PS5: the price assumptions

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The advantages of Sony, or the reasons for a high price A delicate situation: the need for a low price The most credible hypothesis The cost to the public of PlayStation 5 has been one of the main topics of discussion on the next gen Sony, considered a basic topic on which to start discussions regarding the new consoles in general. There is a sort of relativism that concerns the world of consoles, when it comes to this aspect: we are used to seeing the prices of various electronic devices such as smartphones go up, the public has practically adapted to buying new ones at an increasingly close frequency. objects at not exactly insignificant costs, but as far as consoles are concerned, there is a sort of psychological threshold that obviously cannot be overcome. This is not so much about the enthusiast, who might even agree to pay more to really have "end of the world" machines, but it is clear that the mass audience is very careful to evaluate the expense when it comes to video games and therefore a positioning erroneous on the market can decree the success or the ruin of a console, and this is perhaps one of the reasons why that number is always at the center of discussions.





Since the first rumors about the next gen, the idea of ​​a console with a higher cost than we had seen previously has hovered in the air, making us fear a higher expense than expected. Microsoft on the one hand has always talked about a "premium" experience at an adequate price for that definition for Xbox Series X, while Jim Ryan, on the part of Sony, has set the stage by claiming that the price of PS5 would have been "adequate" for the value. offered, specifying that this does not necessarily mean "lower", which has raised a lot of suspicion about a console capable of breaking through the € 500 barrier at launch.