Sony announced a significant increase in the price for PlayStation 5 in the United States of America on Wednesday. The new PlayStation 5 price, which takes effect on Thursday, August 21, will rise by $50 in the US. Sony announced the increase in a PlayStation blog post, explaining, “Like many companies worldwide, we’re facing a … Read more
PlayStation 5 was recently launched in November 2020 and Sony this year again stuck to the approach that made the previous generation PlayStation 4 successful by selling consoles.
Earlier, Sony launched the PlayStation 5 console to strong interest online but pick-ups were limited only to pre-orders due to the coronavirus pandemic that had driven a boom in gaming requests but limited real-world purchases.
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Ahead of PlayStation 5 (PS5) launch on November 12, Sony is seeing “very considerable” demand for its (PS5) console via pre-orders, its gaming chief said.
In an interview, Sony CEO Jim Ryan said, “The demand as expressed by the level of pre-order has been very considerable.”
The tech company pre-sold as many PS5 consoles in the first 12 hours in the United States (US) as in the first 12 weeks for its predecessor PlayStation 4 device.
Sony, however, went on to sell more than 100 million PS4 units.
It also aims to persuade its users to upgrade to its newest launch with enhanced graphics, sound and feedback via a new controller.
The most-awaited PlayStation 5 by Sony will launch in November this year.
According to the details, two versions of the PlayStation 5 console will be released on November 12 in Australia, North America, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan and South Korea, later in the rest of the world.
The premium PS5 will be priced at $500, while a “digital edition” designed for the trend of games being downloaded from the cloud will be priced at $400.
“With PlayStation 5, we are making a significant leap to deliver a truly new generation of transformative play experiences that will redefine expectations for what games can be,” Sony Interactive Entertainment chief Jim Ryan said.
Sony has shown off titles being readied for PS5 and provided a glimpse at the console — a dark tower with white sides that encase it like a partially open clamshell.
A “full” model PS5 has a slot for game or video disks, while the digital model does not since titles can be downloaded via the internet or played in the cloud.
Earlier, Sony had said in a statement, “We’ve begun to unveil more details behind the technical and hardware components that make PlayStation 5 such an innovative and powerful platform – the ultra-high-speed SSD, integrated custom I/O system, custom AMD GPU with ray tracing, and highly immersive 3D audio. With these capabilities, PS5™ will allow developers to maximize their creativity, building expansive worlds and new play experiences in the games they design.”
Microsoft last week announced its next-generation Xbox game console will launch on November 10, with an estimated starting price the same as that of the PS5.
The new XBox Series X were available for pre-orders from September 22.
Microsoft said it would sell a slimmed-down Xbox S game console priced at $299, also in November.
The PlayStation 4 had outsold Xbox by more than two to one, but Microsoft hoped to take the battle back to Sony.
Sony has announced to reveal more information including the price of PlayStation 5 on Wednesday, September 16, at 01:00 p.m Pacific Time. According to the details, Sony’s presentation will be live-streamed on YouTube and Twitech and will be of forty minutes. Apart from sharing PlayStation 5’s price and release date, Sony will also talk about … Read more
