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[Lunatic_Gamer]

The sales target includes units from the new PlayStation 5 Pro, which was launched Thursday. In the U.S., the enhanced console carries a price tag of $699.99. While Totoki acknowledged that he has received many comments about this high price, he also showed no signs of changing it.

"It is a high-end product targeted at core customers, so we haven't been eyeing a large sales plan to begin with," the president said. "I'm under the impression that the product is performing slightly stronger than the pre-orders of the PS4 Pro during the same period, so I don't think it is adversely affecting the product's sales plan."

 

[Skifi28]

 

[Little Chicken]

Slightly is corporate speak for barely anything.

 

[vivftp]

Go PS5 Pro, Go!

A marvelous console and I think it's gonna surpass the PS4 Pro lifetime sales

 

[Punished Miku]

While Totoki acknowledged that he has received many comments about this high price, he also showed no signs of changing it.

He's basically calling you guys cucks.

 

[Astray]

Reminder that a lot of people predicted this won't sell at all.

The goalposts keep moving lol.

 

[Imtjnotu]

I thought because pre orders were still open it spelled bad news?

 

[tusharngf]

 

[Bernoulli]

I thought because pre orders were still open it spelled bad news?

It will be the same for the Switch 2, there is no chips shortage anymore

 

[Venom Snake]

He's basically calling you guys cucks.

Well, he could have just offered us a new controller skin.

 

[Kataploom]

Resellers, I wouldn't count on pre-orders for measuring players expectations over a console

 

[AmuroChan]

They could've sold more if they had just manufactured more of the 30th anniversary edition. So many people wanted one but couldn't because only 12K of them were made.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

1) No one was attempting to scalp PS4 Pro.
2) There are approximately double the PSN users now compared to 2016, let alone how many people are in the market, period.

So, yeah, obviously pre-orders are going to be higher than PS4 Pro.

 

[ZehDon]

Much like PSVR2, I imagine the PS5 Pro sales would be front loaded by the folks who tried the prior version and are happy to take up the new hardware. There are a lot of happy PS4 Pro fans, after all. However, also like the PSVR2, it'll be how many people continue to buy in that ultimately determines its success. Of course, I imagine Sony's sales expectation would be fairly low for the PS5 Pro given it's price and current state of consumer spending.

 

[Kerotan]

Slightly is corporate speak for barely anything.

Considering how much more expensive it is, doing barely better is quite impressive.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Much like PSVR2, I imagine the PS5 Pro sales would be front loaded by the folks who tried the prior version and are happy to take up the new hardware. There are a lot of happy PS4 Pro fans, after all. However, also like the PSVR2, it'll be how many people continue to buy in that ultimately determines its success. Of course, I imagine Sony's sales expectation would be fairly low for the PS5 Pro given it's price and current state of consumer spending.

PS5 Pro really can’t fail by definition. It’s a higher margin product and serves multiple purposes. The tech will go on to be expanded on PS6 and all the users that sat out on the Pro will eventually benefit from BC

Even low sales still easily justify the product

 

[Insanemaelstrom]

Good but preorders are never the complete picture. Ps5 pro, will obviously benefit ps going ahead for the reasons James Sawyer Ford said but good preorders is just a start. It is still a wait and see on whether ps5 pro will continue its momentum

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

I'm not surprised to see it's doing well. It's doing a lot more than PS4 Pro did back in the day and is an overall more compelling product. Even if it's doing slightly better or on par it's a huge achievement considering how much more expensive a PS5 Pro is than the PS4 Pro was. This is all pure profit for Sony since they have much higher profit margins on the PS5 Pro, it's a win-win for them.

Long term I expect the PS5 Pro to do well and sell on par or higher than the PS4 Pro did. It's a nice product and I'm already seeing the benefits of mine. i expect Sony to move quite a fair amount of PS5 Pros when GTA6 launches especially since it will be the best place to play it till the game arrives on PC whenever that is.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I remember buying a ps4 pro, physically it looked like a ps4, you could see slight improvements, it had the bigger HD thing etc. most of the time I forgot it was a “Pro”.

 

[Starhowl]

I bet he’s lying..

 

[ByWatterson]

Hell yeah.

It's an impressive machine.

 

[yurinka]

Sony keeps breaking records and improving pretty much all metrics, but meanwhile the doomers still say that PS5 is dead

Much like PSVR2, I imagine the PS5 Pro sales would be front loaded by the folks who tried the prior version and are happy to take up the new hardware. There are a lot of happy PS4 Pro fans, after all. However, also like the PSVR2, it'll be how many people continue to buy in that ultimately determines its success. Of course, I imagine Sony's sales expectation would be fairly low for the PS5 Pro given it's price and current state of consumer spending.

Before release Sony mentioned that their goal with PSVR2 was to sell somewhere above than PSVR1.

The only proper sales data we have is Sony saying that during its launch windows months outsold launch aligned the PSVR1, and month laters their marketing head said during the Holidays season that they were happy with its performance.

Other than that we don't have specific worldwide sales reports from Sony, so we don't know if it's frontloaded or not at all. But we see that they keep breaking records with their accesories revenue, and we also see that PSVR2 is getting way more games faster than PSVR1. As of now in a year and a half PSVR2 has over 330 games released or announced, while PSVR1 got over 530 games in 8 years.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Slightly is corporate speak for barely anything.

He's basically calling you guys cucks.

 

[Nankatsu]

Imagine if this thing had a disk drive.

 

[Kvally]

Imagine if this thing had a disk drive.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

"I'm under the impression that the product is performing slightly stronger than the pre-orders of the PS4 Pro during the same period, so I don't think it is adversely affecting the product's sales plan."

It sounds like he doesnt even know how well its doing, but got told by someone it is so he's just going with it.

 

[yogaflame]

Japanese are pretty honest when it comes to business reports. Just look at Square, Capcom, etc. They don't sugar coat or beat around the bush , even if its a bad news they will report it, a nd even if its a good news they are still not satisfied.

 

[Generic]

The sales target includes units from the new PlayStation 5 Pro, which was launched Thursday. In the U.S., the enhanced console carries a price tag of $699.99. While Totoki acknowledged that he has received many comments about this high price, he also showed no signs of changing it.

Welp, we won't go back from this "premium model" thing anymore.

 

[diffusionx]

I remember buying a ps4 pro, physically it looked like a ps4, you could see slight improvements, it had the bigger HD thing etc. most of the time I forgot it was a “Pro”.

PS4 Pro had an extra layer