U.S.
PS5 – $649.99
PS5 Digital Edition – $599.99
PS5 Pro – $899.99
U.K.
PS5 – £569.99
PS5 Digital Edition – £519.99
PS5 Pro – £789.99
Europe
PS5 – €649.99
PS5 Digital Edition – €599.99
PS5 Pro – €899.99
Japan
PS5 – ¥97,980
PS5 Digital Edition – ¥89,980
PS5 Pro – ¥137,980
900 dollars for a console. For a 5 year old generation.
Just sad that they are confident people are still going to waste money on this and not just buy optimised games for existing computers. Gamers need a cultural revolution.
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They are arguably cheaper
No they are not. The total cost of ownership is much higher with consoles. That is even if you don’t pirate. Not to mention that the buying price for consoles is only competitive in the first few years of a generation.
they’re plug and play,
No, you wait around inserting a disk, and for a 100GB update to finish.
no reinstalling windows/Linux Most gamers never reinstall their OS.
You don’t have to fiddle with the settings,
This is a bad thing. On PC, I can decide to play it how I want. Do I want to trave in fidelity for performance? I can. Do I want to do the reverse? I can.
check fps
They don’t let you check fps on consoles because of you knew how pathetic it was, and if you ever had any experience playing on PC, you’d know how much of a rip off consoles are and switch over.
it’s poorly optimized for your specific piece of hardware
This is never the case. A wide range of hardware work with PC games. PC parts are interoperable by design. The two main GPU vendors - AMD and Intel, optimize the hell out of their drivers. If a game is optimized, it is automatically optimized for all hardware.
I have a PC and an inherited PS5, I use the PS5 more because I’m lazy and spend all day on a computer for work. When I get home the last thing I want to do is sit at a desk and touch a keyboard lol
That’s fine. And controllers work on PC as well.
you don’t have to put the pc on a desk. watch out for latency if you use a television instead of a monitor though
You can set up your PC for couch play just as easily. If you’re invested in a wireless mouse/keyboard instead of a PS5, or spent 5 minutes setting up steam big picture, you could have saved a whole lot of money.
You could also pirate your games on PC (which you should be doing). You could have saved thousands if only you weren’t brainwashed by console manufacturer propaganda
I’m aware of this. I just have a PS5 and I use the PC for work. I also didn’t buy the PS5 and wouldn’t have it it wasn’t for my brother dying and me inheriting it.
I suppose if it’s your brother’s then you wouldn’t want to sell it and get a PC instead for the sentimental value of it.
You aren’t playing AAA games with the same consistency and ease as a console even at these price points. The disk argument is silly, games just download to the console same as a PC now.
As for the performance/setting/etc, look at the reviews for every game or PC and there will be countless people suffering. Countless games aren’t even worth playing because they don’t work. Windows is trash but the only real option if you want broad compatibility. PC is better but is infinitely more annoying. The average person doesn’t want to work in IT as a side hobby.
These are cheaper than computers most of the time still, especially to play certain games.
Consoles are more expensive than PCs for equivalent performance for most of a console generation.
When a new console generation starts, they are price competitive over PCs for a year or two, but even then, they are not price competitive in terms of the total cost of ownership. Games on PC are significantly cheaper. Online services are free as opposed to a subscription on consoles. And I haven’t even touched piracy, which you can’t do on consoles.
I can’t believe woke would do this
58 hundred ninety nine US dollars
