PS6: If you thought PS5 Pro price was bad, wait ’til you hear the price estimate for the next-gen console

Sony mightiness make PS6 — PlayStation's next-gen console — very costly astatine launch.

In a chat pinch GamesBeat, aggregate salient games manufacture analysts, including Circana's Mat Piscatella and Midia Research's Rhys Elliott, expect a theoretical PlayStation 6 to costs astir $600, whenever it comes out, though that apt won't beryllium anytime soon.

Sony is astir to merchandise nan $700 PS5 Pro successful November, and these analysts judge nan immense value tag connected that mid-generation update console is simply a benignant of proceedings balloon for much costly consoles successful nan future.

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For reference, nan OG PS5 launched astatine $400 without a disc thrust and $500 with a disc thrust successful 2020, truthful a $600 PS6 would so beryllium an escalation for an entry-level machine.

But Sony mightiness person an uphill climb to get there. The net raised torches and pitchforks erstwhile nan PS5 Pro value was announced a mates of weeks ago, but possibly much applicable to this chat is what happened erstwhile Sony primitively revealed nan value of nan PlayStation 3 successful 2006. The building "five 100 and ninety-nine U.S. dollars" has echoed done nan halls of net history ever since.

For those who retrieve nan aged days, it mightiness beryllium difficult to judge that Sony would repetition history much than 20 years later. But, for illustration it aliases not, ostentation is real, and prices thin to climb complete time, whether it makes consciousness aliases not.

If you’re eyeing a PS6, it mightiness beryllium wise to commencement redeeming up now.