A couple of weeks ago, Sony, officially announced the specs of its upcoming gaming console – PlayStation 5. There have been numerous speculations with regard to the price of this console. While some believe that a $399 price tag will be ideal, others think that it would sell for as high as $800. This wide price range shows that the industry really has no idea about the cost of the PS5. Nevertheless, recent information from a Danish online store, føtex, shows that the PlayStation 5 will cost a massive 6989 Kr. ($1032).
Danish online store PlayStation 5 price is ridiculous
This store is Denmark’s largest offline retailer and the PS5 landing page shows that it is already on pre-order. According to the information on the Danish online store landing page, the PS5 has a November 2020 expected launch date. Though it’s hard to believe, if the price is true, then the price is simply outrageous. This means that the PlayStation 5 will be three times more expensive than PS4’s $399 launch price. It will also be over twice the median predicted price limit ($ 450-499).
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According to Sony’s official announcement, the PS5 will us an AMD custom 8-core Zen 2 CPU. The graphics support 10.28 trillion floating-point operations per second, and 36 CU units of RNDA level 2 GPUs. The host’s memory is 16GB GDDR6, with a custom version of 825GB solid-state hard drive and 4K UHD Blu-ray drive. This console will be directly compatible with PS4 games.
PLAYSTATION 5 VS XBOX SERIES X – SPECS COMPARISON
| | PlayStation 5 | Xbox Series X |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz (variable frequency, with SMT) | 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.8GHz (3.6GHz with SMT) |
| GPU | 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz (variable frequency) | 12.16 TFLOPs, 52 CUs at 1.825GHz |
| GPU Architecture | Custom RDNA 2 w/ hardware RT support | Custom RDNA 2 w/ hardware RT support |
| Memory | 16GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 448GB/s | 10GB at 560GB/s, 6GB at 336GB/s |
| Internal Storage | Custom 825GB NVMe SSD | 1TB Custom NVMe SSD |
| IO Throughput | 5.5GB/s (Raw), 8-9GB/s (Compressed) | 2.4GB/s (Raw), 4.8GB/s (Compressed) |
| Expandable Storage | NVMe SSD Slot | 1TB Expansion Card |
| External Storage | USB HDD Support | USB HDD Support |
| Optical Drive | 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive | 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive |
| HDMI | 2.1 (4K/120Hz, 8K, VRR) | 2.1 (4K/120Hz, 8K, VRR) |
| Backward compatibility | PlayStation 4 | Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One |
| Price | TBA | TBA |