Poll: How Much Do You Think the PS5 Will Cost?

Well, i think everyone more or less agrees with each other, we can see that on the pole

I believe 500$ will be the price.but sony is definitely waiting for Microsoft to announce theyre price first thats a fact black.word life .word is bond.word to your mother.word ☝ up son

I had to Google exchange rates, as I'll be buying it in pounds and not dollars. Either way I reckon it'll be £549 with disc drive and £399 without. Its an expensive disc drive in the console and Sony will also want more people tied digitally as they then have to shop through their PS store alone.

I believe both will be in the 399.99-499.99 range.

It would make sense for the disc drive option to be between $50 to $100 more than the digital edition.

I think this is going to be pretty difficult decision for playstation. As pointed out by Digital Foundry, a uhd drive, in the full fat ps5 would probably only cost around £20 or something. So if Playstation is to drop the digital edition £100 cheaper than the full fat to make it look a better value, they would be able to easily make that back by the sales of software from the ps store. But, then you have the storage issue. So do they double the ssd storge size to 1.625tb for the digital edition but then this would probably make the digital edition cost more?? Id personally be going all digital, just like i have with ps4, cost depending obviously??

You a fool if you think it's gonna be 399.

PS5 £449
PS5 DE £429

Could someone that thinks it will be $299 or under explain how you got to that number 😅

You're all mad if you think Sony will go anywhere near the 600 mark. They want to forget "599 US Dollars" ever happened, they are not going to do that again. I can't see them going over 499 in any version, it's absurd. Especially since they've got competition to consider. Reminder, both the PS4 and PS4 Pro launched at 399 new, they're not going to almost double that.

It would also explain why they're shipping with a tiny drive, they're keeping costs as low as possible.

I say $550 and $600. The difference between the One S and One SAD is $50. And then I feel like $600 is about the highest you can reasonably go for a console. After that, you're getting into "might as well get a PC" territory

I can see Sony subsidising the digital only version to a much higher loss compared to the standard version. The guarantee of the extra revenue down the line from digital only purchases as opposed to physical which they will get a lot less money per game sold.
Standard £449
Digital only £349

I think the digital edition will only be 50 - 75 off the standard price - which is probably about the [inflated?] price difference for the disc drive and the increased form-factor for having one.

Bloody dollars? Push Square, UK sellouts.

I dont tend to buy games that are available on disc digitally so i dont know if the below is true.

Given the storage footprint that physical games require on ps4, i assume there is no difference in file size between a digital and physical title?

If that is the case i dont see things changing next gen, which makes me question if the digital only ps5 will ship with a larger ssd. I dont think it will. Sony have already said that file sizes should actually end up being smaller

I wouldn't be surprised to see Sony ship the physical edition at 499-550, and touting the digital model at a more customer friendly price point of say, 399.

Lets be honest. Sony want the digital version to sell as many units as possible to continue the shift from physical media to digital purchases, where they will get a bigger slice of the pie.

PS5 - £549
PS5DE - £449-£479

Those are my predictions. I don't think the DE will be too much cheaper, but then as Fuzzymonkeyfunk mentioned, they may be willing to take a large loss on the system with the intentions of making it back through digital sales.

Also, Pushsquare, embrace your country and give us the UK prices. Let the Americans do currency conversion for once. 😂

How much is the ps5 worth it for you? Me personally. More then a new flagship Phone.
So more then 8000 kr. That will be 1200$

Can we have some currency that i can understand, without having to go and work out exchange rates?
I thought this was a UK based site?

PS4 reduced to £199, pro to £249
PS5 digital £349
PS5 drive £399

I think it will be $499 for Digital & $599 for with 4k drive

@Rob_230 Yep, correct no difference in file sizes between digital and physical versions. I think some people believe otherwise and it is a bit of a myth.

If I had enough money I'd buy both versions. In a few years PS5 with a 4K disc drive will be like the BC compatible PS3 fat. I'm getting the digital only version as I have 0 physical games for PS4.

It sounds like a lot of people will be angry if this thing is $500/$600 for the 5AD/5 respectively.

@DrClayman
Tiny drive.? The price for custom SSD? With 5.5 gb/s.
How much do you think its worth? Atleast 200 $

£499 disc, £449 digital is my best bet.

£50 either way for best and worst case scenarios.

@Tharsman it won’t be that high. So no anger necessary.

@DrClayman I feel like that whole value vs price quote is their way of pre-warning everybody that this thing is going be expensive.

@Rob_230 for any game to take advantage or the SSD, it will have to be fully installed. The disk this gen will only be use for digital right management and to avoid a huge download by installing from the disk instead.

Digital or standard, both consoles will require as much HD space to store games.

@MarcG420 we shall see in a couple of months. The cooling design Sony came up with does not look cheap.

They've done a great deal for the ssd's so that'll keep the price down.

Given the power of this thing and the cost of a comparable PC, 599 seems legit and justified to me, when the Switch is 329 in most areas.

Also, if you haven't leaped onto the 4K train yet (I haven't), to make the best from it you're at least looking at another 500 to get a reasonable, gaming-ready HDR 4K TV. Still, all combined, cheaper than a reasonable 4K PC.

There will be at least a price difference of $100 between the digital and UHD Disc version. They will not make 2 different consoles only to make the price difference a couple of bucks. You'de be a fool not tot buy the disc version if the price difference is that narrow when the machines are completely identical otherwise.
$399 for digital
$499 for disc version

I say at $500. Around there.

@Ridwaano you've clearly not shopped for an SSD in a while mate. You can grab them easily at below £100/TB. This thing is 800 gig, and mass produced, so my guess is it will cost them around 100, if that.

And besides that, if they don't sell the thing, it doesn't matter. If the SeXbox comes out at 450, they will not want to be over 500.

Hopping for $499 / $599 USD

Digital Edition is not really an option. I use GameFly.com rentals and trade in my old games to Amazon for credit to offset game prices.

Lets face it that SSD everyone wanted will add the most cost to PS5. Its came out that it will cost $450 for parts. Add on building it and logistics of shipping and possible tariffs. Sony wants to know Microsofts price. I hope they can make a small proffit yet still undercut Microsofts price. I feel good in what i think Sony will price the PS5 at.

I think $499 for main console and either $399 or $449 for digital

If a smart phone can cost 1k plus, a console coukd too. So 1k.

@FKUBT I did not buy a 1K phone, I would not buy a 1K console!!!

PS: you can buy a 4K HDR 55" TV for $499

$500 USD for the standard console, $400-$450 for the digital edition.

500 English pounds would be my guess

PS5 - £499
PS5 Digital Edition - £399

Frankly, I don't even expect the digital edition to hit anything below 500 (or 499 if we're speaking Marketese), and the standard one will probably repeat PS3's risky move if Sony's psychological prep-sounding comments are any indication. Better to be pleasantly surprised about it later. Hardly (no pun intended) unfair prices for such ridiculous innards either, but people's buying capacity around the end of the year will play first fiddle here anyway.

If anything, I daresay it could be a bit better for Sony to announce the price ASAP those it may deter are likely not in the urgent market for the nuances like 3D audio and fast loading times anyway, and those already sold on that (or itching to play the recently showcased lineup) will at least know in advance what sum to start saving up.

Don’t care about the cost. She will be mine. Oh yes, she will be mine.

Well, let's take a stab at it:
With disc drive: 549
Without 479

Both too much for me at launch.

@IronMike 599 pounds?!?! So what, they're gonna launch at 699 dollars or over? That's madness

Hopefully it will be under £500 if not then the internet will hate(but of course not hate on Microsoft if their X...(whatever it's called) is over £500) I have PlayStation in my BLOOD but even I wouldn't pay over £500 for a Games Console whatever it can do(unless it has FULL B/C of every PS game then I probably would but just about buy it)

My prediction is this:

Disc - $449
Digital - $399

Give or take $50, these will be the prices. I know a lot of you think I'm lowballing this, and you're welcome to come back to this thread with a big fat "I told you so" when that time comes. I'm quite convinced that's the region they'll go for.

@AJDarkstar @53TheNewButler thing to keep in mind: when you remove the disk drive, you are not just cutting down the price of the physical disk drive. You are eliminating:

•DVD playback license fees
•BluRay playback license fees (are separate)
•4K BluRay playback license fees (again, are separate and likely why the PS4Pro didn’t support 4K Blu-ray)
•eliminate the used game market from those users
•retailer revenue share, since games are now only* available digitally.

So it is not unreasonable that they can try sell the PS 5AD for a 100 discount.

*retailers still tend to sell codes, but these codes come in paper cards and don’t take almost any shelf space so retailers don’t tend to discount them for liquidation as often, this heavily reduces their incentives to buy physical

@DrClayman
Well it ain't any regular SSD.
Look at the speed of it. That why it going to cost more

@Carl-G Im not sure why you think no one would hate on MS if it releases the most expensive console. Microsoft got tons of hate for doing that at the XBone launch.

@ApostateMage
I voted based on sterling. I ignored the dollar sign, I found it to offensive to comprehend.

@Ridwaano yea, that SSD is not even available in the market yet. It’s the main reason I think the PS5 with disk will be more expensive than the XSX Fridge. That and the cooling approach also seems more expensive on the PS5.

I've said it once and I'll say it again. Payment plan. People are willing to spend 20-30 a month on phones without worrying about the total cost. If Sony comes out with the PS5 in the 500-600 range it's going to be too much for the average consumer to dish out in one go.

@Ridwaano it’s a regular ssd with a custom controller and other custom hardware. Nobody really knows what the other custom hardware would cost but the drive itself (by which I mean the nand chips) is likely unremarkable.

Have been saying the same since PS5 specs were announced: £499.

I hope that whatever the price is, they repeat the original PlayStation announcement. Imagine hours after Microsoft announcing their price, a Sony executive casually says twoninteynine and walks off a stage.

@TheMysticOne
Fully agree on this, my prediction too (already predicted!!)

Want UHD drive, hoping it's a better one then the current Sony x700 I have which is ok but puts everything in Dolby Vision regardless and can be known to freeze now and then.

Why does everyone think the price will be that low? The current PS4 is still $300, I hope the PS5 is over $599. I mean go look up the price of some PC Graphics cards, some mediocre video cards are more then that.

$599 for disc drive, $549 or $499 for digital. "Value as opposed to price" - they're prepping us for a higher price tag.

I think it'll be 500 for the disc edition, and 400-450 for the digital edition, depending on how aggressive Sony decides to be with it. 100 dollars sounds like a big difference, but Sony might be willing to take the hit since digital sales are more profitable, so they can make back that money pretty quick.

$449-$499

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2013?amount=400

@AJDarkstar it's a 4k UHD Player in the PS5. No blu ray player on the market is available for £50 that's 4K and UHD. If it was a standard blu ray I'd agree but it isn't, and that will drive the price up. Its good that it has a high quality disc drive and not a bog standard one, but the parts are way more than £50.
My PS4 pro laser went in my disc drive a few months back and just the laser for that alone cost £28 in parts. They are more expensive than you think component wise.

isn't the official name of the digital edition 'PS5 Bulge-less'

I am still hoping Sony will sell the PS5 at a loss to keep the price down as much as possible.

@pip_muzz when you buy millions and are the producer the price is considerably lower.

i think sony will be daring and mark the digital version of the console $100 cheaper than the optical-drive sku. they will willingly take a loss on it for the sole purpose of funelling as many people as possible into the digital ecostysem. in that way, they will turn higher profit margins on software and can speed up the eventual demise of physical software. i think it is very likely that this is the last gen with physical media and sony has 7 years to transition and ease people in. $100 price difference will convert many people and would be a wise move for sony.

of course, that strategy will not work on old school gamers such as myself who already have a large library of physical ps4 games and want b/c on ps5, but at least half of the userbase will have no qualms with going digital.

UK I'm thinking £450 with disk and £400 without. If Microsoft announce price first PlayStation might opt to match or undercut.

Normal 549 USD
Digital 499 USD

@Agramonte I used to use Gamefly until my local public library started carrying games. Their Switch selection is really limited but they have most big games on PS4. It's enough to keep my kids and I busy along with the games we buy. We also trade some in to Amazon. So yeah, disc drive for us as well unless the price is really different and PS Now turns more into Xbox Gamepass. Which is really the main selling factor for an Xbox that Sony doesn't have, lot's of newer games for $15/m. Sony may merge PS+ and Now at some point. They already dropped Vue, after I bought the PDP Cloud remote.

In £ for me being in the UK £450 but I’ll be ok with £500 anymore and I’ll still get but I would be worried for Sony again doing another ps3 thing.
As for the price difference between the two models I’m gonna say none both the same price because I would hope the digital version gets more memory storage because it needs it and the extra memory makes up for the fact there’s no disc drive at least in price so they will both be the same just my opinion.

$499 digital / $599 disc.

As an aside, the poll is largely useless as currently worded, as for example a $499 console could be assigned to either “$399 to $499” or “$499 to $599”.

Are these $$ before or after taxes? Or how does it work on that side of the pond?

£350 was the RRP for the PS4 and Pro at launch so I think the Digital edition will match that. Even sold at a loss the gains from digital game sales will be substantial.
The version with a disc drive on the other hand... my guess is about £450.

£500 is a good ballpark figure for the disc based version, or have sony announced they may do a price cut to get some sold at the start?

My prediction is:
PS5 with disc drive = $449
PS5 digital edition = $349

PS5: $499/£449
PS5 DE: $429/£379

Put it in £ and I'll vote. Haha
I'm guessing a good £499.00 conversion never works as we always pay the same figure.

£50 less for the digital.

@DrClayman The value of $1 has not remained the same for the last 14 years. Paying $600 in 2006(PS3 release) would have been the same as paying $760 in 2020. Similarly if the PS4 were released now it wouldn't be $400, it'd be $450. A $500 console in 2020 would be around $350 in 2006. And you're not even taking into account how expensive consumer electronics have gotten in the last 5 years years or the tariffs currently in place by the US Government(for instance, this alone raised the PS5's price by $50).
People nowadays are used to paying premium prices. Sony knows this and Sony actually wants this(gamers often forget PlayStation is the only successful division of Sony, their hardware, music, and movie divisions have cratered. Sony is looking to make revenue any way they can this gen and are not willing to take loses on development) so you shouldn't be surprised to see a price tag matching that. There is a reason why Jim Ryan said they are focusing more on value than price and why Sony is projecting more than 20% fewer console sales with the PS5 than the PS4: it will be around $600 for the all digital and $650-$700 for the disc version. By the way, you should expect PS Plus to get a price hike and it will likely be mandatory for many of the PS5's features.

All of this is moot for me personally. I'd rather these companies make real next gen machines that cost $1000+ than the dinky little half steps we are getting. Even if you have a super low paying job(~$25 an hour) you could save enough for that in less than three weeks.

Fun. I'm sure I'll need a second controller and some games. And, those eco fees. Plus, the gubment is gonna want their 12% on top of that. Woohoo! Gonna be a lot. Probably won't get one for at least six months after release.

@TheFinalBoss710 It's a games console mate, nothing premium about it. Funny you mention that 450 would be the PS4's price today as opposed to 400, because 450 is exactly what I'm saying the PS5 will cost.

Anyway, you're not changing my mind, and I clearly am not changing yours. As I said, get back to me when the prices are announced. We'll see who was right then 🙂

I predict 400 for digital and 500 regular.

The always on mic means I wouldnt buy it for a dollar.

Even though a bluray drive would only cost them about $20, they're going to make the discless one about $100 less to drive people towards digital, then after those people have bought a few games they'll have ended up spending more than if they'd bought the disc version and the same games on disc. A lot of people are gonna jump at the chance to save $100 without thinking about how they'll spend $100s and $100s more on digital games across the gen.

@chadders it'll work the same as the PS4, you'll have to store the physical games on your HDD anyway.

I think the price will land at:
499 and 449 for the Digital Edition.

$599 for the disc drive version / $499 for the digital version. I feel reading these results these look suspiciously more like what people WANT it to cost, as opposed to what the reality of this is going to be. Unless Sony are planning on taking a pretty big hit on the cost of the console in order to rake it back in from loyalty sales (software, accesories etc - which is the only viable reason). I can't see this costing under those values. The SSD alone is an enormous cost, particularly since it's cutting edge SSD tech, not to mention the actual GPU and CPU power this behemoth is putting out.

Also, i understand at least some of that 1% is trolling, but the remaining few who legitimately think that either of these consoles are going to be under 300 bucks are seriously on some kind of drug.

You should get that guy from escape to the country to reveal the actual price after taking all these guesses 😂

Given the high water mark of the launch 60gb ps3 being $1000 Aussie dollaryroos I'll be surprised at anything much south of $750 for the 4k UHD blu ray model ps5. :-/
Lovely tech,but not going to be cheap. Asides from the extra controller etc.,daresay a lot of the early buyers will be keeping a watch on the approved SSD expansion drive prices to expand the internal storage.

Why on earth is this in dollars? Come guys this is a UK website, I'm buying it in pounds and I'll vote for it to be £429, £499 for disc version. I'll vote when you put the proper currency up. How stupid.

I am thinking £450 for the disc version & £350 - £400 for digital, whatever the price I think the digital version will be about £100 cheaper.

Sony will most likely announce price and preorders after the July Xbox event

Disc drive will be $499.99 and £499.99, All Digital $449.99 and £449.99.

I think the disk drive version will be £499.00 / $499.00 with the all digital being more subsidised and coming in between £350 - £400 / $350.00 - $400.00. Sony know they’ll be able to recoup some of the initial loss on digital game sales

@pip_muzz yea the writers are from the UK too making this a UK site. Kind of annoyed they posted the vote in dollars. I get why they did it but cant help but feel a little alienated

@Mostik I think £100 cheaper for the diskless version is about right (even though the price of a optical drive is only £40). Sony will make up for the loss in PSN purchases at stupidly inflated prices. e.g my copy of LOU2 is in the post for £44.95 but its £10 more on PSN. I'll make back at least £30 in a few weeks when I sell it on FB buy and sell. Then when its included on PS Plus in about two years time ill play it again for free.

Even if the disc drive version costs less than 599 usd. It will definetly cost more than 599 usd in Norway. probably closer to 800 usd

@Tha_Likely_Lad Yeah I agree, I don't sell my games as I like to collect them but everything you say makes sense, I really don't understand why people would buy digital when it is always about £10 more it is something Sony get wrong IMO - no packaging or supply chains but it cost more!?!? Can I ask where did you get TLOU2 from at that price? I think my copy was £50 from Amazon as I wasn't sure Game would be back open in time so took the hit on price!

@Mostik the game collection mate they are great always ship RM 1st class and you can usually get your pre orders for 45 quid at a max. If you early enough on pre order then usually 39.99. I managed to bag FF7 remake for that price.

Here in Brazil, it will cost around US$1.000 since today a Dollar worths way more that it worthed during PS4 release. A PS4 Pro today costs around US$750.

@Tha_Likely_Lad Thanks, I wasn't aware of this site some great prices on there I will definitely try them out as we all know Amazon can fail to deliver on release day from time to time but hopefully not this week! Cheers for the tip 👍

@vegeta11 That is my guess too which is a little annoying because a disc drive/license isn't $100 but I'm sure they'll use the disc version to subsidize the digital version. I only 'want' the disc version for bluray, but at that price point it wouldn't make any sense.

Hopefully.... $499 for digital and $449 for disc version. Wondering about PS5 VR too. No info at all makes me think it won't be ready to bundle at launch...

Sorry pushsquare but why change the voting options from the previous poll? This means we can’t compare results comparatively from what we voted before as the options differ!

Also I want to say it’s gonna be 499 yet there’s two options I can choose for that. Proper flawed 🤦‍♂️

I predict $500 USD for the regular edition, and $450 USD for the digital edition.

Also, regular edition all the way. No one is limiting me with how I use my electronics. Shove your all digital BS.

@icecube
Yeah i know that. What i mean is, as you dont have the option on the digital edition to reinstall games from disc if you have to delete them, would they double down on internal storage to save you having to redownload your games. There is also the option to store ps5 games on an external hdd as we know, but i wonder how fast transfers will be back to the internal ssd???

Either way, im pretty sure they wont be giving more storage space on the digital edition as its that custom, it would cost far to much to sell 👍🏻

@rjejr PC Game Pass has me turning to my PC more and more. It really is an amazing value for the money.

Just being able to check out smaller games out like Indivisible, A plague Tale, Phoenix Point, Minecraft Dungeons and Street of Rage 4 it is worth the money. That you get Gears 5, Gears Tactics, Outer Worlds, Ori - will of the wisp on Day 1 is just crazy.

Really not sure anyone else can afford this. There is no way Microsoft is not using Windows10 and Office Enterprise money to finance the service @$5.

I saw Amazon price list 3 days ago for ps5 standard listed as 499 euros and digital only 399.

Yea £500 for disc £400 for the digital! I am very excited by this im a big kid for a new console generation launch!
Thanks for this read.

@Agramonte PC Game Pass

That's the Xbox games on PC, not some Win X thing? Both my kids had that for a few months, and I got in on a 3 months for $1 deal awhile back. We don't own an Xbox, but w/ Gamepass there really isn't much reason too. Well except my PC is many years old and weak. Got my son a video card for Christmas and he bought himself some RAM, it's serviceable now, but barely.

Even w/ PS Now on PC Id' still probably buy a PS5 to game on my Tv, I'm old, I like the simplicity. The days of Linux builds is way behind me. Decades behind.

@DrClayman Lol I spend more than $500 a week on dab. A device that's supposed to last me ~7 years and provide thousands of hours of entertainment should be $1000+, hell I'd pay $2500 for something truly next gen. Once you kids get jobs and your parents aren't buying everything for you you'll see that $500 is nothing.

@chadders so is your worry more about using a data limit? In my experience downloading a game online takes just as much time as transferring the data from a disk. Or for slow connections it can just be left to download overnight. Either way it doesn't sound like storage is the issue really.

But to answer your question, no there will be no way at all the digital edition will have additional storage.

@TheFinalBoss710 Okay pal 🙂

@icecube
No worries really. I've been all digital on my PS4 as I've got a PS Vita, which I used for remote play. I went all digital so all my games were always available without having to switch discs. My PS4 Pro has 6Tb of storage. 2 internal and 4 external. So at any time, if I want to play any game I have, it's always on the system and ready to play straight away, no waiting for installs from discs or downloading again from PS store. Just a quality of life thing really. I don't think we should have to think in advance if we want to play a game because it has to be reinstalled/re downloaded. If I want to play a game I already own, it should be available straight away. This started to be an issue when games had to be installed to internal hdd due to read speed restrictions from Blu-ray discs.

So basically, if I'm playing the last of us part 2 and decided I want to play a quick game of Tetris or something, as my PS4 is set up now, i can. But if Tetris wasn't on my system, i would have to either wait for it to install from disc or download.

But if these were both PS5 games, as i understand the PS5 set up, Tetris could be stored on my external hdd if i didn't have enough ssd space internally, but would need to be transfered to internal ssd to play it. Obviously, there's going to be the option to add internal ssd storage to the PS5, but im telling you now, these internal ssd drive will be very expensive, think between £150-£200 if not more.

I think Mark Cerny tried to get across that people having to redownload their games wouldn't really be to much of an inconvenience. But i think people with poor internet speeds would disagree with that. I just think it's a nice idea to be able to have all the games you own for the system ready to play straight away when you want to???

@Agramonte Wow. So I turned on my PC this morning and Xbox app was opened. And I never knew PC Game Pass was a thing and only $5 per month, I only knew about the $15 combined Gamepass for PC and Xbox. $5 is crazy cheap. It says they have Minecraft Dungeons, that's a new $20 game right there. Thanks for the info. Sorry about the 2 separate replies, sometimes I get carried away.

Yes!!!... $5, it is crazy!.

They let PC owners "Pre-install" Gears 5, Gears Tactics, Mine Craft Dungeons, Outer Worlds, Ori: Will of the wisp. And they were all live on Day 1.

That is $240!

Next XBOX Studio games in Grounded by Obsidian - it already lets you pre-install. Your kids might like it.

I also use it to test out Indies.

No worries... I somehow missed the alert on your last comment - so 1 for me 😁

Ps5 £400 British pounds
Ps5 digital £329

If Sony is smart they will have to make it cheaper than the xbox series x imo. The ps3 was far too expensive compared to the x360 and it took sony a few years to be almost on par with xbox 360 in terms of games and price iirc

If it's any more than 450 I'll just wait until winter sales no point in being a early adopter since most of the good games are out in 2021

@JohnKarnes I dont care if you buying one or not. The poll ask what I think and I say 1k.