What pricing and marketing strategy will Sony choose?

[Opatschi]

@Ruthwik_Rao

…e the games run and look better, especially for PC players who shall be getting Nvidia cards to see and realise wait it’s cool that a console is getting the same kinda tech, might invest in that for the cheap price. Another very important thing they should market is show new optimized file sizes for some games. Show a game taking up 100 gigs on current gen HDD, then show the same game optimized for SSD and Velocity Architecture, taking up 50gb or some ridiculous shit like that. This will be to drive home the fact that 512GB SSD could be enough, unless they really want to be predatory enough to start forcing proprietary SSDs very soon, then that shall be a bummer. All in all, the next “event” needs to drive home a lot of things omitted from previous shows and I hope that is sooner than later.

I expect a digital foundry video sometimes this or next week

[Ruthwik_Rao]

@Opatschi

I expect a digital foundry video sometimes this or next week

Yeah, Aaron Greenberg in the RDX podcast comments pretty much confirmed that’s happening “when the time is right” so I figure that means they’re waiting for Sony to make a move this week or next and then dropping that embargo.

[Hindle]

@hanspampel

Of course. How could Sony possibly even win more marketshare in the UK and US over Xbox? The PS4 was perfect and the Xbox One a huge fumble in most ways. To improve on that would be super hard.

I would expect Sony to market leader position in the UK and US and possibly other Anglo-Saxon markets like CA, AU and NZ

EMEA and Asia will still be Sonyland, tho

It will be incredibly narrow and thats if Sony can stay ahead. MS will go all in for the English speaking market and I still think they understand it more then Sony

[LifeForms]

@Biggzy

I agree. I still think the PS5 will outsell Xbox but Sony’s market share will decrease. So many things went right for Sony this gen and Microsoft has already prevented some of them from repeating this coming gen such as price and power.

I think it will be 90 million PS5, 80 million xbox ss/sx.

People have to consider its 7years of series S, that console is going to be insanely low priced.

Imagine

2023: xss - $249 2024 - $199. 2026 - $149

When it reaches $199 its basically impulse buy terrority, it will be competing with google cast, fire tv, apple tv etc. Imagine how tiny the box will get when moving to 5nm + 3nm. PS5 will likely never get to these impulse buy kind of prices.

[LifeForms]

@hanspampel

Of course. How could Sony possibly even win more marketshare in the UK and US over Xbox? The PS4 was perfect and the Xbox One a huge fumble in most ways. To improve on that would be super hard.

I would expect Sony to market leader position in the UK and US and possibly other Anglo-Saxon markets like CA, AU and NZ

EMEA and Asia will still be Sonyland, tho

I think it will be very close.

Xbox one sold well in the UK + US with a weaker console, always online, no used games, tv tv tv, kinect, $100 more expensive.

Imagine what they can do with the most powerful console at the same price as the competition, the best value and cheapest console, gamepass, the best BC, 15 game studios and more.

Gamers have not made some kind of blood pact with sony or Microsoft, gamers are fickle history has shown us this, gamers react positively to great products and services. Sony are also offering the goods with there games and there hardware is good, but once people learn sonys games still require up front payment xbox looks very compelling especially when there games are in full swing.