If the PS5 Pro will cost 799.99 euros without an optical drive and without a support base, What will the PS6 price be? I think that’s one of the most important and interesting questions to ask after the introduction of that intergenerational refresh that Sony just unveiled yesterday, and you’re not going to like the answer.

Let’s go back a few years to get some context. When Sony launched the PS4, the console arrived in the Spanish market with a price tag of €399.99, a much more reasonable number than the €599 it was asking for the PS3 at the time. There was a price drop of 200 euros, but With the PS5, the price rose to 499.99 euros, and then increased again to 549.99 euros.

Much of the sector was hoping that Sony would reconsider and use common sense when pricing the PS5 Pro, but it’s clear that hasn’t been the case in the end. This console will be priced at 919.98 euros with an optical drive, which means It will be 519.99 euros more expensive than the PS4 Pro.

The price difference is so brutal that, as I told you a few hours ago, there was widespread rejection towards this new Sony console. Even analysts do not agree with this move by the Japanese company and believe that the sales of this new console could end up being lower than the PS4 Pro.

The price of the PS6 Pro could be similar to that of the PS5 Pro

PS5 Pro performance improvement compared to PS5 at the GPU level.

Or a bit higher, that’s what we can clearly tell from the strategy that Sony is following with its latest generations of consoles. The company already He showed that he was not afraid launch an overpriced console with no essential accessories and its victory in this generation will allow it to play with a clear advantage in the next, which it will use to maximize the revenue obtained per console sold.

PS6 development and production costs will be higher than PS5 Pro, and that will affect the selling price, we can be clear about that. The reason is simple, because it is a new generation console that will use completely new components and architectures. On the other hand, the PS5 Pro reuses the Zen 2 architecture and repeats the GDDR6 memories. Its GPU uses a new architecture and is basically the only really important innovation that this console brings.

About a month ago, I shared with you a guess with the possible specifications of the PS6. In that article I said that:

• This console will use architecture-based CPUs Zen 5 or Zen 6, a big leap from Zen 2, which is the architecture used by the PS5 and PS5 Pro.
• It will have a new generation of GPU that it could be based on UDNAarchitecture that will replace RDNA.
• will drive GDDR7 memorywhich will offer much higher bandwidth compared to GDDR6 memory.

Only these three changes already represent significant increase in production costsand forces us to design a new internal design and adopt new power and cooling systems. Sony could absorb all or part of these production costs to boost sales of the PS6 upon its debut, or it could launch the console at a high price to avoid possible losses per console sold.

A great win that Sony achieved with the PS5 over the Xbox Series for the best time. the “lack of competition”in quotes because the Xbox Series X was an unfair failure, in the end it’s not good for anyone and we’ll see it again in the next generation of consoles.

I think it’s very likely that the PS6 will eventually hit the market with a price between $600 and $700 in the optical drive version, which should be in Spain between 700 and 800 euros at currency conversion and including taxes.

Microsoft would have a great opportunity

And he could take advantage of it in the same way as he did at the time with the Xbox 360, the Redmond giant’s best-selling and most successful console. It arrived on the Spanish market with a price 399 euros, while the PS3 was launched at €599. That huge price difference worked in favor of the Xbox 360, which was also more powerful and had a more advanced GPU because it used unified shaders, while the PS3 kept the traditional split between pixel and vertex shading.

Xbox Next priced similar to Xbox Series X at launch (€499.99) can provide Microsoft with the necessary support in the next generation of consoles and would leave the PS6 in a position that is hard to justify if said console ends up on the market with a price of €699.99 or €799.99.

I know that there is still a long way to go before the launch of both consoles. Microsoft could launch Xbox Next between 2027 and 2028, while Sony won’t launch the PS6 until 2028. Anything could happen, but Sony’s precedents and strategy are so clear that this estimate of a possible PS6 price makes a lot of sense. The results obtained by the PS5 Pro could also influence there is no doubt about it in its strategy with this new console.

We will have to get used to increasingly expensive consoles, which is a reality It could end up greatly reducing one of its big advantages over the PCthe price-to-performance ratio they usually offer at the time of their launch compared to the cost of the hardware necessary to build a computer with similar or equivalent performance.

Would you buy a PS6 priced at €799.99? What price do you think the next generation of consoles should be? I leave these two questions open for you to answer with your opinions in the comments. We read each other.

AI generated cover image.