The price of PS5 Pro could be much higher than we thought, I will explain why. Yesterday, Sony confirmed that it has decided to increase the price of the PS5 in Japan again due to the external difficulties the company is facing, a move that has raised the price of the said console to 550 dollars in the version with an optical drive.

According to the latest and reliable information, Sony will introduce the PS5 Pro at the Tokyo Game Show, which will be held at the end of September this year, which means that its launch is very close. Making PS5 more expensive makes no sense just a month since the launch of this new console If you later need to lower it again to accommodate it on the market.

Reading between the lines, we can make two things clear. Sony has raised the price of the PS5 in Japan to accommodate the economic realities the country is experiencing, and it’s just not going through the best of times. plans to maintain this price level for as long as you deem necessary.

That leads me to think so PS5 price will not go down generally with the arrival of the PS5 Pro, and in order not to be stepped on by the PS5, it will come to the market with a much higher price than originally planned.

How much can the PS5 Pro cost? May be more expensive than PS3

And that would make it the most expensive console Sony has released to date. surpassing the PS3. This console came to the market with a price of 499 dollars-euros for the version with 20GB HDD and 599 dollars-euros for the version with 60GB HDD.

The price of the PS5 Pro is said to have fluctuated around 600 dollarsthat was the number I also bet on, but it only makes sense if there is a drop in the price of the PS5, since this console costs 550 dollars-euros in several markets.

As things stand now, and with Sony not only not wanting to lower the price of the PS5 after nearly four years, but doing everything to raise both its price and its peripherals, I believe the price of the PS5 Pro could have ended between 700 and 750 dollars-euros.

Launching a new console in this price range would allow Sony to avoid having to cut the price of the PS5 and could perfectly differentiate the PS5 Pro, which it would position as premium console $200-euro more expensive than the standard model.

Sony will have one very important thing going in its favour, and that is that there will be no competition on Microsoft’s part, as we have no evidence that the Redmond giant is going to launch an Xbox Series

Is it worth paying that much for this console?

That’s a question that no one can answer for sure right now, but based on the latest leaks I’ve seen and possible PS5 Pro specs, I believe the €700 price it might be reasonable if all the rumors come truebecause we are talking about a console that:

• It would perform 45% better than the PS5 in games under rasterization.
• It would have a brand new GPU that would be 2 to 4 times better at ray tracing.
• It would have a faster CPU and memory.
• It will come with dedicated hardware to accelerate proprietary AI-based image resizing and reconstruction technology.
• It doubles the performance of the PS5 thanks to the rescaling.

That’s a lot of improvements more important than those brought by the PS4 Proso it would make more sense for it to have a higher launch price as well, the console that came out cost the same as the standard PS4 at launch because it dropped in price to fit the market.

PS5 Pro release date

Its introduction will take place at the end of September, as I told you at the beginning of the article, but we still do not have an exact release date. This console could arrive shortly after its launch, which would take us to the month of October, or that Sony will decide to wait for the Christmas campaign, which would mean the launch between November and December.

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