One of the worst things you can do is fall into the Osborne effect, which is making an announcement too soon about a product that isn’t on sale yet and can negatively affect the buying interest of potential users. However, it is often used as a throwing weapon against competing products to hinder their commercial success. Is the PS5 Pro such a case? Let’s see.
Three reasons why we think we won’t see the PS5 Pro
There are several reasons why the rumor of a possible PS5 Pro makes no sense and no, it’s not that we have Nostradamus’ crystal ball, but a series of indicators that let us know that the rumor will come to nothing, but that we decided to order them and explain them. Of course, SONY itself can do a 180º turn at the last minute and deny what we say in this article, but at the moment there is more against a possible PS5 Pro.
The SONY Interactive of today is different from that of a few years ago
We can define each company through three elements of analysis: resources are what it has to do things, processes are the way it does things and, therefore, its capacities to develop products and services, and the motives are ethics. focus on the previous two elements. It is important to know that a directive is not the same thing as a previous or subsequent directive.
The current SONY board of directors with Jim Ryan at the helm, despite the fact that he launched two versions of PS5 in the market, did not launch one more powerful than the other, they only differ by the fact that one has an optical drive and the other does not. An opposite policy, to that of Microsoft’s Xbox Series, where Series S and Series X, although using the same architecture, both have completely different hardware configurations.
Therefore, the mentality of the current PlayStation is not aligned with the idea of launching a PS5 Pro in the market and there would have to be a transition that we are not aware of at SONY at the moment, which involves a change of direction. and ongoing plans we don’t know exist for the console to exist.
PS4 Pro did not sell what was expected
The company’s staunchest fans find it hard to come to terms with the company’s fiascos, it’s a trauma to recognize that like any other company formed by human beings, PlayStation makes mistakes and glitches from time to time. . While the PS4 Pro hasn’t reached the “success” levels of things like the PlayStation Classic, the first PS VR, its latest handheld, and a long list of products, one has to rely on the fact that it doesn’t. only sold 20% of the volume of the normal model.
Well, we don’t think SONY wants to repeat the experience in the form of a PS5 Pro, so that would be the second reason why we should rule it out.
The PS5 is getting better and better, a Pro version is not necessary
Whatever your opinion of the console, the PS5 is a success and booming in terms of sales and one product is only superseded or eclipsed by another because its interest is waning and therefore because it will have a long life expectancy. life like its predecessors is a fact. Also, we should see the Pro model as an exception and not the norm itself.
In any case, and finally, if SONY had a PlayStation with greater capacity in the room, which would not be surprising, it does not mean that it will appear. But it would make more sense that in case the PS5 fell out of favor that for marketing reasons, SONY would call its future console PS6, instead of the confusing PS5 Pro.
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