How much will the PS6 cost?

Based on the $699 USD Pro, how much do you think the PS6 will launch for?

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Go_Ly_Dow said:
I fear the PS6 won't launch with a disc drive or even have one as an option.
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I fear that the new standard in the next gen will be to keep it as an Add-on only.
I dont believe doing away with it entirely is coming next gen.

What we are seeing is a beta test.
 
I'm going to say $649 but with the caveat that there's only a digital version and stands or disc drive come extra.

It'll be $699 if the Pro sells out.
 
At this rate you may aswell just save that bit extra and buy a powerful pc, particularly if Sony continues to release its content on it and especially if the timeframe between console to pc ports narrows.

PS6, who knows, components will continue to increase in price but Sony knows releasing it at anything akin to today's announcement will be suicide. Between $500-650 with Sony taking a huge loss on each unit.
 
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Assuming it's digital only with the option to buy a separate disk drive, my bet is:

$649.99 Digital + option to buy Disk Drive separately at $99.99
(€699.99 in EU for some reason with Disk Drive at €119.99)

And for extra fun, I predict:

$799.99 for the PS6 Pro Digital
(€899.99 in EU)
 
It all depends on how well the PS5 Pro does. If it sells well, I'd imagine they sell it around the same price... or slightly more. If it sells well below expectations, they'd have to rethink their strategy on the pricing.
 
Hard to say, but I fully expect the disc drive SKU to be priced even higher than it is now. They want people to move to digital-only to a) move all physical people to their digital ecosystem and lock them in, and b) to slowly eliminate used game sales, since they earn nothing from that.

I don't think they won't offer a disc drive, there are still countries like Germany where DSL is considered to be "cutting edge".
 
$700 for the Pro with likely no price drop by 2026 as PS5 hasn't dropped from its original price. Heck Switch is still its original price and so is the Series line of consoles.

Unless they discontinue the Pro, how will they justify the $700 price if a new, more powerful, console releases that's cheaper or same price? PS6 won't be $499 like PS5(if it is it would barely be better than the Pro) but $599 would still be hard with the Pro being $699 unless they just stop selling the Pro all together but that seems like it would cause problems with optics.

PS6 just seems like it won't be a huge jump(well CPU wise sure) from the Pro with them having to focus on a balance of power and price OR it will be PS3 levels of price shock.

It's all just speculation about the future but prices aren't coming down for anything. First gen where none of the consoles have had permanent price cuts and PC isn't any better price wise. Ugh...
 
They have no competition in the living room. All the folks dancing on Xbox grave (myself included for a time) this is the future. No incentive to have or maintain a competitive price.
 
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They have no competition in the living room. All the folks dancing on Xbox grave (myself included for a time) this is the future. No incentive to have or maintain a competitive price.
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That isn't it. If that was the case why hasn't Nintendo dropped pricing? They always do but not this gen. Seems more like other factors.
 
Consoles early on are always sold at a loss so hopefully this is just a buck in the trend to recoup money but on the opposite side with the ps5 pro announcement, I wouldn't rule out or hesitate to buy....

Introducing steambox, two tier pricing | a console with steam os and gamepass available solo | console aforementioned with steam deck bundle, cover the market.
 
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They have no competition in the living room. All the folks dancing on Xbox grave (myself included for a time) this is the future. No incentive to have or maintain a competitive price.
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The portable pc's will only get better and definitly be competition in living rooms (docked). I'm currently using my Steam Deck docked a lot in my living room.
But those things are way more expensive than anything in the regular console competition, so I guess you're kinda right.
 
It will be cheaper than PS5PRO.. I can bet it will be $499 (Digital)

Quote me if I survived the bans till 2027 lol
 
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Fabieter said:
So we are looking at gen 10 starting in 2030 at the earliest.
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That's very likely, since there's no time to release next games within the next 4 years. Current-gen first parties won't release till 2025-2026, so it's nearly impossible they are ready for PS6 sooner than that unless they are half-assed.
 
Going with the current trend, $799 and disc drive sold separately. Lack of meaningful competition does that to a market.
 
We're now living in the devalued currency future that those of us who've been paying attention knew was coming. Covid just accelerated the arrival.

So no, PS6 is not going to be cheap. And neither is anything else in this industry ever again.
 
Unknown? said:
That isn't it. If that was the case why hasn't Nintendo dropped pricing? They always do but not this gen. Seems more like other factors.
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Nintendo probably hasn't dropped price because there are no other handhelds. No competition, thus no incentive to do price cuts unless sales decline sharply.

Hohenheim said:
The portable pc's will only get better and definitly be competition in living rooms (docked). I'm currently using my Steam Deck docked a lot in my living room.
But those things are way more expensive than anything in the regular console competition, so I guess you're kinda right.
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I was talking specifically about the living room or console space. PC has traditionally been considered a separate space from the living room and thus steam deck being a portable PC, I'm not sure if it belongs in the PC space or the handheld space , or like in your case the living room space?
 
$599 for sure, unless we get more companies making high speed processors, more governance on price fixing, maybe WW3 to reset capitalism
 
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Nintendo probably hasn't dropped price because there are no other handhelds. No competition, thus no incentive to do price cuts unless sales decline sharply.


I was talking specifically about the living room or console space. PC has traditionally been considered a separate space from the living room and thus steam deck being a portable PC, I'm not sure if it belongs in the PC space or the handheld space , or like in your case the living room space?
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Coolest thing about those handhelds is that they belong wherever you want them to be! But yeah, I get your point.
I just think the line between pc and console will fade even more away the next few years
 
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The difference is that a PS6 at $700 will probably be twice as powerful as the PS5 Pro and of course will be their next system and not an upgrade. I thought the Series S was a stupid idea but that might be the only way forward next gen for a lot of people.
 
Madserb2023 said:
The difference is that a PS6 at $700 will probably be twice as powerful as the PS5 Pro and of course will be their next system and not an upgrade. I thought the Series S was a stupid idea but that might be the only way forward next gen for a lot of people.
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What's that extra power going to give you that PS6 Pro won't?

Fully polygonal path traced nostril hairs on characters?
 
The PS6 isn't going to be cheaper than the PS5 Pro guys. This would mean the Pro should drop significantly in price, and then the regular PS5 as well. Their entire price pyramid would need to change.

If I were to guess the PS6 is going to be 699 as well. With the Pro and PS5 being slashed accordingly by this time.
 
Damn, unless I get a super raise, I actually may be priced out of gaming. This is looking like my last console gen if trend continues where they are going.

I guess it better margins on luxury goods then stuff the normal people can afford. Sucks for me I guess.
 
They'll need to sell a lot of it in order for 3rd parties to develop for the console, so I think it will be cheaper than the PS5Pro (which is a straight up scam)
 
The 10 year + generation is also going to be a thing, for sure. PS5 will be the target multiplatform development platform until at least 2030 for certain.

What could PS6 even bring to the table that PS5 (and certainly Pro) doesn't already, at a mainstream market segment? How many soccer moms know or care about 120hz or 8K? Most people won't even be buying the Pro at its price point. Ever. It's really a niche/specialty product, so what would a PS6 even *do* that could crack open the purses and wallets of the masses?
 
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It depends. You can vote with your wallet. If you don't like the PS5 Pro's price don't buy it. It's the best thing you can do..
 
Depends on the macro-economic conditions the world is in when the PS6 launches. Things in general are expensive now because of inflation and the weakness of the yen and euro.
 
Don't follow the logic. You'd assume they'd be aiming the ps6 at the mass market so the BoM will reflect that, also their bargaining power will be greater to lower the prices anyway due to the orders they'll be putting in.

Add to that in 3 or 4 years they'll probably be 2 gens of amd improvements in cpu and gpu, that will be available for roughly the same price as rdna2 and Zen 2 were available for when ps5 came out.

Ps5 pro is a niche device not mainstream and not expected to do mainstream numbers.
 
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Unknown? said:
That isn't it. If that was the case why hasn't Nintendo dropped pricing? They always do but not this gen. Seems more like other factors.
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I mean, all old posters on this forum surely remember arrogant Nintendo right?

They're in record sales, why drop price.
 
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