• realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOP
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    9 days ago

    $700 is actually probably a fair price for a PS5. You can’t really build an equivalent PC for less than that. $900 to $1,200 would probably be close to how much manufacturing the PS5 Pro costs.

    But PSN subsidizes these costs, which is why these systems can be this “affordable”.

    • Farid@startrek.website
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      9 days ago

      I doubt it costs that much. You’re looking at it from buying PC components perspective. But they are mass producing identical boards with components that are 4+ years old by now, except the GPU. The cost of production is probably around the same as it was for non-Pro when it was released.