Playstation 5 Pro

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

What's your thought and opinion regarding PS5 Pro Console?
https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/10/welcome-playstation-5-pro-the-most-visually-impressive-way-to-play-games-on-playstation/comment-page-2/#comment-1905528

[Quint]

I guess the "possibility of PS6 is bigger than PS5 Pro" was a lie.

[A&A]

Really? Still using Zen 2 Renoir (used for APUs) and 16GB RAM?!?!?!
What a scam :D

[vegetablegod]

No value for me. Especially with no disc drive. Wouldn't be able to play my library without buying the digital version of all my games again.

[⛧jakey⛧]

Origineel geplaatst door vegetablegod:

No value for me. Especially with no disc drive. Wouldn't be able to play my library without buying the digital version of all my games again.

You can buy an external disc drive.
Digital is better anyway because physically taking discs in and out is annoying. That's now a thing of the past.

[Tonepoet]

It's lame. I do not have the link at the moment remember watching a video on youtube where people felt rather tepid about buying a Playstation 4 pro with a built-in disc drive for just $100 extra. Now you're charging $200 extra, and taking out the disc drive? Did the Playstation 4 Pro not flop hard enough? I mean, I bought a pro (never used it before I broke it though), but most people wouldn't. You have to remember that the P.S. 4 Pro's performance uplift wasn't for all of the games on the system. It was only for pro enhanced games, and the system even performed marginally worse at the normal games.

Also, the only thing that interests me about console is the fact that you can still own a game on physical media. Sure, you can buy the disc drive accessory to add to the Playstation 5, but those types of accessories have only rarely enjoyed any amount of success on console.

It's not the 1990s anymore. Consoles are not much simpler to use than say Android devices at this point, and haven't been ever since the 7th generation of consoles. so I don't really see that as being a valid justification for buying a console even for somebody of that mindset, especially since the technically inept people probably don't care much about how powerful the hardware is as much as whether or not it can play the latest games. Physical media is the differentiator between console and P.C., so I just can't endorse a console which drops it.

Plus $700 is just about the point where you can buy an entry level pre-built gaming P.C.[www.amazon.com] It might not be a powerful pre-built gaming P.C but a gaming P.C. is going to be an overall more versatile device that isn't locked down.

And those of us here? I'm balking at the notion of spending $700 on what effectively looks like a G.P.U. upgrade that comes with a whole bunch of other unnecessary baggage isn't too appealing.

Those of us interested in dropping that kind of money on a G.P.U. upgrade probably either bought the 4070 ti when it was on clearance, or put a 7900 G.R.E./4070 Super into our systems already for just $600, and are already enjoying a system that'll kick the pants off of the Playstation 5 pro.

However, instead of getting a general uplift in performance for all of their games, because computer games with ultra settings are built to be somewhat future-proofed against the average system, they might only see an uplift in a select few games that are going to release after the pro since most playstation games are built only to accomodate the base spec. model.

Maybe if it had a built in-disc drive and we could expect a general uplift in performance from all of the existing Playstation 5 games, I could understand it a bit better. I mean, I still wouldn't think it was a particularly compelling product, but as things stand? Nah.

[A&A]

Origineel geplaatst door Tonepoet:

Plus $700 is just about the point where you can buy an entry level pre-built gaming P.C.[www.amazon.com] It might not be a powerful pre-built gaming P.C but a gaming P.C. is going to be an overall more versatile device that isn't locked down.

Yep, literally 11% over the price of PS5 Pro, you can get 1440P build, which overall has faster hardware.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mq7Lh3

It is the same thing with the normal version.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

Yep too expensive pc is better after $550 point

[Supafly]

Origineel geplaatst door 𝓙𝓪𝓴𝓮𝔂:

Origineel geplaatst door vegetablegod:

No value for me. Especially with no disc drive. Wouldn't be able to play my library without buying the digital version of all my games again.

You can buy an external disc drive.
Digital is better anyway because physically taking discs in and out is annoying. That's now a thing of the past.

Better = Subjective. Disc version means I can lend my games to friends and family and borrow games from them. If I've purchased a game I didn#t really get on with I can stop plaqying and sell it to recover some of what I paid. Not like I can get a refund on console games when purchased digitally.

For the cost and no version with an included drive = a pass from me.

[andreasaspenberg575]

i did not buy a playstation 5, because i waited for the playstation 5 pro. i will buy the disc version. even though it costs more. the 2 terrabytes SSD means that there is plenty of storage space.

[Supafly]

Origineel geplaatst door andreasaspenberg575:

i did not buy a playstation 5, because i waited for the playstation 5 pro. i will buy the disc version. even though it costs more. the 2 terrabytes SSD means that there is plenty of storage space.

There is no disc version. If you want to use a disk drive with it you'll need to buy the external USB disk drive

[⛧jakey⛧]

As much as they have released more Playstation games for PC, there are still some games exclusive to Playstation that may never see a PC release such as Demon's Souls remake.
I am still salty that Bloodborne never got a PS4 Pro upgrade or PC release.

[Quint]

Origineel geplaatst door 𝓙𝓪𝓴𝓮𝔂:

As much as they have released more Playstation games for PC, there are still some games exclusive to Playstation that may never see a PC release such as Demon's Souls remake.
I am still salty that Bloodborne never got a PS4 Pro upgrade or PC release.

PS4 emulation is progressing rapidly so I say Bloodborne will be fully playable on PC in 1,5 years if things keep going at this speed. Hell, it might be shorter than that.

[󠀡󠀡]

pffft am4/am5

[andreasaspenberg575]

it is a refresh and not a new generation. the bigger SSD helps a lot however. though based on the blog, the disc drive might have to be manually installed. too bad i am living in a backwater country like norway. i might not be able to buy the disc drive in my country.

[UserNotFound]

As I'd expected, the PS5 Pro is a big nothing burger, so glad I'd not bothered to wait for it and had gotten a PS5 (Disc version) just for Stellar Blade. I was told to wait by some in a forum or two I'm a regular at, but felt the performance of the PS5 with regard to Stellar Blade while not stellar (see what I did there?), it was good enough for Stellar Blade, and good enough to tide me over.

I'm a patient man, I'll wait for the PC release of Stellar Blade, then I'd be able to run it with all the bells and whistles.