PS5 Discounted by $50 in the US Until August 20 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 August 2023 / 3,511 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment has discounted the price of the PlayStation 5 by $50 until August 20.
The PS5 with a disc drive is available for $450, the bundle with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is on sale for $490, and the Final Fantasy XVI bundle is available for $510.
Target, Best Buy, and Amazon have also discounted the price of the PS5 by $50 to $450, as well as the PS5 DualSense wireless controller down to $50.
The PS5 Digital Edition has not been discounted and is still priced at $400.
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Do I smell clearing stock for some reason?
Yes, cost cutting on the way. Cheaper parts and materials.
The fact this is for the disc model only make me think my guess as to what Sony will release later will be true. It will be a price drop along with the revised model - but also sort of not. PS5 has been $399 Digital, $499 Disc since launch. I think the PS5 "Slim" will be $399 Digital - or $449 bundled with its slot-in disc drive. The disc drive itself will be sold at $69 or $79. That would represent a bundle deal for those who buy it with the disc drive from the get-go, and an overall $50 price cut compared to the disc model now. But for those who were going digital only anyway, it is still the same $399 price. What I am really hoping is Sony will also double the amount of SSD space with this revision, as flash prices are through the basement right now. A 2TB retail drive is below $100, so for Sony to include 1.65TB of SSD space is easily WAY below what they paid for the 825GB it had at launch time.
I think you have a lot of good predictions here, but I doubt the doubling of SSD space. The biggest they'd go is 1 TB (to match Xbox) IMO.
Yes, there were arguments about why they went 825 GB with regard to performance, but those appeared to be debunked after they unlocked the second SSD slot via firmware, when inexpensive drives of other sizes performed about the same for reads, and actually outperformed the stock drive for writes, so.... shrug
If they increased it, it would have to be 1.65TB as it's a 12-channel design, not 4- or 8-channels as in most computer SSDs. When you have a 4/8-channel design, then your target numbers are 512GB/1TB/2TB/etc. Because of the atypical 12-channel setup, Sony is 825GB, 1.65TB or 3.3TB for any potential amounts they go with.
Interesting. And no way to change that? It seems to me they could migrate to a different SSD design.
In any case, they COULD ship it pre-populated with a second SSD in the expansion port then. Which would make sense if they also sold one without that, in case you had a particular second SSD in mind.
Very good deal. And yes a reviewed model is incoming for sure.
Yeah, Sony's been releasing revisions approximately annually, so we should definitely see something new this year. I'm currently predicting it won't be in a new case though, on the strength of the Spider-Man special edition being announced for this autumn. Time will tell, though.
My current prediction is yet another internal revision, in the same old case, and a firmware update to allow first-party external optical disc drives on the new systems (if not also the old ones).
Either they overestimated how fast their shipments would sell or they're trying to drive up PS5 software sales by selling more PS5s.
Clearing out stock ahead of the new unit ;)
