Build a PC

Install Linux

Fuck corporate bullshit.

Yeah why would anyone pay 700 bucks for a highly restricted device, that can't even play games online without an additional subscription. Just get a Steam Deck, which costs less, is portable, doesn't require subscriptions, and basically works like a full PC.

A quick look on eBay suggests the only people buying them seen are scalpers.

Hope they all get fucked on this one.

• Negligible performance/visual increases.
• Expensive
• PS5 still has NO GAMES

If you buy this thing, congratulations! You are an idiot!

Nobody wants to pay $310 ($80 for a disc drive, $30 for a stand) more for a machine that looks better if you pause the game and squint hard.

Here's a good example:

Can't see it? The PS5 Pro has added reflections on Venom's back and right shoulder. The texture on the door of the Jeep is marginally improved.

I am just going to wait until the prices go down in the fall and there is still plenty left and then buy a PC instead.

$700 for a console that's barely even better and in some ways is worse. What a deal!

Why buy a console when for roughly the same price you could buy a PC that does everything the console does and more? Yeah $700 is an insane price for what is effectively a toy.

The PS5 in general has just felt like a nebulous console. I don’t know if it’s just me not being as connected to console gaming anymore or what, but there’s no PS5 games that are “must play” or anything that I’ve seen/read/heard hype about that has made me really interested. Partly there was the Covid years where it was apparently facing shortages and during that I just switched my mind off to the idea that I’d ever buy one. It’s been out for years now though, but nothing about it makes me care to move on from our PS4 that’s still chugging along.

I would have paid $700 for the Pro if it came with everything the 30th anniversary edition had, and maybe a little more if it also included the Portal.

Unfortunately, Sony can't stop tripping over their own incompetence and limited the units to 12,300 for a reason that can be simplified to be: "money." So it sold out in less than a minute to scalper's bots and can now be found on eBay for five times the price.

A 700 dollar console with no games.

It’s not the price point. Most of the people who’d be in the market for one wouldn’t buy it because it doesn’t take discs. When I bought my PS5, I specifically bought the disc version. So I’m not going to ‘upgrade’ to a machine that doesn’t have one and only really offers ‘improved performance’ as its main selling point. It just doesn’t make sense.

If you’re new to the platform and are used to buying only digital, it might be more palatable. But as someone who’s been with Sony since the very first PlayStation: I’m gonna pass.

This happened with the ps3, the chief at playstation at the time said we wouldnt be able to find them at retail. My friends and I made some fun snapping pics of them sitting on shelves.

We were way into the game news scene at the time.

This makes no sense. Why would a company want their product to be sold out? The goal is to balance supply and demand. So they SHOULDN'T sell out. It's not a limited edition product or anything. This post is sensationalized as fuck.

Who cares

The price alone isn't the problem.

If the launch came paired with great new games it would be a whole different story, like as if it would be a new generation console like a PS6 with new exclusive games I doubt that the price would even be an issue. People would still complain, but they'll get over it.

From what I've seen it's practically only PS5 'Pro Enhanced' games, which are mostly games that have been around many years already. Plus it doesn't have a disc drive so it's more expensive if you want disc support too.

I still got an original PS5 (with disc drive), I mostly only played PS exclusive games and a few games that I prefer on console, it's perfectly capable of doing 4k and/or high resolution graphics and framerates depending on the game. I don't see a reason to upgrade to the Pro at all. And I think new players are more likely to just go for the PS5 Slim instead.