Sony never really changed. In 2006, after their first console sold 100+ million and their second console sold 150+ million, outselling all of their competition, they believed the market became theirs and they could set whatever price they wanted and be as anti-consumer as possible, and that people would still buy it because of the “PlayStation” brand. They were wrong, had to change course around 2009/2010, and spent half a decade rebuilding good will. The PS4 was very successful, and mid-way through its generation, Sony began a mass censorship campaign and didn’t get enough pushback. Now they’re right back to charging outrageous prices, yet, unfortunately, there are too many people defending them this time.
the ps3 was the price it was because of the blu ray drive. xbox had an hd dvd add on that was 150 iirc. i had both systems but i did not invest in the hd dvd. my boss even complained about the price [ps3] until he bought one and noticed all of things it could do, he had both systems also.
PS5 Pro is pure bullshit. I paid 500€ for my PS5 with a disc drive and stand. Now in Finland PS5 pro is 800€+130€ for disc drive+30€ for vertical stand, so it's 960€(1068$), not buying that shit.
@@R0bertCc sorry to hear that. Missed out on astrobot, psvr2, and the entire ps4 library and its value. Xbox is a barren wasteland, actually zero games
Zen 2 is already old tech. AMD is at Zen 5 as of writing which is significantly faster per clock cycle. Also do you think GTA6 will run smooth on the PS5 Pro? GTA6 is CPU heavy because it simulates an entire city. I can see Sony advertise the PS6 for the best GTA6 experience. Just WATCH! Sorry suckers who jumped to buy the Pro.🤣
It's absolutely lunacy, this is hardware from before 2018 when the dev kits where given to developers. These consoles should be like $300-$400 maximum with a outdated blue ray disc and stand obviously.
@@bjarnisAn RTX 3070 would probably bulldoze this piece of junk. PS5 is 1440p at medium settings anyways with exaggerated 4K that’s not even native. It’s upscaled to the high heavens 🤣 . Sincerely, A PC gamer with a base PS5 that collects dust.
actually, this does affect me because if the pro is successful this gives sony the greenlight to keep raising prices on their products, this gives microsoft the ok to raise prices, it gives nividia to raise prices, it gives apple the ok to raise prices. This literally effects everyone look at what happen when take two and sony rose price of games to $70 dollars other game publishers started to do it even nintendo
@@joogled1839 Which does not matter because they STARTED that "trend" and we are seeing that again, they are artificially inflating the price of a piece of hardware that is effectively 6 years old. If people accept this other companies will soon start following this stupidiy because they see that costumers are stupid enough to buy it anyways.
“Fake outrage”? No, Mark Cerny. The outrage is legitimate. If your corporation decides to give the PS5 Pro a hefty price tag and not lower the costs of the PS5 disc/digital models and try to insult its customer base…it means your company is incredibly savvy, or incredibly stupid. But in your case (and Sony’s), I’m seeing stupid more than savvy.
@@legiran9564 so whats different from a normal ps5 on a ps5 pro no disk drive so basically u r paying over 800 for no disc drive wow what is good about that
@@BrandonRaske If you bought a physical games for the PS5 you can throw all those games in a trash bin because the Pro got no drive. Or you can buy the disk drive separately which will bring your price to 800 or over if you include installation fees. Or just use the 800 and buy a PC.
@@BrandonRaske They will not do physical because it will be more expensive to produce the drive and disks. Going digital has a higher profit margin for Sony which means the PS6 will have no disk drive either. Welcome to the future.
"Futureproofing" Saying after buying a marginally better model 4 years after the original released and 2 years after people could actually purchase it.
The Neo Geo, 3DO, and PS3 all learned the hard way that a higher price tag means less sales. Sony's worse at learning from their mistakes than Timmy Turner.
Sony has already learned one thing: follow the example of the scalpers. I live in Europe and for a full pro (with disk and vertical stand) you pay more than 1000 USD here. For that price I would give my gaming-pc a major upgrade. I like the PS5 for its compact form factor, but if that pricing continues, it will become 100% pc gaming
If you want the "full experience" (stand, disc unit, all that jazz) the thing will cost you 800 something smackaroos plus PSN fee. Then you will be able to enjoy your 800P Sony's scam in all its, ahem, "glory" also know as being able to play PS4 games but slighty improved. Ponies are really out of their minds.😅
Considering how big of a scam the ps5 pro controller is I am not surprised by how lackluster the ps5 pro is. If they included the stand, disc drive and an actual upgraded gamepad with hall sensors than it would actually have been a solid deal. This is just a slap in the face to Sony fanboys and the fact that people will defend it is hilarious.
I love the "enthusiast" argument cause it makes no sense. Most, if not all, enthusiast gamers get or build a pc cause they can play any game they went at better resolution and fps.
As a long time PlayStation fan, I'll be among the first to grab popcorn when Sony gets humbled. "Pro" consoles completely miss the point of console gaming. Its supposed to be simple. Its where physical media SHOULD be king. They miss the mark on both those points.
I won't lie, I honestly thought about upgrading to a PS5 Pro, up until the price was revealed. I saw $799 and my immediate response was, "is this a joke? 800 for a minor graphics upgrade?" From what I understand, the new GPU is a pretty good upgrade, but certainly not $300 good. I might be wrong, though. Edit: the GPU is what's being upgraded, my bad guys.
The only reason I bought a PS4 Pro was because I didn’t have a PS4 at the time. Think I’ll be waiting on the PS6. I’ll only get it if it has a disc drive though. Otherwise I’ll stick with PC gaming.
They are already prototyping the PS6 as we speak and odds are very strong that the PS6 will not have a Disk Drive. Sony is pushing for full digital games.
Every time a new thing comes out that looks awful were always told "it's not meant for you" Then who is it meant for? It's a mass produced mainstream console using casual games like Spider-Man and Ratchet to market it that will be sold and advertised at Walmarts around the world. If it's not meant for the general consumer then who is it for and why are they acting like it's meant to be there for the general consumer?
Hold tf up. Did that shit really say tlou2 was running at 840p 60fps??? If that’s true than wtf is the point of this thing? The way they presented it was you’d get 4k 60 on everything
"The biggest advantage console has had over PC is price to performance.", I'd add not having to tinker with hardware, operating systems, and worry about viruses to that.
On Twitter the other day I saw people blaming the government for these high prices sure we have taxes but it's silly argument still. It's silly defending Sony because tax.
8:13 there’s no lack of competition bro. If that were true, why did Jim Ryan fly all over the world shouting “the sky is falling!” a couple years ago??? Sony just knows their fanboys ignore Xbox completely unless they’re gonna talk shit.
I am a big PlayStation fan; however, I see the PS5 Pro as pointless upgrade, especially if you already use the disc reader as you'll need to fork over almost $80 if you want to still play the games you have on disc or be able to watch Blu-ray and DVD movies without needing to buy a Blu-ray player. My main questions are: (1) Why is it significantly more money than the OG PS5 or the slim model? (2) Why was the CPU not given a significant upgrade? (3) Why is there no PS5 Pro going to be available with a disc drive already included? This does not seem there is difference like the difference between a PS4 and PS4 Pro. I really hope this backfires on Sony.
I'm jealous of one thing. I'm jealous of Sony mining these suckers' wallets with such complete savagery, while the people being scammed are denying being scammed despite it being so excruciatingly obvious.
@@ELpeaceonearth I splurged for the 4090 due to VR and stuff (and AMD requires twice the VRAM for near the same performance), but I'm good until the 6xxx series or 7xxx series. This was an upgrade from a 2080.. I see it lasting a while since so many new games are going to DLSS/FSD versus actually coding them properly.
Steve from Gamers Nexus once said that 1% price increase per 1% performance boost is stagnation, not to mention that 1) 864p60 is about the same performance you got with an rx 6700 or rx 7600 2) the percentages on the PS5 Pro are worst its 75%/1.21% price increase per 45%/1% performance boost (Digital OG PS5 its about 400, Digital its 700)
what sent my sides into orbit was someone tried to make a point 'nobody is gonna buy this at 700 dollars.. well the 3DO would like a word with you' .... not only did that release in a different time, but the console flopped. why would you EVER use that as comparison, if anything, it makes the pro's price look worse lmao though tbh, what else did I expect from people who think they're going to release games exclusively on the ps5 pro. lol
I always hate it when they say "this doesn't effect you", cause it does. Rewarding industry shenanigans (something that sadly has become a standard since gaming became mainstream) only will lead to them raising that and others bars; and raising over the entire spectrum. Nor am I buying the "enthusiast argument", not that I consider PS to be a luxury brand like ponies tend to do. But when a real luxury brands release something for their purist customers, they actually make it worth their while. Not to mention those kind of customers wouldn't accept it either if they don' t make good on their promises. And indeed shortly after the release of the PS5, SIE was stated that they weren't making a loss on every unit sold. So the argument that they don't want to sell it at loss anymore, doesn't fit the bill either in this context. And although they sold the PS5 at a profit, it didn't lived up to expectations. Since we know PS want players to leave their PS4' s behind, it doesn't make sense to release something only for their purist customers than.
He's so obsessed with 60 fps but won't spend on a PC instead, which has been given 60fps for a decade or so Edit: It's actually so stupid that dudes like him would pay 300$ for a "slight improvement" but in reality if you go from a 2060 Super to a 3070, you can literally go from a 1080p 60fps to a literal 1440p 60 fps experience for 100-120$ more
What gets me is they thought the Pro would equal a 4090... Im an Xbox guy going PC soon and even I know the next Gen consoles won't match the 4090. And it by itself on the $2k models is almost as much as my entire PC build which isn't no slouch.
I'd rather just waste my money buying 1 Q-tip for £700, except I'll buy the digital version that has no cotton, only the stick.. Might just do it out of pure spite and put it where I'd have put my consoles..
I would love to see that person keeping that same energy if that person was anywhere outside the US. Because you do know that the price for the ps5 pro is somehow worse.
The recession excuse is completely the opposite. The cost of living is growing faster than wages. Interest rates are increasing to make people LESS able to buy things to make companies drop prices to PREVENT a recession. A console that is this expensive is the problem... Also have a look at the price of a PS5 here in Australia then compare it to the pre-order price on the PS5 Pro. It's a fun little thought experiment
¥119,850 = £659 €799 = £850 $699 =£590 £699 = $913 = €850 = $913 The money I was going to spend on the Pro is now going on a second hand Digital edition which will be jailbreaked. Single player games for free.
It's double the price but not double the power or performance. If it was an extra $150 or something like that then it would be reasonably priced, you could push the boat out a bit for the upgrade to the base model. You're only wasting about $250 for nothing if you look at it that way.
If the PS5 was an open platform and was less restricted in terms of game exclusivity? Then $700 would be somewhat justified. If you can completely customise which services and even system OS to install. That would be infinitely better than what Sony is currently trying to market.
The real scam is the people who have had the highest tier PSN sub since day 1 of PS5. $160/year x 4 Year = $640 to make use of the $500 console. That is $1140, now tack on $700 for the Pro, $30 for the Stand and $80 for the disc drive and that's another $810. That puts us at $1950.00 and the PS6 wont be until at earlier summer or more likely November of 2025 with it being more likely some time in 2026. So add on another $320 for PSN... And we arrive at the Sony "Enthusiast" spending $2270.00 USD without even factoring in games or a monitor cost. For that same amount back at the release of the PS5 in 2020 instead you could have had a PC with a Ryzen 5800X, RTX 3090, 32 GB of DDR4 and a 2 TB M.2 which smokes anything PS is doing with this thing without even sweating... Or in today's market you could comfortably build a 4K beast with a Ryzen 7600X and RTX 4080 Super with 2 TB M.2 and 32 GB of DDR Ram. Keeping in mind that PC would out perform Sony's next 2-3 consoles gens.
Keeping the Standard PS5 Never going to waist money on the PS5 Pro and To sell a stand and the dicsdrive separately is unforgivable in my opinion. From UK And I m not supporting the PS5 pro Rather get a steamdeck instead With that kind of money
I was waiting to upgrade my PS4 Pro when the PS5 Pro released. Thank whatever, that I built a PC back in 2020. I upgraded my PC once I saw the $700 tag. Yes my PC was much more expensive, but it was worth it… This is the first PS Generation I’ll completely skip. I’m not happy about it…. 🤷🏾♂️
“It will sell well” ok so they buy stuff because it’s popular regardless of quality, what an argument Also I’d like to add I feel like they’re starting to treat consoles like cameras. “Oh you can get a cheap base one but if you want the real good stuff they’ll be way more” it’s a video game console, I really don’t know how much higher the price ceiling can go considering this just plays video games and movies. For the same price you get a pc that does the same and you can edit videos, buy older gen games, not pay to play online etc
You think the EU and UK prices suck, us South Africans are paying PS5 Pro prices for the base PS5($856 conversion), imagine how much we are gonna pay for the pro
the sad thing is, he's right. people will buy it no matter what, we can make fun of it, but in the end i promise you it will sell regardless , and nothing will change
I have the PS4(PRO), and I don't think it was a scam when I bought it. At that point in the generation, the base PS4 had been showing problems in certain games. It could be a below 1080p resolution that would look soft to my eyes, or a framerate that had problems hitting it's target. Be it 30 or 60. The difference was the price. I managed to get a christmas deal on my model, and paid 360$ for it. But even it I had to pay the full 400$ for it, it would still be a good deal. After the base console was already 4 years on the market. But with the PS5(PRO), the price of 700$-800$ + is just a greedy joke. It's basically the same greedy move that Nvidia made with the Geforce 4000. Where you don't get any improvement to performance, at the same price as the last generation. So that's why a 4060 Ti, is minimally faster than a 3060 Ti. And costs the same 400$. Where as the 500$ 70 class GPU from last generation,, got replaced by a 600$ + price point(the + is for different vendor price/country you live in). The whole industry is garbage at this point, if they can't offer you any decent upgrade in 4 years. At the same or slightly higher price point. The base PS5 is still not reduced, and prob never will. Also you have to remember. When you are comparing the price of the PRO model to the base one. We have to compare it to the digital edition, that has no disc drive. So in essence a PS5(PRO) is at minimum "300$ +" over a base PS5. Lastly. A normal 4060 is not better than a PS5(PRO) if we are talking GPU speed/raster. At this crazy point in out current console generation. It's just better to take that 700$, add another 300$ to it. And build a decent mid-range rig. You are gonna save so much cash with the better gaming deals on the PC store fronts. Like Steam for example. Plus all the other things a PC gives you, over a machince that's only made for gaming.
the playstation portal DID NOT SELL WELL. it sold only half a million units, and the psedge was the bestselling accessory of last year... in march and ONLY march.
My favorite part are fanboys who'll screech "You don't know hardware!" and swear this thing will outperform a gaming PC with some sort of sci-fi technology that only Sony has the know-how to. Meanwhile Remedy says Alan Wake 2 will run at an internal resolution of 864p with no raytracing, on this magical PS5 Pro. Truly a scientific achievement... (I feel, thanks to AI upscaling, we're quickly returning to late 90s/early 2000s resolutions).
@@evacody1249 Yea but Cerny doesn't call it that. He only referenced the RDNA generation and even that part isn't entirely true. He calls it RDNA 4 and hypes it to high heavens, claiming it's stuff not available in mainstream AMD chips. AMD themselves calls it "RDNA 3.5" or "Somewhere between RDNA 2 and RDNA 3" because it's not RDNA 4 but only uses one feature that MIGHT end up in RDNA 4 in this exact same way.
Oh s***, thx for reminding me that you can't use your old discdrive without deregister for the new ps5, so is that bad because the 60fps is not guaranteed for the new ps5 pro
that price..& it ships with the shitty potentiometer analog controller..they could've made the pro controller a hall effect to stop the stick drift problem
Wait so they said you could open your ps5 and take out the disc drive ? Or was there already a external disc drive. Would not be the best idea considering the fact that it's liquid metal cooled and apparently very prone to leaking if the ps5 is opened in any way .
@@grthjryrd7552 why aren't you a sunshine , no i don't own a PS5 so guess what i'm guessing but last i checked the disc drive of the ps5 is rather deep and non removable and then someone saying oh you need to remove the disc drive questions are gonna be raised . now sony could have used most of the metal of the ps5 as a heatsink so the main cooler on the CPU/GPU can be stuck to the main metal which means to get in the ps5 you need to also need to instantly remove the main heatsink which causes the issues other people have been getting that the liquid metal leaked into the rest of the PS5 essentially ending the PS5 permanently . again all guessing cause i don't know what a PS5 looks like under all the plastic .
It's so funny how these Ponies defend EVERYTHING Sony does. A pc 3 times more expensive all of a sudden? Lol. I have a lenovo yoga pro 9i for 1000.. with an RTX 4060. Ps5 pro in Europe will be like 900 Euros
In Australia the ps5 pro is 1200 from ebgames I can buy a gaming pc for 1500 from the same shop honestly I would rather buy a gaming pc this may be the last PlayStation I may ever buy
This funny Cat Man, Josh sounds like one real cool guy 😎 subscribe to him you say?
I'll ask all of the cats in my local area to subscribe.
@@matthewhardwick8208 based. 🤌🏻
Series x SpongeBob edition was 700. Is that a scam too?
@@JiV-c1g yes.
@@JiV-c1g yes.
"Stop asking questions. Just consume product and be exited for next product"
Go ahead dumb ass lol
Oh get over it already. You’re just as much as a consumer as anyone here. If you weren’t you wouldn’t have any games or be talking about this.
@@SKOTxFREE. This is not an argument.
@@SKOTxFREE We're all consumers. I happen to be a smart consumer with the ability to say no and you just happen to be a dumb one.
@@SKOTxFREE All I hear from you is "Harder Sony fuck me in the ass harder."
Sony never really changed. In 2006, after their first console sold 100+ million and their second console sold 150+ million, outselling all of their competition, they believed the market became theirs and they could set whatever price they wanted and be as anti-consumer as possible, and that people would still buy it because of the “PlayStation” brand. They were wrong, had to change course around 2009/2010, and spent half a decade rebuilding good will. The PS4 was very successful, and mid-way through its generation, Sony began a mass censorship campaign and didn’t get enough pushback. Now they’re right back to charging outrageous prices, yet, unfortunately, there are too many people defending them this time.
The only difference is now they don't think they have to release games anymore.
@@thunderflare59 they didn’t back then either
the ps3 was the price it was because of the blu ray drive. xbox had an hd dvd add on that was 150 iirc. i had both systems but i did not invest in the hd dvd.
my boss even complained about the price [ps3] until he bought one and noticed all of things it could do, he had both systems also.
>there are too many people defending them
Literally where
@@grthjryrd7552 On youtube; there’s plenty of videos of sony fanboys defending this PoS
PS5 Pro is pure bullshit. I paid 500€ for my PS5 with a disc drive and stand. Now in Finland PS5 pro is 800€+130€ for disc drive+30€ for vertical stand, so it's 960€(1068$), not buying that shit.
Sold mine not looking back. Pc and xbsx was the route i went.
@@R0bertCc sorry to hear that. Missed out on astrobot, psvr2, and the entire ps4 library and its value. Xbox is a barren wasteland, actually zero games
Zen 2 is already old tech. AMD is at Zen 5 as of writing which is significantly faster per clock cycle.
Also do you think GTA6 will run smooth on the PS5 Pro? GTA6 is CPU heavy because it simulates an entire city.
I can see Sony advertise the PS6 for the best GTA6 experience. Just WATCH! Sorry suckers who jumped to buy the Pro.🤣
If you think it won’t run well on the Pro I have a bridge to sell you. You’re delusional.
$700 (almost$800 if you want to use your discs and want a vertical stand) just to be able to see things that are 50ft away more clearly.
At least I'll finally see what color the Bugatti 12 blocks away from me is
It’s actually more than $800 😂
It's absolutely lunacy, this is hardware from before 2018 when the dev kits where given to developers. These consoles should be like $300-$400 maximum with a outdated blue ray disc and stand obviously.
@@bjarnis agree
@@bjarnisAn RTX 3070 would probably bulldoze this piece of junk. PS5 is 1440p at medium settings anyways with exaggerated 4K that’s not even native. It’s upscaled to the high heavens 🤣 .
Sincerely, A PC gamer with a base PS5 that collects dust.
ps5 pro does not need to exist
actually, this does affect me because if the pro is successful this gives sony the greenlight to keep raising prices on their products, this gives microsoft the ok to raise prices, it gives nividia to raise prices, it gives apple the ok to raise prices. This literally effects everyone look at what happen when take two and sony rose price of games to $70 dollars other game publishers started to do it even nintendo
they made ONE $70 game because it took too long to develop. theyre literally back to $60 games 😭
@@joogled1839 Which does not matter because they STARTED that "trend" and we are seeing that again, they are artificially inflating the price of a piece of hardware that is effectively 6 years old. If people accept this other companies will soon start following this stupidiy because they see that costumers are stupid enough to buy it anyways.
@@joogled1839 Literally every first party game & many others are 69.99, what are you even talking about ?
@@joogled1839 You are talking out of your butt.
@@wolfrayet0042 ??? party game???
In the UK, the trade-in price for PS 5 is £170 .
They devalue worse than a car does
jesus, thats one hell of a drop off
“Fake outrage”? No, Mark Cerny. The outrage is legitimate. If your corporation decides to give the PS5 Pro a hefty price tag and not lower the costs of the PS5 disc/digital models and try to insult its customer base…it means your company is incredibly savvy, or incredibly stupid. But in your case (and Sony’s), I’m seeing stupid more than savvy.
It's actually a $300 difference because it's comparable to the PS5 digital
Thank you. I been trying to tell people that.
so basically u r paying 700 for no upgrades from a normal ps5 how does that make sense
DOWNGRADE because the Pro has no disk drive.
@@legiran9564 so whats different from a normal ps5 on a ps5 pro no disk drive so basically u r paying over 800 for no disc drive wow what is good about that
@@BrandonRaske If you bought a physical games for the PS5 you can throw all those games in a trash bin because the Pro got no drive. Or you can buy the disk drive separately which will bring your price to 800 or over if you include installation fees.
Or just use the 800 and buy a PC.
@@legiran9564 this is why ive been saying why not do both physically and digital
@@BrandonRaske They will not do physical because it will be more expensive to produce the drive and disks. Going digital has a higher profit margin for Sony which means the PS6 will have no disk drive either. Welcome to the future.
Given the 200 million hole in the ground Concord made for Sony you'd think they'd realize they can't keep pissing away money
"Futureproofing" Saying after buying a marginally better model 4 years after the original released and 2 years after people could actually purchase it.
Waiting for different color Ps5 stands from Sony
(Sold separately ofc)
The Neo Geo, 3DO, and PS3 all learned the hard way that a higher price tag means less sales. Sony's worse at learning from their mistakes than Timmy Turner.
If this guy was told eating dirt was good for his digestive system I feel like he's defend it...
Eating good soil would actually be good for your digestive system because of the microbes.
@@craciunator99 and there it is.....
@@Eagle-ci9dr Never said you had to like it, just that it may be good for you. Although I doubt it
More like if this guy was told eating garbage is good for your digestive system he would defend it
Just slap on a PS logo
It can't be seen as a luxury option when it doesn't come with the stand or the disk drive.
where does sony say this is a luxury option?
Sony has already learned one thing: follow the example of the scalpers. I live in Europe and for a full pro (with disk and vertical stand) you pay more than 1000 USD here. For that price I would give my gaming-pc a major upgrade. I like the PS5 for its compact form factor, but if that pricing continues, it will become 100% pc gaming
They keep saying the price matches inflation, but they forget most people salaries haven’t matched inflation.
If you want the "full experience" (stand, disc unit, all that jazz) the thing will cost you 800 something smackaroos plus PSN fee. Then you will be able to enjoy your 800P Sony's scam in all its, ahem, "glory" also know as being able to play PS4 games but slighty improved. Ponies are really out of their minds.😅
BRITISH ACCENT DETECTED! ACTIVATE TEA DUMPING IN HARBOR PROTOCOLS! lol
Hey dont you dare do that to the most Spiffing of drinks 😂😂😂.
Further proof the Americans are all thick cunts who need to shut the hell up.
Don't be wasting it like that..
Drinking it yourself with your American mouth would hurt more😢..
I really expected 600 for the complete console, but I was wrong.
ps5 pro should have all PS titles backwards compatibility and build in disc drive with vertical stand...for $599 max
Considering how big of a scam the ps5 pro controller is I am not surprised by how lackluster the ps5 pro is. If they included the stand, disc drive and an actual upgraded gamepad with hall sensors than it would actually have been a solid deal. This is just a slap in the face to Sony fanboys and the fact that people will defend it is hilarious.
It's funny that Sony showed cross gen games for the pro😂
I love the "enthusiast" argument cause it makes no sense. Most, if not all, enthusiast gamers get or build a pc cause they can play any game they went at better resolution and fps.
Honestly, as a pc gamer, i couldn't imagine playing a game at 30 fps.
As a long time PlayStation fan, I'll be among the first to grab popcorn when Sony gets humbled. "Pro" consoles completely miss the point of console gaming. Its supposed to be simple. Its where physical media SHOULD be king. They miss the mark on both those points.
I won't lie, I honestly thought about upgrading to a PS5 Pro, up until the price was revealed. I saw $799 and my immediate response was, "is this a joke? 800 for a minor graphics upgrade?" From what I understand, the new GPU is a pretty good upgrade, but certainly not $300 good. I might be wrong, though.
Edit: the GPU is what's being upgraded, my bad guys.
No, the CPU remains the same, meaning 30 FPS remains.
Same, I saw the 1200 AUD price and was like jesus wtf why is it double a base Ps5
Same cpu
The only reason I bought a PS4 Pro was because I didn’t have a PS4 at the time. Think I’ll be waiting on the PS6. I’ll only get it if it has a disc drive though. Otherwise I’ll stick with PC gaming.
They are already prototyping the PS6 as we speak and odds are very strong that the PS6 will not have a Disk Drive. Sony is pushing for full digital games.
Nah id sell the ps4 pro and get a ps5.
@@grthjryrd7552 I already have a PS5.
@@jakedizzle sell the ps4 then, zero point in having it
Every time a new thing comes out that looks awful were always told "it's not meant for you"
Then who is it meant for? It's a mass produced mainstream console using casual games like Spider-Man and Ratchet to market it that will be sold and advertised at Walmarts around the world. If it's not meant for the general consumer then who is it for and why are they acting like it's meant to be there for the general consumer?
I have a ps5. I’m NOT touching the pro. That is 100 a scam.
Facts. Your still getting a good experience on the console whether you got the pro or not
Hold tf up. Did that shit really say tlou2 was running at 840p 60fps??? If that’s true than wtf is the point of this thing? The way they presented it was you’d get 4k 60 on everything
"The biggest advantage console has had over PC is price to performance.", I'd add not having to tinker with hardware, operating systems, and worry about viruses to that.
Here in europe its 800 euros base, thats without a stand, or a disc drive.
Im fairly sure its like a thousand euros for a complete package
On Twitter the other day I saw people blaming the government for these high prices sure we have taxes but it's silly argument still. It's silly defending Sony because tax.
you know hes insecure about this when every other word are filler words and lip smacking
8:13 there’s no lack of competition bro. If that were true, why did Jim Ryan fly all over the world shouting “the sky is falling!” a couple years ago???
Sony just knows their fanboys ignore Xbox completely unless they’re gonna talk shit.
It's the Xbox Series S's fault the Pro is costing 700 USD (900+ in Europe)
@@definitelynotacyborg well obviously…
the only people that will buy the ps5 pro are the scalpers.
Sony is the scalper.
Not even scalpers want this lol.
@@teamofone1219no they've bought up all the diskdrives Instead
@@johnps1670 sony: Look at me! I am the sculptor now!
I am a big PlayStation fan; however, I see the PS5 Pro as pointless upgrade, especially if you already use the disc reader as you'll need to fork over almost $80 if you want to still play the games you have on disc or be able to watch Blu-ray and DVD movies without needing to buy a Blu-ray player.
My main questions are: (1) Why is it significantly more money than the OG PS5 or the slim model? (2) Why was the CPU not given a significant upgrade? (3) Why is there no PS5 Pro going to be available with a disc drive already included?
This does not seem there is difference like the difference between a PS4 and PS4 Pro.
I really hope this backfires on Sony.
I'm jealous of one thing. I'm jealous of Sony mining these suckers' wallets with such complete savagery, while the people being scammed are denying being scammed despite it being so excruciatingly obvious.
For every smart consumer there's at least ten suckers.
I'm surprised he didn't claim you have to upgrade your pc every year.
@@ELpeaceonearth I splurged for the 4090 due to VR and stuff (and AMD requires twice the VRAM for near the same performance), but I'm good until the 6xxx series or 7xxx series. This was an upgrade from a 2080.. I see it lasting a while since so many new games are going to DLSS/FSD versus actually coding them properly.
an enthusiast system I almost have a lot of my chair lmao that's like saying shoe lifts are for people that are height enthusiast
Steve from Gamers Nexus once said that 1% price increase per 1% performance boost is stagnation, not to mention that 1) 864p60 is about the same performance you got with an rx 6700 or rx 7600 2) the percentages on the PS5 Pro are worst its 75%/1.21% price increase per 45%/1% performance boost (Digital OG PS5 its about 400, Digital its 700)
what sent my sides into orbit was someone tried to make a point 'nobody is gonna buy this at 700 dollars.. well the 3DO would like a word with you' .... not only did that release in a different time, but the console flopped. why would you EVER use that as comparison, if anything, it makes the pro's price look worse lmao
though tbh, what else did I expect from people who think they're going to release games exclusively on the ps5 pro. lol
Why are they so desperate to waste money?
It sucks but it will sold out anyway. There are a lot of mindless NPCs out there.. Its the same as people overpaying for Apple crap...
I always hate it when they say "this doesn't effect you", cause it does. Rewarding industry shenanigans (something that sadly has become a standard since gaming became mainstream) only will lead to them raising that and others bars; and raising over the entire spectrum. Nor am I buying the "enthusiast argument", not that I consider PS to be a luxury brand like ponies tend to do. But when a real luxury brands release something for their purist customers, they actually make it worth their while. Not to mention those kind of customers wouldn't accept it either if they don' t make good on their promises.
And indeed shortly after the release of the PS5, SIE was stated that they weren't making a loss on every unit sold. So the argument that they don't want to sell it at loss anymore, doesn't fit the bill either in this context. And although they sold the PS5 at a profit, it didn't lived up to expectations. Since we know PS want players to leave their PS4' s behind, it doesn't make sense to release something only for their purist customers than.
The scalpers in Atlanta went crazy on the PS5,looks like scalpers are going to be selling the disc drives this time
He's so obsessed with 60 fps but won't spend on a PC instead, which has been given 60fps for a decade or so
Edit: It's actually so stupid that dudes like him would pay 300$ for a "slight improvement" but in reality if you go from a 2060 Super to a 3070, you can literally go from a 1080p 60fps to a literal 1440p 60 fps experience for 100-120$ more
The nes played games at 60 fps
In Australia, it will cost $1,360 with a disc drive. Makes US pricing look good. Oh yes Sony bumped up the price of controllers as well ...
What gets me is they thought the Pro would equal a 4090... Im an Xbox guy going PC soon and even I know the next Gen consoles won't match the 4090. And it by itself on the $2k models is almost as much as my entire PC build which isn't no slouch.
It's their lack of understanding PC hardware.
I'd rather just waste my money buying 1 Q-tip for £700, except I'll buy the digital version that has no cotton, only the stick..
Might just do it out of pure spite and put it where I'd have put my consoles..
I would love to see that person keeping that same energy if that person was anywhere outside the US.
Because you do know that the price for the ps5 pro is somehow worse.
I find it funny it off everything this guy didn't use the "is rdna4 that even the largest pcs don't have" argument
The recession excuse is completely the opposite. The cost of living is growing faster than wages. Interest rates are increasing to make people LESS able to buy things to make companies drop prices to PREVENT a recession. A console that is this expensive is the problem...
Also have a look at the price of a PS5 here in Australia then compare it to the pre-order price on the PS5 Pro. It's a fun little thought experiment
Overwhelming majority of people hate something and this is easily proven? Nah, it's fake.
They act like it's something special" with the specs we are getting it should be $700" lol bunch of idiots
What's funny is it still has Zen2.
¥119,850 = £659
€799 = £850
$699 =£590
£699 = $913
= €850
= $913
The money I was going to spend on the Pro is now going on a second hand Digital edition which will be jailbreaked. Single player games for free.
Most games aren't going to be 60fps on the PS5 pro what over price of shit
Remember that NIB blamed xbox for increasing the PS5 Pro price.
It's double the price but not double the power or performance. If it was an extra $150 or something like that then it would be reasonably priced, you could push the boat out a bit for the upgrade to the base model. You're only wasting about $250 for nothing if you look at it that way.
If the PS5 was an open platform and was less restricted in terms of game exclusivity? Then $700 would be somewhat justified. If you can completely customise which services and even system OS to install. That would be infinitely better than what Sony is currently trying to market.
For 900 I can build a PC that beats the PS5 Pro.
Since the PS5 and PS5 Pro are still using a Zen 2 CPU from 2019.
The real scam is the people who have had the highest tier PSN sub since day 1 of PS5. $160/year x 4 Year = $640 to make use of the $500 console. That is $1140, now tack on $700 for the Pro, $30 for the Stand and $80 for the disc drive and that's another $810. That puts us at $1950.00 and the PS6 wont be until at earlier summer or more likely November of 2025 with it being more likely some time in 2026. So add on another $320 for PSN... And we arrive at the Sony "Enthusiast" spending $2270.00 USD without even factoring in games or a monitor cost. For that same amount back at the release of the PS5 in 2020 instead you could have had a PC with a Ryzen 5800X, RTX 3090, 32 GB of DDR4 and a 2 TB M.2 which smokes anything PS is doing with this thing without even sweating... Or in today's market you could comfortably build a 4K beast with a Ryzen 7600X and RTX 4080 Super with 2 TB M.2 and 32 GB of DDR Ram. Keeping in mind that PC would out perform Sony's next 2-3 consoles gens.
console gamers dont care about graphics and frames they say, yet they hype/defend & buy "pro" consoles. The irony
its not even an upgrade its just an overclock and an A I integration
Keeping the Standard PS5 Never going to waist money on the PS5 Pro and To sell a stand and the dicsdrive separately is unforgivable in my opinion.
From UK And I m not supporting the PS5 pro Rather get a steamdeck instead With that kind of money
BTW, here in Brasil this shit box is gonna cost R$ 3500.00. Sony suck.
Sony can't take my money fast enough
For 700 to be worth it the 2tb is nice, but it also needs to include a
Pro Controller
System Stand
Disk Reader Already Installed
I was waiting to upgrade my PS4 Pro when the PS5 Pro released. Thank whatever, that I built a PC back in 2020. I upgraded my PC once I saw the $700 tag. Yes my PC was much more expensive, but it was worth it… This is the first PS Generation I’ll completely skip. I’m not happy about it…. 🤷🏾♂️
I don't mind being screwed, but being GIGAscrewed? nah
You actually predicted the bad Griffin take...
I usually buy every new model for playstation and I even see this thing as stupid and not worth it
PS5 Pro is only a deal if it is your first console you ever bought, if you already have a PS5 then you are wasting your money.
“It will sell well” ok so they buy stuff because it’s popular regardless of quality, what an argument
Also I’d like to add I feel like they’re starting to treat consoles like cameras. “Oh you can get a cheap base one but if you want the real good stuff they’ll be way more” it’s a video game console, I really don’t know how much higher the price ceiling can go considering this just plays video games and movies. For the same price you get a pc that does the same and you can edit videos, buy older gen games, not pay to play online etc
I’m getting a pro, I want one, am I gonna defend the price? No.
You think the EU and UK prices suck, us South Africans are paying PS5 Pro prices for the base PS5($856 conversion), imagine how much we are gonna pay for the pro
the sad thing is, he's right. people will buy it no matter what, we can make fun of it, but in the end i promise you it will sell regardless , and nothing will change
I have the PS4(PRO), and I don't think it was a scam when I bought it. At that point in the generation, the base PS4 had been showing problems in certain games. It could be a below 1080p resolution that would look soft to my eyes, or a framerate that had problems hitting it's target. Be it 30 or 60. The difference was the price. I managed to get a christmas deal on my model, and paid 360$ for it. But even it I had to pay the full 400$ for it, it would still be a good deal. After the base console was already 4 years on the market.
But with the PS5(PRO), the price of 700$-800$ + is just a greedy joke. It's basically the same greedy move that Nvidia made with the Geforce 4000. Where you don't get any improvement to performance, at the same price as the last generation. So that's why a 4060 Ti, is minimally faster than a 3060 Ti. And costs the same 400$. Where as the 500$ 70 class GPU from last generation,, got replaced by a 600$ + price point(the + is for different vendor price/country you live in).
The whole industry is garbage at this point, if they can't offer you any decent upgrade in 4 years. At the same or slightly higher price point. The base PS5 is still not reduced, and prob never will. Also you have to remember. When you are comparing the price of the PRO model to the base one. We have to compare it to the digital edition, that has no disc drive. So in essence a PS5(PRO) is at minimum "300$ +" over a base PS5.
Lastly. A normal 4060 is not better than a PS5(PRO) if we are talking GPU speed/raster. At this crazy point in out current console generation. It's just better to take that 700$, add another 300$ to it. And build a decent mid-range rig. You are gonna save so much cash with the better gaming deals on the PC store fronts. Like Steam for example. Plus all the other things a PC gives you, over a machince that's only made for gaming.
the playstation portal DID NOT SELL WELL. it sold only half a million units, and the psedge was the bestselling accessory of last year... in march and ONLY march.
I really hope the ps5 pro fails in sales it's trash 🗑 Sony is greedy. I'm not buying, and I have a ps5 disk console
Sony thinks they can pull an Apple, and we don't even like it when apple does it!😂
I don’t don’t know how can anyone even defend the ps5 pro like seriously go for pc for that price at this point
Would be funny if PS6 launches in just two years after PS5 Pro
Sounds like he's after a P.T.S.D 5 pro
So @GamersNexus showed the ps5 benchmarked as a 1070, a 1080 when its really optimised, even 40% more perfs would be outdated perfs at that price.
I don't get it.. how could you understand his speech when he was arguing why getting scammed was ok while simultaneously glazing Sony?
My favorite part are fanboys who'll screech "You don't know hardware!" and swear this thing will outperform a gaming PC with some sort of sci-fi technology that only Sony has the know-how to.
Meanwhile Remedy says Alan Wake 2 will run at an internal resolution of 864p with no raytracing, on this magical PS5 Pro. Truly a scientific achievement...
(I feel, thanks to AI upscaling, we're quickly returning to late 90s/early 2000s resolutions).
The whole time, they don't understand that Zen 2 came out in 2019.
@@evacody1249 Yea but Cerny doesn't call it that. He only referenced the RDNA generation and even that part isn't entirely true.
He calls it RDNA 4 and hypes it to high heavens, claiming it's stuff not available in mainstream AMD chips. AMD themselves calls it "RDNA 3.5" or "Somewhere between RDNA 2 and RDNA 3" because it's not RDNA 4 but only uses one feature that MIGHT end up in RDNA 4 in this exact same way.
Oh s***, thx for reminding me that you can't use your old discdrive without deregister for the new ps5, so is that bad because the 60fps is not guaranteed for the new ps5 pro
PS5 Pro is a 6090 for 800 bucks already available in 2024 and can shit gold bars
that price..& it ships with the shitty potentiometer analog controller..they could've made the pro controller a hall effect to stop the stick drift problem
Yeah… ponies aren’t technically savvy are they.. awwww, bless their little hearts
The trade in is going to be $100-$150
ps5 pro can cost 1000 or 1500 and fanboys would still cap for it
I ain't defending the price, but they said you could take your disk drive off your base model and use it on the pro.
Wait so they said you could open your ps5 and take out the disc drive ? Or was there already a external disc drive. Would not be the best idea considering the fact that it's liquid metal cooled and apparently very prone to leaking if the ps5 is opened in any way .
@@Reploid-dj9jc i dont think you ever seen a machine in your life lmao. Yeah the paste is gonna be in between on every piece like a sandwich
@@grthjryrd7552 why aren't you a sunshine , no i don't own a PS5 so guess what i'm guessing but last i checked the disc drive of the ps5 is rather deep and non removable and then someone saying oh you need to remove the disc drive questions are gonna be raised . now sony could have used most of the metal of the ps5 as a heatsink so the main cooler on the CPU/GPU can be stuck to the main metal which means to get in the ps5 you need to also need to instantly remove the main heatsink which causes the issues other people have been getting that the liquid metal leaked into the rest of the PS5 essentially ending the PS5 permanently . again all guessing cause i don't know what a PS5 looks like under all the plastic .
It's so funny how these Ponies defend EVERYTHING Sony does. A pc 3 times more expensive all of a sudden? Lol. I have a lenovo yoga pro 9i for 1000.. with an RTX 4060. Ps5 pro in Europe will be like 900 Euros
In Australia the ps5 pro is 1200 from ebgames I can buy a gaming pc for 1500 from the same shop honestly I would rather buy a gaming pc this may be the last PlayStation I may ever buy
It's like saying Apple has no competition so they charge more. Get real