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The story
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on October 4 that it will wind down production of the PlayStation 5 lineup (standard model and Digital Edition) by the end of March 2027. Production volumes have already begun stepping down in some regions, and sales themselves are expected to end once remaining stock runs out. On 5ch, many users shared how much they’d felt the leap in performance since the PS4, while discussion also drifted toward speculation about the next-gen PS6’s specs and price, with opinions split over how much of a price hike to expect relative to the current PS5 Pro.
What people said
The models affected are the standard PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition. Production volumes have already been scaled back step by step in some regions, and sales are expected to end once market stock is depleted.
Though yeah, they're not putting out new games for PS4 anymore, are they.
Once you play on PS5 you can't go back to how slow the PS4's loading is
There aren't many left, but the load times between the PS4 and PS5 versions are night and day
They're not seriously gonna say the PS6 outperforms it, right…?
Obviously the 6 will be better
Was the PS4 Pro ever on par with the PS5?
The PS6 being better is a given
I went through that with the PS4 Pro, so I skipped the 5 Pro
I'd want it to go PS6 < PS5 Pro < PS6 Pro, roughly
If you're buying a 6, you might as well get the 6 Pro
Same games run smoother with higher frame rates on better hardware
It's way too much of an edge in competitive games too
Hoping for 120,000 yen, but realistically probably 160,000
And even that's the most optimistic guess
From what's been reported so far, it'd be nice if it came in under $100… over that, I mean
But at minimum it'll cost more than the Pro model
Don't need that trailing zero
Here, changed the ending for you
"Couldn't afford one," you mean 😂
No way, absolutely not
The PS5 Pro was 140,000 yen
Since it'll have even higher specs, it's bound to cost more than the Pro
I own Sony stock… I should probably sell this
Ending production this soon is way too fast
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The PS5 launched in 2020, and including Pro models, the production cycle for home consoles is generally considered to run about 6 to 7 years. This announcement applies to the standard model and the Digital Edition, and as the phrasing “winding down” and “sales will end once stock runs out” suggests, it’s easy to misread this as the console vanishing from stores the moment the announcement dropped — it won’t. What divided the thread was speculation over the PS6’s price: with the current PS5 Pro priced around 140,000 yen as a baseline, many guessed somewhere in the upper 100,000s to 160,000 yen range, reflecting a shared assumption that price hikes are unavoidable for the next generation given semiconductor costs and exchange rates. Worth noting, though: the dramatic difference in load times people describe between the PS4 and PS5 generations owes more to the shift in storage method (from HDD to SSD) than to raw hardware power alone.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyou G) thread “[Sad News] PS5 Production Ending wwww.”
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