The release date and the pricing strategy found on Amazon looks quite credible, and not just a basic placeholder listing.
Jeuxvideo-Live, a French website, posted how the French Amazon has listed the PlayStation 5. We’re not going to link it, as this listing has been reverted to its original form. However, a screencap was saved.
The image says the next-gen Sony console could launch on November 20. (This date looks credible: the rumour that mentioned it has also talked about Gran Turismo 7… which has been announced since.) The pricing for the PlayStation 5 Standard Edition could be 500 euros (or 500 USD in the US), and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (the one without a Blu-ray drive) would cost a hundred less. Keep in mind that it isn’t officially confirmed by Sony yet – they will likely wait with the price and release date reveal until August (another PlayStation 5 stream has been rumoured to happen then)…
„Conventional wisdom and history show that our business is one of the more recession-proof businesses. But I think this will sharpen our need to ensure that we focus on getting the value equation right. And I emphasise value as opposed to price. We must be more attentive than ever before to ensure that the overall value proposition in terms of the console and the games – the range of games, the quality of games, the quantity of games – makes this something that our community aspires towards,” Jim Ryan, the CEO and president of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), told the BBC.
He also briefly touched upon the design of the PlayStation 5: „The PlayStation sits in the living area of most homes, and we kind of felt it would be nice to provide a design that would grace most living areas. That’s what we’ve tried to do. And, you know, we think we’ve been successful in that.” (He probably meant the American homes. Not Eastern European ones.)
But why is the PlayStation 5 so big? (It indeed is: we recently posted a comparison between the PS5 and the other recent consoles by Sony and Microsoft…) Matt MacLaurin, vice president of UX Design at PlayStation, who we quoted the other days as well, got a question on LinkedIn: „I’m impressed by this design – however, in today’s times, people seek portability and convenience. The performance in the PlayStation 4 was amazing. Why make the new product bigger and bulkier?” Here’s MacLaurin’s response: „Thermals. This gen[eration of consoles] is little supercomputers. While the 7nm process delivers amazing heat performance for power, the power is very extreme. This tech is still so fresh it throws a lot of heat so we need room to dissipate.”
Eric Lempel, the head of global marketing of PlayStation, praised the PlayStation 5’s game lune-up on the PlayStation Blog‘s newest podcast: „This, by far, is the biggest lineup we have ever had in the history of PlayStation. We’re so fortunate that we have so many beloved titles and characters that people have grown up with over the years. I’m amazed at how well our studios are delivering against the launch timeframe. Today you saw really big, well-established franchises that people have known for years, [such as] Gran Turismo, Ratchet and Clank. Then you’re seeing somewhat new franchises making an appearance on PlayStation 5, like with our big closer [Horizon Forbidden West]. Then we have one of my favourites, which is Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Miles has become such a beloved character, people are obsessed with him. And now you’re going to get to play him on PlayStation 5.”
The PlayStation 5 will launch this Holiday season (possibly on November 20, for 500/400 dollars?).
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