The PlayStation 5 Pro will offer 45% faster rendering than the standard PS5, while costing 40% more without a disc drive.
Sony Group Corp. priced a faster version of the PlayStation 5 well above its rival Xbox at $699 , suggesting the entertainment giant sees a loyal audience willing to pay a premium for top performance.Between them, Sony and Microsoft are moving into rarefied air for consoles, with the new Xbox Series X costing $599 and the upgraded PS5 Pro asking $200 more than the original.
If the same 56% premium over the US price of the regular console were applied to the Pro model, it could cost R19,570. “This is about Sony skimming the absolute top end of the market, targeting hardcore PlayStation users only,” industry analyst Serkan Toto said. The new, high-end console will allow PlayStation 5 games to be played at higher resolutions and faster frame-rates without the need to toggle between different modes, Mark Cerny, lead architect of the console, said in a“The pricing seems extremely challenging, since there has never been a game console whose successor model was substantially more expensive than the original,” Citi analyst Kota Ezawa wrote.
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