PS5 Pro Price Hasn't Had A "Negative Impact" On Sales

Sony’s Hiroki Totoki asserts that the $700 price ticket connected to the PS5 Professional, which additionally sells particular attachments just like the disc drive individually whereas not working with present PS5 faceplates, hasn’t had a unfavorable influence on the console as “hardcore customers” are the demographic of the mid-gen refresh.

Noticed by Genki, the exec expressed that he — and the corporate itself isn’t too frightened concerning the value and the way the console isn’t promoting poorly.

Sony President, COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki says the PS5 Professional pricing has not had a unfavorable influence and that it’s aimed toward hardcore customers #PS5Pro

“Hardcore customers are the goal of this {hardware}”

“By way of the pricing many individuals made totally different feedback on that, however pricing on… pic.twitter.com/jTs2UYtVez

— Genki✨ (@Genki_JPN) November 8, 2024

The console itself is faltering when it comes to the usual rounds consoles face with scalpers. Whereas scalpers jumped at PS5 flipping through the chip shortages and even bled into the PlayStation Portal, the PS5 Professional’s ROI is considerably much less, resulting in early scalpers promoting the console for market worth and even barely much less simply to get it off their fingers.