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From: rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge)
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Subject: Re: PS5 Pro WTF Sony
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:21:48 -0000 (UTC)
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Werner P. <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:
>Seems like Sony is back to its arrogance before fall... again!
>PS5 Pro: 700 USD/800 Euros and that without stand and without drive
>you can buy both items extra!
>
>They will never learn, or the persons responsible for the PS3 are all 
>retired by now!

I'm afraid that this is simply expected, the way the video console
industry was always going to go as it matured.  Selling consoles at a
loss no longer makes financial sense, game license fees can't make up
for the difference.  Technological progress isn't driving down chip
prices like it used to, instead inflation has increased costs all around.

It's also natural for consumer electonics markets to be stratified into
expensinve high-end devices for people who can afford them and cheaper
devices for who can't.  Even if the difference in functionality and
production cost is much smaller than the difference in price would
indicate.

At least with the PlayStation 5 Pro you're getting something that's going
to cost Sony not that much less than $700 to make and sell.  Unlike say
a high-end TV which costs Sony about the same to make as a low-end TV
at half the price.  Wether that new AMD GPU chip will deliver enough of
a noticible increase in graphics quality to make it worth the price is
almost beside the point.  The real value for many people will come from
sense of status it gives them.  Just like when they spend hundreds of
dollars on cosmetics in a game or buy an expensive high-end Sony TV.

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