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The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive (www.theverge.com)
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[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club -4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

$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".

[–] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

the fuck you are smoking? my first desktop kost that much and it ran crysis really fucking good

[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Better than a PS5 Pro? Bruh 😂

[–] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Adjusted to inflation and time, hell yes

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