I feel like I'm missing something - how is Sony able to sell this for so cheap considering how good the specs seem to be?
The GPU looks perhaps about on par with something like the RTX 2060 which is $350 on its own. Looking briefly online, a mid-tier pre built PCs with similar specs (this GPU, 8-core CPU, 16GB RAM, fast NVME drive) like this Dell XPS costs $1350 [0]. Granted the CPU on the PS5 is probably worse than on that machine, but it's still pretty solid at a 3.5Ghz Zen2.
Not to mention if you you wanted a Mac with similar specs, you really can't compare directly because they don't sell a consumer desktop machine, but you could easily pay $3000 for an iMac with similar specs (plus the screen obviously).
The GPU looks perhaps about on par with something like the RTX 2060 which is $350 on its own. Looking briefly online, a mid-tier pre built PCs with similar specs (this GPU, 8-core CPU, 16GB RAM, fast NVME drive) like this Dell XPS costs $1350 [0]. Granted the CPU on the PS5 is probably worse than on that machine, but it's still pretty solid at a 3.5Ghz Zen2.
Not to mention if you you wanted a Mac with similar specs, you really can't compare directly because they don't sell a consumer desktop machine, but you could easily pay $3000 for an iMac with similar specs (plus the screen obviously).
[0] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/xps-deskto...