PS5 Pro Announcement Tonight! Anyone Else Worried It Will Instantly Sell out Due to Bots?

Immer besser on 10/09/2024 - 13:03
Last edited 11/09/2024 - 09:11 by 1 other user

With the Sony technical announcement tonight at 1am EST from Mark Cerny is anyone else worried that it will be instantly unavailable due to bots and scalpers?

Other thing I'm worried about is that the Pro won't come with a disc drive as standard. Really hope that's not the case.

What are you guys most excited about the new Pro?

Personally hoping the extra GPU power and PSSR will improve the terrible picture quality we have been getting from games running at 720p and then upscaled with fsr2 to 4k.

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    • SteveBuscemi on 11/09/2024 - 12:28

      Lol. 1.45x the GPU power, no change in CPU, for 2x the price. Demonstrated by zooming in on trees.

  • dayyviiid on 11/09/2024 - 09:31
    +7

    AUS price just got announced…$1,199.95!! Actual insanity by Sony

    • Stoibs on 11/09/2024 - 10:02
      +1

      You know what's funnier? That's just for the digital.

      $1,360 all up for the disc drive also 🤣🤣🤣

      • snapper17 on 11/09/2024 - 10:27

        agreed its expensive but still half the price of a gaming pc so I think it will still sell.

      • kaleidoscope on 11/09/2024 - 10:36
        +1

        There are trolls on fb stating that going physical is a a lifestyle choice of old aged gamers and the cost can easily be justified. 😂

        • Stoibs on 11/09/2024 - 10:38

          It's weird because presumably these same people are shopping for these consoles at EB Games where they can see all the cheap trade-in deals at the moment, or on Amazon where they constantly list games 40~50% of their PSN digital pricing :/

          My first PS5 was actually a digital and I sold/traded up to a regular one because I could see firsthand how much I was missing out on and would be saving with discs.

          • kaleidoscope on 11/09/2024 - 11:52

            @Stoibs: Well yeah exactly why I use disc version as digital versions never go on sale at a reasonable price for my liking… Also I use ps5 as a 4k uhd movie / tv series player :)

  • DiscoJango on 11/09/2024 - 10:16

    The only reason i would want to get a ps5 pro is to play gta 6. But i recently upgraded my gaming pc to a 7800xt so im thinking that should hopefully be sufficient to play it too.

  • HappyPooPants on 11/09/2024 - 10:21
    +5

    No need to worry about scalpers at that RRP don’t worry.

  • arabora0 on 11/09/2024 - 10:47

    I held out on a PS5 because I had no money at the time. Waited until PS5 Slim because there were no games. Then I thought "whats another year? I still got PS4 games to go through so I'll wait for the Pro". Now its here. But jfc. $1360 all up. Cant decide if I should splurge, because I can afford it, or not reward Sonys insane pricing, and go for the Slim

  • burningrage on 11/09/2024 - 11:01

    Wow! Soo expensive and without Disc drive too!

  • YoursTruly on 11/09/2024 - 11:06

    I hope this ‘Ps5 Pro’ at the price they are asking crashes bad for Sony….Sony ought to be brought several notches down….

    The Ps5 feels like such a glaring disappointment in terms of hardware vs software utilisation (compared to ps2/ ps3 especially). The devs these days don’t seem to push boundaries or optimise their games well like in the prior PS generations.

    This gen’s Sony attitude to pricing/ hardware & software innovation is likely also the outcome of little to no competition they receive, plus it’s not helping that most consumers seem to have a sheep/ fomo mentality these days as well.

    I wonder what the ‘Switch’s successor’ will be priced at this point now…

  • ReaperX22 on 11/09/2024 - 11:22

    I was very keen, after updating to the PS4 Pro from ps4, was a decent bump, threw in an SSD, 4k outputs, felt great.

    But this seems very incremental. I already have a 1TB SSD extra installed, so 2TB isn't a selling point, I hardwire, so wifi 7 isnt a selling point.

    And they're relying on upscaling tech to fight against bad optimisation? Blahhhh.

    Joke of a price.. With a disc drive, MAYBE, 1000 here, sure, why not, without one!? 1200?! COME ONNNNNN SONYYYYY

  • smartazz104 on 11/09/2024 - 11:26

    Anyone Else Worried It Will Instantly Sell out Due to Bots?

    More power than a PS5 (with associated cost) but nothing than can take advantage of it and no disc drive? No one's worried.

  • mountaineer on 11/09/2024 - 11:47
    +1

    We are not in any pamdemic so supply chain hasn't been in any stress, why would it be sold out as if it was during the height of covid?

    • ReaperX22 on 11/09/2024 - 12:12
      +1

      Demand will be much lower too, those who scrambled for 1-2 years for a PS5 aren't going to drop 1.2k+ on a new model when theirs barely has a layer of dust yet lol.

  • freekay on 11/09/2024 - 12:36
    +2

    Whilst I wouldn't say no if I got this as a gift, there's no way in hell I'm dropping 1.2k for this. I don't like to wish bad things upon other people, but I do hope everyone involved in the decision to kill the disc drive and extortionate pricing, has a day filled with petty and minor inconveniences.

  • Mumbles on 11/09/2024 - 13:16

    Sony always sets launch prices and pre-order prices unfairly high to milk early adopters. I hope as many buyers using bots buy up the initial supply at its highest prices.

    I will wait until the price is justified by the hardware performance. Consoles only get cheaper over time. I just exercise patience and make substitutions for what I want to spend my dollars in the meanwhile.

    We are lucky as OzBargainers that there are so many deals for entertainment and gadgets. Eg. the money I save on an overpriced console I could put towards the rest of my entertainment system such as a new TV, surround sound A/V receiver, speakers, headphones, laptop, graphics card, smartphone, media player, smart devices, etc.

  • DontNeedThis on 11/09/2024 - 13:17

    Yes, with all the atrocities currently going on all around the world, I'm worried about not being able to upgrade my PS5 to a Pro immediately after release.

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