The PlayStation 5 costs 399. Now that we have pretty much all the information we need on both the ps5 as well as the Xbox series x and s let's take a look because there is a lot to go through here so the big one of the course is the price point so if you're purchasing a PlayStation 5 on November 12th which is coincidentally only two days after the Xbox series s and x go on sale then you will have two options now.
If you want the standard vanilla PlayStation 5 with an optical disk drive that will run you 499 the same price of course as the Xbox series x however if you want to go and drop that optical disk drive and go for the digital edition of the ps5 you'll be able to save a full 100 and pick it up for 399 bucks now. I don't think I need to tell you that is a very aggressive price point there were tons of rumours beforehand that they were having issues trying to get their price down to where they needed but after last week we saw Microsoft put their cards on the table and show off that very aggressive price point for specifically, that Xbox series s.
I think this is really sony trying to kind of mute them in the middle now between the ps5 and the digital edition for 100 of the difference. We know you just lose the optical disk drive now there may be other changes but as far as we know there's no spec difference or anything like that and that is in key contrast to what Microsoft has done with the Xbox series s so when you look at the PS5 versus the Xbox series x they're actually very equivalent right the exact same price you have an optical disk drive. You have a little bit more power on the Xbox side but they're pretty similar when you compare the PS5 digital edition to the Xbox series s. They are very very different so if you've read our article on the Xbox series s you'll know a lot of this but essentially this is a console which will run the same games right so you'll be able to play all the Xbox series x games as well as a lot of the older like Xbox one titles and whatnot if you download them but the difference is it is targeting a much lower resolution somewhere between 1080p and 1440p.
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Now on the PlayStation 5 digital edition side that should have none of these limitations so essentially it is a full ps5 just without the ability for you to buy and insert your physical game discs now, of course, that might be a downside for some but considering that you're saving a hundred dollars and able to still play games at like 4k and 120 fps and whatever it is that the main console can run. I think that is an incredibly impressive price point I mean let's not forget well yes a hundred dollars seems like oh yeah I guess it makes sense when you look at the blu-ray drive but realistically sony Microsoft probably are able to buy those blu-ray drives for 20 maybe 25 each which mean that sony is losing leaving a ton of profit on the table when you buy that PS5 digital edition compared to the physical.
Now there are a lot of reasons for that I mean we'll talk a little bit about PlayStation plus and some of the games that they're bringing out but make that money up by taking all of that profit from buying those digital games because let's not forgotten when you buy a physical game say it's 60 some of the money goes to the game shop or the best buy or whatever the store you're buying it from whereas when you buy a digital game sony's making that sweet sweet money well and Microsoft too. Now based on the event today it's clear that they don't have a ton of launch titles as does the Xbox I mean it's looking pretty light on that front across the board but sony does have a few things such as the PlayStation plus collection which will give you a large variety of games that will be essentially available.
If you're a PlayStation plus subscriber on day one now to be fair these are all PlayStation 4 games so things like fallout 4 infamous last of us. I mean there's actually a pretty good selection but if you're a PlayStation player you're probably already going to own a few of these but that being said it's actually really nice this is going to be included at day one so you'll at least have something to play on your PS5.
Now we do have some new announcements so we do have a date on spiderman miles morales which they just said holiday I assume that means it's actually going to be available for launch but this is going to be a game that is including not only the remastered version of the original spider-man but also the quasi-expansion pack the miles morales actual game itself all included for 50 bucks but this actually are also coming to PS4 something that they've definitely been waffling on in the past there are several other games that will be available for launch so black ops cold war will be available for ps5 as well as I'm sure series x they did show some gameplay of it and it looked good although some of the things like if you look at this box here looked a little bit last gen to me with a sprinkling of ray tracing on top there's also a very brief trailer for fortnite which surprise surprise. I mean it's not on the iPhone anymore so they might as well put it on the PS5 and there are a few other games that will be available for launch including demon souls and actually one of the things with demon souls is they did a really good job of showing just how fast those load times were I mean they would be warping between levels and it was pretty much instant which is a good example of what that SSD inside the PS5 can really do another game that really jumped out to me is hogwarts legacy which has been leaked for quite a while now.
We finally have that official confirmation this is a game that does seem like it will be available across the board but most of the titles we saw today are console exclusive to the PS5 meaning that they'll also be available on pc in fact the very first trailer we saw final fantasy actually had a big disclaimer saying played on pc roughly PS5 spec and they were immediately like oh, by the way, all these other games are definitely running on PS5 but that is something interesting we didn't really see a lot of brand new games today so I think they had already a couple months ago or last month has shown a lot of the games they had and a lot of the games that they do have coming to PS5 are also available on pc which is a little bit of a divergence from what we've seen in the past so there have been a lot of rumours about the PS5 specifically when it comes to how many of the units will actually be available for sale when it goes well on sale so some of this I think is always just part of the background noise right.
I mean there's like oh they're going to be making fewer consoles oh they're going to be making more there are actually a couple of rumours recently that they were having as high as a 50 sort of failure rate on the yields for their soc which I can kind of believe there might be some truth there because if you look at what the PS5 has inside it has a smaller chip and specifically a smaller GPU than something like the series x but they're running it at really aggressive clock speeds and the thing is so in the pc space if you design a core i7 or whatever the case is if you design a chip you can easily take advantage of every single little bin along the way right so a core i7 it might not be quite powerful enough to sort of qualify at that whatever clock speed they can just sell it as a core i5 turn the speed down. it'll be just fine when it comes to something like a console there's not a secondary thing right I mean if they can't get that full use out of the chip it goes straight in the garbage which makes sense if they're pushing it to like 2.2 gigahertz or whatever that they may have some yield issues but all that being said sony did come out and basically, say no it's fine.
we have plenty of PlayStation 5's everything is on track and in the schedule which we'll see how that actually goes now of course there's another aspect to this which is the variable frequency now again this is something that I've talked about before and it's not something necessarily new for the pc space or specifically the mobile space but in a nutshell the PlayStation 5 does not run at a standard clock speed so typically speaking one of the advantages of a console is that it will run exactly the same no matter how hot it is outside whatever the case is you get a guaranteed level of performance and as a developer you can really optimize games to get the absolute most out of that performance. Now with the ps5, they've opted to go for a variable boost frequency which can go up to 2.23 gigahertz on the GPU and can go up to a little over 10 teraflops of overall performance and while that's great it seems like they might be pushing the envelope just a little bit and I know that there have been some rumours about some developers having some issues getting that high level of performance and not having frame drops right because if you've ever played a game on your phone you'll probably know that it runs great for the first five minutes and then as it starts to heat up your clock speeds come down and you lose performance.
Same on pc right if you start running into any kind of throttling issues that 60fps experience might drop to 45 or 50. now all of that being said we won't know until we actually really get our hands-on PS5 units and specifically actually try them in like what happens if it's in a cabinet without great airflow also do you lose 20 of your performance whatever the case is but it is something to keep in mind they are pushing this chip and therefore the ps5 very very hard which means that there is some potential for variability with your actual performance all of this really does come down to that 399 price point now in no scenario was the PlayStation 5 ever going to be a slow seller right I mean this is the next-gen PlayStation the ps4 did incredibly well a lot of people are ready to upgrade that being said though I have real concerns about how easy it's going to be to actually, get your hands on one of these four dollars.
I think is a great price point and for I would say the majority of people the digital edition is the one to buy on the Xbox side I think it's a little bit more of a complicated decision-based on how much you care about the performance how much you want to save the money et cetera et cetera but on the ps5 side it's a little bit more straightforward unless you really do want those physical discs and if you do fair play but unless that's a hugely important thing to you saving the extra hundred dollars with essentially no other downsides I think is an absolute no-brainer so thank you very much for watching make sure to subscribe to the channel for lots more ps5 and Xbox content coming up soon and I am going to go try to get my hands on a PS5 soon.
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