PS5 Potential Price Is Floating In New Marketing Survey

While neither Sony nor Microsoft have announced pricing for the PS5 or Xbox Series X yet, even though in any other year with E3, that would have already happened, they may not even know what they are.

This is evidenced by the fact that Sony (although probably also Microsoft) is still doing market research on what the price should be. And it can give us an idea of ​​what the price may be in the end.

This comes from redditor u / youessbee (sent by reader JellyBelly), who is a frequent participant in surveys like this one to get extra money. Nielsen’s survey asks about two potential “randomly generated” prices for the PS5, £ 349 for the disc drive and the digital-only edition at £ 259.

So the conversion from pound to US dollar would be:

£ 349 = $ 435

£ 259 = $ 323

So yes, that is absurdly cheap, although the pollster says that when they see the prices in this type of survey, the end product generally ends up being 20% ​​more expensive. So that would leave us with

PS5 disc drive: $ 522

PS5 digital only: $ 387

That sounds more “reasonable” and yet reaching below $ 400, even for the digital version, seems pretty low, and I wouldn’t expect that to happen. Since this is a marketing survey, you are probably surveying all the possible price range just so they can have data like “95% of survey participants say they would be ‘very interested’ in a PS5 at $ 387,” even if that doesn’t end up being financially possible.

I think what interests me most is the large Price gap between the PS4 disc drive and the digital-only PS4. A gap that almost seems too wide for me to be realistic. While you’d expect at least a $ 50 disparity between the two, the gap here is $ 135. Again, that sounds high, but could the gap arguably be $ 100? If so, that would be a kind of game changer.

We don’t know if Microsoft will have a diskless version of the X Series. If they do, Xbox Lockhart, a lower-spec secondary console, likely lacks a disk drive to be even cheaper, in addition to its other power. sacrifices like no game in 4K. But if Sony could Getting the digital-only PS5 to drop to $ 400 or so would be a big problem.

Again, this is all just market research, but take a look at Sony’s thought process window here at least.

So what is the price? you would you pay for each type of console?

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