I chose PS5 price drop & PS5 Pro.
PS5 Price Drop: By Fall, PS5 will be 4 years old, and at the halfway point of its lifecycle most likely. Unlike the PS4, which never got a Super Slim, I think Sony will definitely want a Super Slim for the PS5 at some point, so they'll have to eventually work on getting a lower price on the new PS5 model, especially if the Pro is launching late this year. I'm thinking by this Fall, they'll drop the price for the non-disc PS5 to $349, and the disc model to $449.
Those will be the new official prices, but for Black Friday in particular they might do promo sales of $299 and $399, respectively, to combat the Switch 2's release and bump install base even more ahead of GTA6.
PS5 Pro: I think this is coming Fall 2024, and they'll probably do $549 for the discless version, $599 for the disc model. The reason they'll probably not do $499 for the discless model is because 1: it's a higher-end product and, 2: it makes the $449 PS5 Disc look like a bad value comparatively (only $50 more for a significant performance upgrade? Nah
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Also while GTA6 is 2025, I actually think it's a Q1 2025 release, which is why a Q4 2024 release for PS5 Pro would make some sense (otherwise 2025 would probably be a better release window). GTA6 doesn't need the holidays in order to sell big: it'll sell and be evergreen no matter the time of year they drop it. In fact releasing it earlier would probably mean more sales in the long-term.
Plus, Take-Two know how important the holidays are for most other publishers; they don't need the Christmas shopping season nearly as much as other releases and I'm sure Sony probably have some games planned for Q4 2024 that could use the breathing room. Even COD could use the breathing room; I couldn't picture it doing well releasing at the same time as GTA6. Considering MS spent $69 billion in large part for that IP, they'd probably not want the first release under their ownership getting completely overshadowed by a GTA6 backed in a marketing deal with Sony. And this is probably one of those instances where these types of companies would actually arrange release schedules around one another :/
Company wants money from you. Those that want it will get it, those that don't won't.
Its a wild concept, I know.
Why make any revision at all? Why make the PS5 smaller, thinner?
Yeah the "Pro makes no sense" talk in itself makes no sense. It's a supercharged PS5 being sold at a nice profit from Day 1 for console gamers who want more power & performance out of their PS5 games. And, I'd imagine, PSVR2 as well similar to how PS4 Pro helped improve PSVR titles.
It's not replacing the regular PS5 and the regular PS5 isn't going to "hold back" the PS5 Pro the way it can be argued the Series S has been holding back the Series X.
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