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Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling

$700, and the side by sides look barely different, from my perspective. The chat seemed to have the same opinion.

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  • I already feel like a chump for getting the PS5. There's hardly any games for it. Hell, there are some games I can't play on it. I can't imagine what's changed so drastically in the last couple years to even be worth an upgrade.

    • What can't you play?

      • Some of the transfered PS3 games (Katamari was one I remember). The Tomb Raider Puzzle game glitches (doesn't on the PS4), and it seems any game that uses an app (tried to play a trivia game with the family and it didn't work until we went to the PS4).

        Not anything life or death, big named stuff works fine, but it's just annoying to have to go back to the PS4 to have things play right.

  • This generation is already pretty weak, and it was hard to justify the original PS5 which, after a whopping four years, still has too few exclusive titles to justify the increased price point. Now they are asking for $700 (and they increased the controller's price, too), but there's still too few next gen titles, and it doesn't even come with basic features like a disc tray and a vertical mount. Not even a better form factor, it's the same old ugly case, but somehow bigger.

    The only premium thing about this thing is the price tag. $700 dollars but €800, because apparently they are dominating the European market so much that they don't even have to try to sell it at an honest price point. With all those money you can just buy a PC. I honestly don't think that many people who are interested in the console market (which, historically, has always been a "low budget" entry into modern gaming) would be willing to spend so much money on one.

    I guess we circled back to the PS3 era, when Sony got drunk with overconfidence. Only, this time they'll get away with it because their main competitor is somehow even more incompetent than them. I wonder if the handheld PC market will pose a threat to their dominance in the future - at the moment, it's a very small niche.

    • It's just so sad. I remember back when the PS4 Pro came out and you could trade in your old PS4 for a little on top to get a Pro at GameStop. It was a night and day difference going from a base PS4 to a Pro - and merely for the price of the console, 3 random games off a list of curated games, two controllers, iirc, and 100€. It was straight gas for me.

      Paying 300€ on top - realistically even more because you're not gonna sell a used PS5 for 500€ nowadays - plus the money for a disc drive and a vertical stand would set you back like 900-1000€. Completely out of their minds

  • Sony’s problems are twofold:

    • They are charging an absurd amount of money for a game console
    • They are selling a game console that has practically no first party games for it.

    If they had plenty of the latter, they could weather this. But there are still games releasing for the PS4, and they have had 1, maybe 2 PS5 releases that would qualify as first party this year (that don’t bubble down to PC).

  • The PS5 is already a very powerful piece of hardware that most devs aren't making full use of. I honestly can't see any justification in a hardware upgrade other than some Sony execs thinking it'll be the end of the world if they don't put out something new to make some profit line continue to go up.

  • It's a pity SONY didn't have any games to announce alongside the new console. There is nothing or there I feel like I need more power to play, and I already completed games they demoed, sometimes years ago.

    • Absolutely agree with this statement. They seem to have no pipeline for keeping up with this console lifecycle.

      As the owner of a Series X and PS5, they're just streaming boxes that I occasionally use to play stuff that won't run under Proton.

  • At the beginning of this generation, I planned to buy a used PS5 when the Pro version was coming. I did not know that the PS5 would have almost no games for me (especially because they released the big ones for me on PC), the base PS5 would cost even more, and most people will not upgrade to the Pro because of its absurd pricing (note because it’s not worth it, but because the market for it is likely very niche).

    I guess I will just skip Sony’s platform for this generation.

  • I don’t see the point in this. I’m already planning to get a PC (and a Radeon 7900 XTX will always outperform a PS5), so it’s just more money for no benefit.

  • At this price I’m so glad I decided to go for a slim instead of holding out for the pro. Absolutely no way.

  • This GPU bump is pretty big it's almost a PS6. Keeping the old Zen2 CPU is disappointing though.

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