Would you pay $1,000 USD for a PS6 with backwards compatibility for all previous consoles?

Would you buy it?

  • Yeah

    Votes: 101 33.8%

  • Nah

    Votes: 198 66.2%
  • Total voters
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simpatico said:
That's what it's going to have to cost if you want an appreciable upgrade from the Pro. Unless Sony is willing to lose considerable money on every sale.
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I think that's the thing.

The cost of parts is going up, not down. To manufacture something more powerful than the Pro, which the 6 would have to be, it would therefore have to cost more than the Pro.
 
No. Consoles should be priced at their hardware capability to run that new generation of games, BC should not be the yardstick for pricing.

Gentle reminder to OP that you don't have BC for PS1/2/3 on the PS5, not because of the PS5 not being powerful enough to run conplex calculations of the likes of the Cell Processor or the PS3.

An R7 3700X coupled with a RX 6700 (non-XT) / RTX 2070 Super / RTX 4060, would brute force through anything the PS3 has thrown at it, at full speed, 4K 60 fps in a 3RD party emulator on pc like RPCS3, let alone PS2 and 1. Imagine a dedicated team building a software solution proprietary enough to run this now ancient code.

It's because Sony's software team is absolute steaming pile of dogshit.
 
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No, an upfront $1000 charge is putting consoles in the range of a PC that could just emulate all of those Playstation games, with so far better visual/performance results than Sony's efforts so far.

What I'd rather have is a PS6 priced fairly, and then have this backwards compatibility done through an external add-on or attachment (like the PS5 disc-tray).

I'd also want resolution upscaling out of the box for every game, 60fps for most games (some tie frame-rate to game logic), and the ability to add texture packs since AI tools upscale old PS1-PS2 era visuals quite nicely.
 
I'd pay $1000 for a PS6 without backwards compatibility before PS4. I'm willing to pay a huge premium to avoid dealing with PC gaming and all its issues.
 
consoul said:
If I can plug in my original controllers, I'm in.
I want to use all the OG custom controllers.
Beatmania IIDX controller, NegCon, Pop'nMusic pad, DDR mats, Shinkansen controller, the works.
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$1k for an upgraded PS2 that just does PS2 and PS1 perfectly with wired DualSense.
Without OG controller plug ports and memory cards it won't be an upgrade over the OG consoles.
I'd pay $50 for digital Castlevania (and every other great PS1 game) with DualSense feedback baked-in.
PS1 games biggest flaws are their CD jewel cases and incompatibility with analog joysticks.
Sony could put these new PS1 disks in high quality PS2 boxes with memory card slots and manuals and sell that on top of the $50 digital game for an extra $20-25.
They bake in the ability to boot directly into games via disk along with PSN functionality and they'll have a console better than the original PS1 and PS2.
 
Durin said:
No, an upfront $1000 charge is putting consoles in the range of a PC that could just emulate all of those Playstation games, with so far better visual/performance results than Sony's efforts so far.

What I'd rather have is a PS6 priced fairly, and then have this backwards compatibility done through an external add-on or attachment (like the PS5 disc-tray).

I'd also want resolution upscaling out of the box for every game, 60fps for most games (some tie frame-rate to game logic), and the ability to add texture packs since AI tools upscale old PS1-PS2 era visuals quite nicely.
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Not with PC prices continuing upwards.
 
It's gonna be $1000 without all of that as well, looking at current trajectories.
 
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I would. If it would allow me to play my physical games from ps1 and up ? Hell yeah of course I would.

But I do want the ps6 a bit more powerful. The ps5 pro is a letdown to be honest. Mainly because I had high hopes with PSSR but that was shit.

PS6 must use an advanced version of FSR4. Because anything less than FSR 4 I am out. These consoles rely on upscaling like no tomorrow. And I want a clean upscaler like DLSS 3/4 FSR 4
 
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I'd pay $1000 for a portable PS3 Pro with a propietary GPU as sophisticated as the CELL, an unified memory pool, faster storage and full backwards compatibility with PS1 and PS2.
 
Unknown? said:
Not with PC prices continuing upwards.
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PC prices are flexible based on what level of fidelity you want, and in the time of diminished returns on graphics there is ever worsening return on high-end. I helped a friend with a budget build for a bit under $1000, using the Intel B580 as the GPU with a mid-tier CPU, 32gb of RAM, 1tb SSD. The only part that took some time was the GPU's availability to get a good price, and that likely isn't going to persist forever...especially as AMD offers its own budget 9060XT in 2nd quarter.
 
Perrott said:
I'd pay $1000 for a portable PS3 Pro with a propietary GPU as sophisticated as the CELL, an unified memory pool, faster storage and full backwards compatibility with PS1 and PS2.
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Well if they develop a Portal 2, and if the patent is anything to go by, with total backwards compatibility and AI upscaling for older titles, it'd basically be a portable PS3/2/1 Pro.
 
If it's backward compatible with every PlayStation game ever released dating back to 1994? A system where I could throw in a disk of the original WipE''Out' and play it and then throw in an Amplitude disk and play it without needing to fiddle with any settings or control setups between the two?

$1000 would be a damn steal.
I'd pay that in a second.

30+ years of games playable on one system. It would be a boon to retro game outlets, too.
 
1,000 dollars only if

It's way better than the PS5 Pro in both graphics and processing powers

4K HD Bluray Player which obviously includes a disk drive.

Extra features to use it like a PC with a mouse slot.

Backwards compatiablity.
 
I wouldn't care as much about backwards compatibility as raw graphics power. If they made a super powerful console, and I didn't have a gaming PC, then yes.
 
Nydius said:
30+ years of games playable on one system. It would be a boon to retro game outlets, too.
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Yeah, I think $1,000 for a console that not only plays current gen games, but also makes 30+ years of retro gaming accessible, and provides the experience of quality upscaling on par with a decent remaster is well worth the price.
 
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For me with PC emulation, there is no reason to depend on Sony for any backwards compatibility. Plus with mods, I think Sony would be fighting an uphill battle. They'd have to try and kill all emulation on the internet for it to work.
 
I paid 1119€ for a 5080 FE so

Excited Hell Yeah GIF by UFC
 
Alright, clearly someone needs to make a poll for how much everyone expects the next gen Playstation to cost. If they're balking at $1k for a dream system scenario, they're in for a world of hurt when the real price comes out.
 
I'm team green however if it plays my ps1/2/3 games w ai for upscaling while also being a beast console then yes.

Edit; I voted no due to op non listing that it would be a beast machine.
 
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Long as it was disc based 100% just to have modern hardware to continue to play all my older titles for even longer.

Sony doesn't give a fuck about back compat so sadly it will never happen, the PS6 won't even come with a disc drive anyway.
 
Absolutely!
If there is no way forward with a PS launcher on PC with emulation built in then I have to hope the console is properly backwards compatible.
 
simpatico said:
Alright, clearly someone needs to make a poll for how much everyone expects the next gen Playstation to cost. If they're balking at $1k for a dream system scenario, they're in for a world of hurt when the real price comes out.
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That's the thing.

If the price of the PS5 Pro is expected to rise (it already has in some countries) and if the PS6 is going to be better than the PS5 Pro, then how much is the PS6 going to cost?

This is $1k for a PS6 with total backwards compatibility, when the reality will likely be $1k without that.
 
Sony already did that with the PS3 and only charded 600$ for it and ppl was up in arms calling it overpriced. Now ppl are ok with a new PS3 but at 1000$?
 
I'd pay 1000 for a ps6 no problem but backwards compatibility is NOT the sell for me. Make it a fucking beast of a console and I'll pay
 
We can already guesstimate what the PS6 will be. First, consider the Xbox price increase applying to the PS5:

Xbox X $500 -> $600 = PS5 $500 -> $600

Then take the difference of the PS5 and Switch, and apply it to the Switch 2:

$600 (PS5) / $300 (Switch) = $900 (PS6) / $450 (Switch 2)

With tax, you have a $1k console. Total backwards compatibility on top of that seems like a steal.
 
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Only if I had a subscription service the offered basically all previous titles. I don't physically own a lot of PlayStation stuff anymore
 
I legit dont get why they dont already do this…BUT Id only be into it if the emulation was as good as PC, with proper rendering options, framerate improvements etc
 
KZ2 and Warhawk are the only two games left I have fond memories of from past generations and I would much rather they get remastered/remade than be forced to play the PS3 versions through BC.
 
Listen. I'll spend $2000 on a GPU I barely use, but I'll be damned if I spend more than $500 on a console that I'll play 10 times more than PC.

Why? I don't know. I'm an idiot.
 
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