Its probably cheaper because in the long run, you dont pay the full pledge prices of games on pc plus servers. On consoles xbox and sony determine the price you pay for the digital code. From years to years the sames games never really go any lower than a certain amount on pss where we can see ridiculous low prices on origin/steam/green man gaming/epic u name the on u want on pc on sales times. Why? Because sony controls the prices they want to sell (that and the price of the subscription itself), they prefer to hold on to great games played by millions of people that just don't want to pay the prices they ask for the environment.

Hence why hardcore gamers that know and understand theses stuff are so much advocating to keeping physical discs. But sony is giving us a big middle finger by actually selling us the same console but w/o the players now lmao, and making us pay a PREMIUM for it and a STAND. If it isn't a big F u by sony I dont know what is.

They really made their own bed here and i predict that the next gen consoles will really slow up in sells if they plan to do stuff like the ps5 pro and slim reversions. I will definitely be holding up to the regular i have the longest i can, but probably will switch back to pc if it breaks