Although Sony has not specified how much either version will cost, the price of the PlayStation 5 is expected to be different in both options.
The price of the PlayStation 5 is one of the biggest unknowns today for future buyers of Sony’s next-generation console. During the machine presentation event, the console with its peripherals was shown at the end of the meeting; with the surprise that there will be two and not one models available with the launch: Standard and Digital Edition. From Digital Foundry they have calculated the production cost of the digital model and, therefore, what savings can be expected compared to the one that will have a Blu-ray reader.
Clear accounts: what will be the difference of producing one model and another
There is evidence that can be verified at the beginning: PlayStation 5 Standard is more expensive to produce than the only digital model. No surprises. Now, what is the extra cost of the disc reader? The British media has consulted sources close to the production of hardware to estimate that it will be about $ 20 savings in this section. In turn, we must add another $ 8 for each game sold in digital format compared to what Sony gets when selling the titles in physical format (where there is production, manufacturing, distribution and royalties).
Both models of PS5 can also be arranged horizontally.
Digital Foundry estimates that each PS5 buyer will get an average of 3-4 games — rough historical average — out this Christmas, so they expect PlayStation 5 Digital Edition to cost about $ 50 less than PS5 Standard Edition. In case the latter goes on sale for $ 499, the source expects Digital Edition to do the same for $ 449.
The official price of PS5 is, at the date of publication of this article, unknown.
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is due out in 2020; Horizon: Forbidden West hopes to hit stores in 2021. They were the two most acclaimed video games from the launch event.
PS5 will be released worldwide in Christmas 2020
Other aspects that we should not forget is that Sony has officially insisted that there will be no greater difference than the disc reader in PlayStation 5 Standard and Digital Edition. It did not come out, yes, if those technical similarities (CPU, GPU …) will affect the size of the SSD storage memory. At least the version with disk reader will have 825 GB. It is currently unknown whether the digital model, predisposed and required as a series to download all content, will have greater capacity.
PlayStation 5 will go on sale worldwide in late 2020. After its launch event, we already know the first batch of exclusive video games from PlayStation Studios, as well as those that are also part of other companies with a cross-platform nature. . You can check here everything we know for now about PS5 and an updated list with all its confirmed games.
