By This morning’s unveiling of the PlayStation 5 Pro has led to a lot of reaction online, and it’s all about the price.
The new console for enthusiasts is releasing in the U.S. at an eye-watering $699 and that’s without the disc drive. Do you want that? Add another $70 to the total. A vertical stand? $30 more.
Prices are even worse in other countries with the $699 console on its own costing the U.S. dollar equivalent of $772 in much of Europe, $799 in Australia, and $914 in the UK.
In the wake of the news, a list has been circulating of the inflation-adjusted prices for mainline PlayStation consoles since launch. They are as follows:
PS1: $611 (1995)
PS2: $546 (2000)
PS3: $778 (2006)
PS4: $538 (2013)
PS4 Pro: $522 (2016)
PS5: $606 (2020)
PS5 Pro: $699 (2024)
The PS3 remains the most expensive, but that had a disc drive and with one added to the PS5 Pro they’re almost on par with a vertical stand pushing the new console over the top.
Compare that to the $399 & $499 price point of the base PS5 at launch five years ago and people are understandably focusing on that as opposed to the other content in the nine-minute presentation. The video on YouTube has scored around three times as many dislikes as likes at present.
That said, some other interesting tidbits came up in the clip – most notably that 75% of players opt for performance mode on PS5 over fidelity mode. The full nine-minute presentation is available below.
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