Why Sony, why?

[wyo]

No way I'm putting any of these hideous PS5s in my living room. Hard to believe kernow would tolerate such goobery.

 

[prof]

No way I'm putting any of these hideous PS5s in my living room. Hard to believe kernow would tolerate such goobery.

He needed it to accessorize his transformers collection. Otherwise the entire feng shui of the room would've been off.

 

[Ralfakick]

$700? I’ll just get 350 hash browns instead.

Not steak egg and cheese bagels?

 

[Ralfakick]

No way I'm putting any of these hideous PS5s in my living room. Hard to believe kernow would tolerate such goobery.

I have what I guess is the original model now. It’s obnoxiously big and such a weird design, it is aesthetically awful, I hate the plastic isn’t flush with the system for one. I just want to rip the white part off

 

[fake]

I skipped the PS4 so when I decided I wanted to buy it made sense (at the time) to just get the PS5 and cover both generations.
In hindsight I could have just bought a PS4 and only be missing Stellar Blade & Astro Bot.

This is the boat I was in. I got a PS5 in October 2023 and do not regret not waiting. That said, every game I’ve played is either an updated PS4 game or a PS4 game.

 

[deviljin102]

When I heard rumors about this, I was debating on getting this on launch. Then I saw the presentation this morning, and I don't need this, lol. Getting the base system which is pushed as digital for $699, the disc add-on for $79.99 which might increase in price as Sony has risen the prices of all of their controller in the past 48 hours, that makes it a hell hard sell for over $800 for their supposed 45% performance gain that I can a better value getting a 4080. I will hold on to my vanilla PS5 for longer. I know GameStop is rumored to do an extra credit promo for the pro as well.

 

[DevilRedeemed]

I swear the other night my dust covered PS5 whispered "I'm sorry"
No, not good enough

 

[kernow]

Still don't understand buying either a PS5 or Xbox Series X. Not enough exclusives, a vast majority of the games are either remakes or on PC or Switch.

Not everyone has or wants a gaming pc. Fuck that I've not owned a desktop in over 20yrs

 

[kernow]

The weirdest thing of all is Sony and Microsoft buying game studios and letting them continue making games for each other's platforms.

Armchair analyst is too dumb to comprehend a bigger audience means more money.

 

[kernow]

When I heard rumors about this, I was debating on getting this on launch. Then I saw the presentation this morning, and I don't need this, lol. Getting the base system which is pushed as digital for $699, the disc add-on for $79.99 which might increase in price as Sony has risen the prices of all of their controller in the past 48 hours, that makes it a hell hard sell for over $800 for their supposed 45% performance gain that I can a better value getting a 4080. I will hold on to my vanilla PS5 for longer. I know GameStop is rumored to do an extra credit promo for the pro as well.

Last time I checked you can't game on a 4080 unless it's plugged into something.

 

[kernow]

I'll get one years from now when they're cheap-ish and hackable. $700 is pretty silly for a single-purpose device without many games.

It's got thousands of games, what are you on about

 

[famicommander]

Armchair analyst is too dumb to comprehend a bigger audience means more money.

At that point why bother making a console to begin with though? Just go third party.

 

[HellioN]

It's got thousands of games, what are you on about

Most folks who say that are talking about exclusives.
By that thought train Xbox series has no games either.
Outside of Nintendo nobody really does that anymore.

 

[Moob Butter]

At that point why bother making a console to begin with though? Just go third party.

While there will be a new Xbox after this current gen (already confirmed), it does feel like Microsoft themselves realised they’ve lost the war and will probably be the niche or 2nd console option.

I’m of the opinion that buying Bethesda and Activision Blizzard was to make them exclusive developers for Microsoft but then their console sales tanked and didn’t grow after these acquisitions like Microsoft wanted or expected, so they basically have no choice but to release games multi platform to secure more revenue. There was also a lot of legal challenge about how purchasing Activision Blizzard would restrict COD to Xbox and Sony weren’t happy about that, to which Microsoft came out and said “yeah of course we’re NOT buying them to make them an exclusive developer for us, come now- when has Microsoft ever abused their market position?”

There’s my armchair take on it anyway.

 

[100proof]

It's got thousands of games, what are you on about

99.9% of which are available on other platforms. C'mon man... this isn't 1985. These things don't exist in a vaccuum.

 

[GutsDozer]

Who are they even marketing this to?

 

[ballzdeepx]

700 before taxes , no games shown worth the investment, no disc drive (sold separately and now all bought up by scalpers) and no stand
Maybe they are just trying to see how far they can push the sheep

 

[Moob Butter]

Pretty much guarantees the PS6 won’t have the option of a disk drive at all.

I can live with that, who can be fucked rummaging for discs in 2024.

 

[Taiso]

This is the boat I was in. I got a PS5 in October 2023 and do not regret not waiting. That said, every game I’ve played is either an updated PS4 game or a PS4 game.

Tonight when I get home I'm going to take stock of my PS5 game library and find out which ones aren't also on PS4. Pray for me.

 

[Neo Alec]

The amount of belly aching for this console generation (not just on n-g.com) makes me think gamers just hate gaming now.

 

[Taiso]

The amount of belly aching for this console generation (not just on n-g.com) makes me think gamers just hate gaming now.

I think it's more that we are weary of industry shenanigans, and we are awkward and clumsy about expressing that.

 

[kernow]

No way I'm putting any of these hideous PS5s in my living room. Hard to believe kernow would tolerate such goobery.

it's black, I can barely see it on the rack.
Also, wii-u owner and player? I mean come on, be quiet

 

[kernow]

Pretty much guarantees the PS6 won’t have the option of a disk drive at all.

I can live with that, who can be fucked rummaging for discs in 2024.

I haven't rummaged for discs since about 2018 but ok

 

[Neo Alec]

I think it's more that we are weary of industry shenanigans, and we are awkward and clumsy about expressing that.

"Shenanigans" kind of makes it sound like some kind of conspiracy, but corporate decisions are usually easy to understand if you just follow the money. The rising cost of components, inflation and the corporate mandate for Sony to make money on the PlayStation division dictates this price. The $700 price tag is no surprise. I suppose the "shenanigans" could be that they're releasing this console at all when no one really seemed to ask for it. Still, I don't get people getting so offended on Twitter about it, since no one is making anyone buy it. Until there's a PS6, there's no looming mandate to upgrade if you want to keep up with new console games.

You'd think of all places, the Neo Geo forums would be open to the idea of a premium console offering, but everyone here is so old and curmudgeonly at this point.

 

[Taiso]

When I say 'shenanigans', I'm just talking about corpos being corpos. Don't read too much intot it.

And even if they're easy to understand, it doesn't make them any less annoying to us oldheads. Which is odd, considering we should expect this sort of thing from corpos by now. We never learn.