Several people seem to be forgetting an important point... I keep seeing the price comparison made between P4 -> P5 and complaints that the price nearly doubled. But since it appears that the Pro Pack got bundled in (along with the host of new features), they really only raised the price from ~$400 (between $380 and about $420, depending on when and how you bought Pro Pack) to $550. So from CL's point of view at least, a $130-$170 bump in price is pretty reasonable for the new version. (and the only "$250 upgrade price" mentioned so far is pure speculation... we don't know the upgrade prices yet) Of course many will argue (justifiably so) that they don't need Pro Pack features, but it doesn't sound like (at this point) there will be any option for a lower-end product. That does suck about non-US price trends though... I sure hope it doesn't turn out as bad as it has for you folks in the past. As for me, I don't own Pro Pack yet and I'm on a shoe-string budget (and need new hardware), so it will be some time before I could upgrade to P5... I'm not happy about it, but I just don't see anything inconsistent with the announced P5 pricing (ie. I'd love to see an upgrade for $100 from P4 - but it ain't gonna happen).

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