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From someone who is all-in on Sony stuff (PS4 & PS4 Pro, PSVR1 & 2), this is tone deaf. Too much money for 5 Pro with not enough to show for it. Let alone disc drive and stand are extra too. Bizarre.
Disc drive I can understand, with the push for digital, but vertical stand? That's just cheap.
It feels like a weird time to launch it too. 60million are still on PS4. This is just going to fragment things even more for gamers and developers alike.
If I was buying a PS5 today? I'd buy the more powerful one.
But will I be upgrading from my 2020 PS5? Not unless it breaks.
Agreed. I'm a lifetime PS fan going all the way back to nearly 30 years but Sony has completely turned me off to the idea of ever buying another console from them again. My PS5 (disc version) is probably my biggest financial regret of the last two years
Why? I've been rather pleased with my PS5 disc version. I've never actually used the disc, but it's there if I need to.
I've used the disc drive exactly twice for games in the last four years, but I'm happy it was there.
The second time, in fact, was just this last week because I was able to get Star Wars: Outlaws on disc for half off (some weird QVC deal a couple weeks ago).
I got the disc version because I like options, and also because I own the PS4 Spiderman game on disc. But I haven't played that game in years, and I never actually go to the game store, or any department stores that sell games. Still, I like options.
It also is nice for that random night where you have a physical DVD to watch.
My friends wanted to do a Saw movie marathon, and one of them had all the discs. The PS5 was the only device I had that could play them.
Yeah that could be useful. We have a ridiculously expensive 4k DVD player that we bought several years ago. Back then our amp didn't pass through HDR video, and if we ran the video through the TV first and then out to the amp from the TV for the audio, then the audio would get compressed. So we bought a DVD player with 2 HDMI outs. We ran one to the TV for HDR, and another to the amp for uncompressed pure audio. Since then we've replaced the amp with something more modern that will pass through HDR, but we still use the DVD player since its pretty high-end.
Technology sure is great, isn't it?
The march of progress, and a limited budget, results in some pretty creative setups, that's for sure.
The games look great, but not noticably greater than what the PS5 already does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, just get a PS5 slim? should be fine if you don't want the disc, or buy used PS5. My launch PS5 is still doing really well. But I stopped playing any multiplayer game on it and stopped PS Plus.
Who wouldn’t want to pay nearly 1k EUR (incl. stand+disc drive) to play 6 year old PS4 games with slightly better performance?
I mean, I have a ps5 since a very long time. But I just haven't seen any good exclusive yet.
I was really happy with Ratchet and Clank, Spider-Man 2, and Final Fantasy XVI. Although I think all are on PC now.
I'm a big fan of Naughty dogs's games and so far, they haven't annonced anything. So far I think my most played game might be days gone :D
Sony's been tone deaf since at least the 2011 hack, possibly since the price and architecture of the PS3.
Being "all-in" on Playstation at this point is like defending an abuser.