing to pay that amount of money when the new machines come out, so probably Sony and MS will sell those at a loss.
I have faith in Sony but what if they're sitting on a console that doesn't match up to Series X? What if they have a 9 Teraflop machine for $499? What if they have no plans for Game Pass like initiatives?
If this is true, Sony may as well just forget about releasing a next gen system. That pricing is crazy.
Of course, there's no way it's true. PS5 will be available for $500 or less. We've seen many times now that crazy pricing brings predictably bad sales. Sony has learned this first hand. They won't make that mistake again.
It doesn't make any sense to launch with the pro model alongside the launch model/models. The pro model will come out a few years into the PS5's life cycle so they can take advantage of newer tech and so they can sell early adopters with deep pockets a second PS5.
Title is wrong. They didn't say it is false, but that it isn't official. Those seem hefty pricetags. But I would buy a PS5Pro for 1000 if it really delivered the goods.
A PS5Pro with a 4TB SSD being $1000/£1000 is a good deal. as 4TB SSD's are basically half that cost.
This supposed PS5 Pro is only coming at launch if the base model is $499 or less. A $599+ and $999 PS5 family at launch would make PS3 look like it somehow made sense.
I'd still get one at launch if it offered a 4tb ssd and the Canadian price tag would likely be around $1300-$1400 +13% sales tax. Only because I'd take full advantage of EB Games' trade-in promos. I purchased my PS4 at launch for around $125CAD because of said promos. If I hadn't used those trade-in promos it would have been $565.
Essay Pro