• Pricing: $699.99 / £699.99 / €799.99 / ¥119,980
  • Moderate upgrades
  • No disc drive
  • Stand not included i-cant
  • makotech222 [he/him]
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    428 months ago

    Seriously just get a PC lol. Roughly same price, no internet subscription fee, backwards compatible with every game ever made.

  • hypercracker [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Seen a lot of gamers malding as they come to terms with video games being a mature art form that no longer automatically revolutionizes itself every year

  • dannoffs [he/him]
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    38 months ago

    i-think-that

    I like my PS5. Having my computer I do work on and where I play games being different places is good for my mental health.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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    88 months ago

    Yeah, fuck this generation of games. I just want GTA 6 but I can’t justify paying that much for a PS5 just to play that game sometimes. I can’t financially justify or have space for a gaming rig PC just for GTA 6 either, but I would definitely prefer the PC.

    PS2 generation was the best leap forward. I blame Gen Z wokeness.

  • Guamer [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    To clarify, you can add a disc drive like you can with the current Digital Edition…for an extra $80.

    So if you want this, a disc drive and a stand ($30), plus sales tax, that brings the whole package to about $870-$880. Well over $300 more than the vanilla Disc Edition at launch in 2020.

    Edit: FORGOT, if you get a disc drive and don’t want your console to look like shit, you’ll also have to get at least one modified side plate for that side, bringing all this even closer to the $900 mark.

  • peppersky [he/him, any]
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    138 months ago

    This is a product for people looking for ways to frivolously spend their money and that have fully bought into the playstation lifestyle-brand/eco-system, which is certainly a group of people that exists. It’s also a marketing tool, where every time they present some multiplatform game they can now have a little thing that says “best on ps5 pro” on the screen.

  • RION [she/her]
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    98 months ago

    Ain’t even any giant Enemy crabs or nothing. Gaming just isn’t what it used to be

  • TheSpectreOfGay [he/him, she/her]
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    218 months ago

    lmao, there’s been nothing worth playing on console in a while

    i can’t sit at a desk so i don’t have a computer (i use a laptop instead), but i’ve been using my steam deck everyday and it’s very cool and comfy and can run things pretty well

    • @[email protected]
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      98 months ago

      Pretty sure Sony’s time exclusivity is well over, so it isn’t that. I have a bad feeling we’re going to see an Epic exclusive coming next for the PC release.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        28 months ago

        The first one was EGS exclusive for like a year, so this one probably will, too. It’s not like EGS is any worse than Valve, so I don’t see the big deal.

        • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          18 months ago

          I don’t need another platform. Another account, another loader. You want me to buy your game - put it on Steam at the same time. Theres no reason to gate the game and slow drip your sales as more people lose interest and the hype dies off.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    228 months ago

    The old assumption that consoles are cheaper is getting less and less tenable because the corpos need line to go up.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      138 months ago

      They seem to go back and forth on whether they’re loss leaders subsidized by more expensive games and captive paid online services or mediocre hardware sold at a premium to their captive audience. Last gen was AFAIK the loss leader phase (and the one before that was outdated, dogshit hardware sold at a premium from the start), so now we’re on to the squeezing their audience for as much as they can phase, and in another 5 years they’ll do another loss leader console, and so on.