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sze5003

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What's the expected ETA? Q1 or Q2 next year?

Ah, one certainly can't build an $800 PC to run 4K @ 60 FPS, which even for a 4080/90 isn't an easy task. However, I'm pretty sure I could head over to pcpartspicker and put together something equivalent to the PS5 Pro for about $1,000 - $1,200? At this price point, I'm sort of like a few hundred here or there starts to become chump change.

So, that's why, for me, $80 isn't a deal breaker. I had been willing to pay up to $700 with a disk, now it's $800 with a larger SSD. I may buy it or not, I guess. Maybe, I'll just flip a coin!
Here's two, one with an AMD card and another with an Nvidia for roughly $100 more.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fHKkQP - 4070


https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Cgsjfy - Radeon 7900
 

SteveGrabowski

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Because the general consensus of everyone on forums/reddit complaining about the price is "$800 is too much for a console, you can just shift to PC gaming and get better results."

It's not like when the Pro comes out the regular console stops working and the Sony mafia comes to your house to collect payment. A lot of people saying they won't buy it but it will sell regardless. A lot of people are mad but every company is cost cutting and doing everything they can to increase profits to make up for covid era.

Now is a good time to take that $800 and add to it for anyone that does want to move to PC. Overtime you will have a high end rig.
Come on, make up for the covid era? COVID was a godsend for Sony and they made enormous profits as more people bought consoles and games with everyone's social lives shut down for a year to a year and a half thanks to the pandemic. This feels more like retribution from Sony for not buying their stupid Concord game.
 
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SteveGrabowski

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I would have guessed $600 max for the PS5 Pro, with or without a disc drive, just based on how consoles have been priced/marketed in the past.
After finding out Sony pissed away $200 million on Concord for zero sales $700 without the drive looked pretty likely IMO.
 
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sze5003

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Come on, make up for the covid era? COVID was a godsend for Sony and they made enormous profits as more people bought consoles and games with everyone's social lives shut down for a year to a year and a half thanks to the pandemic. This feels more like retribution from Sony for not buying their stupid Concord game.
Consoles are generally sold at a loss including when it was priced at $500. If they can sell 10 million now at $700+ they perhaps can make up for it or break even. I didn't even know about Concord but yeah that could also be a reason.
 

SteveGrabowski

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Consoles are generally sold at a loss including when it was priced at $500. If they can sell 10 million now at $700+ they perhaps can make up for it or break even. I didn't even know about Concord but yeah that could also be a reason.
I recall reading they were selling nearly at cost from Day 1 before any of the node shrinks that let them cut cost on chips, power supply, and cooling (the heatsink got way smaller in the second or third revision, I forget which). It's not like the PS3 gen where they took substantial losses on the hardware as a Trojan horse to get Blu-ray adoption up. And now they stripped out the drive this gen so they can either make you pay $80 for a lousy read only drive when blu-ray writing drives are cheaper or they can force you to buy everything digitally where they get a 30% cut on every game sale. Loss leader model died when we found out Microsoft was buying Activision.
 

SteveGrabowski

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Digital Foundry expects PS5 Pro's gpu to be about RX 6800 non XT level performance. So my console killer build would probably be:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor ($111.99 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI PRO B760M-A WIFI DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard ($149.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory ($47.97 @ Newegg Sellers)
Storage: Crucial P3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($56.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: ASRock Challenger OC Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card ($469.97 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $936.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-09-13 16:17 EDT-0400


Costs 16% more but has a roughly 20% faster gpu and much faster cpu (at least 30% when cpu bound). I didn't include a case since who doesn't have a PC case they can repurpose? Also put a much nicer PSU than you'll see in PS5 and upped the RAM to 32GB and dropped the SSD to 1TB since I doubt many people are playing 10+ games at once.

This build definitely has some downsides. No included controller (though not being stuck having to buy DualSense is an upside IMO, worst controller since the Atari 5200) and no physical games so you don't really own your games. And the biggest one for me is Bluetooth is trash in Windows so I game with wired controllers exclusively on Windows. But lots of upside too in the better components, better gpu, and better cpu, plus FreeSync support so you don't need to hook it to a really expensive display to get VRR support.
 
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SteveGrabowski

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Could probably get that price down a little more too by going with a Ryzen 5 5600, but I don't know the boards well enough to make a recommendation there. And I got lazy and went with a DDR4 board since I don't know the 12th gen DDR5 boards too well. Still demolishes the PS5 Pro when cpu bound though.
 

sze5003

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Ordered a blue ray disk drive from Sony yesterday and I'm surprised they shipped it same day and it's arriving today. I'll hang on to it to see if I can get a preorder of the Pro. If I am not able to, and anyone from here needs one I'll be happy to sell it to anyone here within the US.
 

jpiniero

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Ordered a blue ray disk drive from Sony yesterday and I'm surprised they shipped it same day and it's arriving today. I'll hang on to it to see if I can get a preorder of the Pro. If I am not able to, and anyone from here needs one I'll be happy to sell it to anyone here within the US.

I don't think you will have any trouble preordering.
 
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MoragaBlue

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Ordered a blue ray disk drive from Sony yesterday and I'm surprised they shipped it same day and it's arriving today. I'll hang on to it to see if I can get a preorder of the Pro. If I am not able to, and anyone from here needs one I'll be happy to sell it to anyone here within the US.

Me too. Except, I ordered it from Walmart. Should I change my mind, could always return within 30 days. As of now, I'm kind'a leaning towards the Pro, since it appears most believe its performance is most similar to a 4070.
 
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sze5003

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I don't think you will have any trouble preordering.
I'll give it the good old college try. Having been away for 3 weeks I'll be pretty busy at work on the 26th so I may not have the time to login on my phone and try to order. I will be very interested in seeing how many total preorders it will have but I suppose that metric won't be available just yet.
 

purbeast0

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Yeah I think the PS5 Pro demand will be similar to PSVR2, except you won't have to order directly from Sony this time. I don't think preorders will sell out unless stores are only getting like 3-4 of them.
 

jpiniero

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Yeah I think the PS5 Pro demand will be similar to PSVR2, except you won't have to order directly from Sony this time. I don't think preorders will sell out unless stores are only getting like 3-4 of them.

Oh I think the Pro will do a lot better than the PSVR2. The PSVR2 was stillborn at birth. There will be people out there who will overlook it's $50, $100 more expensive than it should be because they hate 30 fps that much.
 

MoragaBlue

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IMHO, I don't think this will sell too well. While I'm ok with the price, barely, what gives me a moment of pause is the likelihood of seeing vendors shave $100 off this in about 6 months. I just don't like feeling like a chump overpaying during launch.

As to 30 FPS, I don't like it and see no reason why any game should run at 30 FPS in late 2024.
 

sze5003

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Do we know what other retailers will have preorders? So far I've only read that Sony direct will have them starting the 26th.
 

SteveGrabowski

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Me too. Except, I ordered it from Walmart. Should I change my mind, could always return within 30 days. As of now, I'm kind'a leaning towards the Pro, since it appears most believe its performance is most similar to a 4070.
Digital Foundry says 3070 Ti

 

SteveGrabowski

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Oh I think the Pro will do a lot better than the PSVR2. The PSVR2 was stillborn at birth. There will be people out there who will overlook it's $50, $100 more expensive than it should be because they hate 30 fps that much.
And then they'll still be playing games at 30 fps anyways lol like Hogwarts was when shown running on PS5 Pro per Digital Foundry.
 

purbeast0

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IMHO, I don't think this will sell too well. While I'm ok with the price, barely, what gives me a moment of pause is the likelihood of seeing vendors shave $100 off this in about 6 months. I just don't like feeling like a chump overpaying during launch.

As to 30 FPS, I don't like it and see no reason why any game should run at 30 FPS in late 2024.
I think after the initial sales at launch, it's going to be super stagnate.
 
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Mahboi

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>PS finally gets a game
>It's Concord
>Still no games
Have to repost, it's hilarious.

Also exclusives are getting really hard to exist through any console ecosystem right now, and I don't see it getting much better with unification of HW.
 
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SteveGrabowski

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Seems to work for Nintendo.
Prob the only console I'll buy next gen. If PS6 isn't giving me much discount vs PC I'm probably fine waiting a couple of years for exclusives to get ported. Especially if it's a digital console next gen.
 

MoragaBlue

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I've been checking out the PS5 promo page on the PS site, and they're advertised optimized PS5 Pro games are all where I really don't wanna play. Some are ok (Demon Soul's, but it's really old), but mostly just not my cup of tea.

When's Wolverine coming out? Goes without saying, when it comes to Fairgames & the Bungie thing, I wouldn't even play if they offered me a code and paid me play it, let alone have me pay.

GTA is delayed, but it's ok. Not something I'm dying to play either. So, this thing had better run ER at high res 4K @ 60 FPS, otherwise I'm more or less wasting my $$.
 

marees

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In games where CPU performance is important, such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Flight Simulator, there are situations where 60 FPS is not even achieved due to CPU bottleneck, not GPU bottleneck.

In other words, it may be difficult to always guarantee 60 FPS in the latest open world game titles and RT games due to the characteristics of the PS5 Pro specifications.

Some calculations:

On the other hand, the PS5 Pro is about 5% behind the RX 7700 XT in FP32 performance and about 33% superior in memory bandwidth . At this level, it will be able to show at least 10% better performance than the RX 7700 XT. It can be seen as roughly between the RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT, and the GeForce RTX 4070 fits perfectly in this performance range. In other words, in terms of raw performance, the PS5 Pro's GPU performance seems to be on par with the RTX 4070.
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