Sony Laughs at PC Gamers, RTX 4070 Is Not the Same as PS5 Pro
The Sony CEO recently spoke in an interview with the Nikkei economic daily about PC gaming and the company’s vision for PlayStation. There were words that could be perceived as unfavorable to computers. Digital Foundry also weighed in on the same issue, examining the profitability of PC vs. PS5 Pro.
Sony not particularly worried that people are reaching for PC
Hideaki Nishino, who serves as the director together with Hiroki Totoki PlayStation CEO spoke about PS5 console alternatives and whether he fears them. Nishino wasn’t particularly worried:
“A lot of mobile games have ads, and PCs are hard to set up. But PlayStation lets you play games you’ve bought as soon as you turn on your console. The titles are very well-displayed in the digital store, so (PS5) is intuitive to use.”
However, the PlayStation CEO admitted that Sony will introduce more games to PC and try to increase its share of this market. On the other hand, he admitted that it was PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro consoles will remain the company’s core business“By offering titles for devices other than consoles, we will reach a wider audience,” he added.
PS5 Pro Like RTX 4070, And No AMD Chip Has These Things
The Digital Foundry team, interviewed by IGN, also spoke about the profitability of PC vs PS5. DF’s Richard Leadbetter admitted that a PC with similar capabilities to the PlayStation 5 Pro would cost “a lot more.” He also compared the graphics card in the PS5 Pro to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070.
Digital Foundry Editor said:
“If you look at all the components, with the improved ray tracing and machine learning modules, you don’t have that in any AMD card on the market. That makes it almost like an Nvidia-style feature set delivered by AMD. So the closest GPU equivalent would be the RTX 4070, and the cheapest of them costs $540 (PS5 Pro costs $699 in the US – editor’s note). When you add in the additional components, those costs pile up and it ends up being much more expensive.”
Leadbetter notes, however, that on the PS5 Pro you have to pay for “the honor of playing online and accessing cloud saves.” On the subject of who is the PlayStation 5 Pro for – the British journalist said that it is rather for players who already have a PS5 and have extra money to afford a better version of the console. “If they suddenly jumped out of the PlayStation ecosystem and went to PC, they would have to abandon their entire library that they could have been collecting for 10 years.”
PS5 Pro will debut in Poland on November 7 for around PLN 3,499.
