Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro officially today on YouTube during a tech reveal. It pretty much offers what leakers revealed weeks and months ago already. It is a system that is more powerful than the regular PlayStation 5 and supports AI upscaling.
I have to admit that I had plans to buy it. I’m not a huge gamer anymore, but I like to play from time to time. I did own a PS5 in the past, but sold it as I ran out of games to play.
The PS5 Pro would have been a good replacement, but the price is so far off that I won’t buy it. Here are the details:
- Base PlayStation 5 Pro costs $699, £699 or €799. No disc drive, no vertical stand, but 2TB of storage, fully compatible with hardware, games and accessories.
- Disc drive costs extra $79 in the US. In the EU, it costs €119.99.
- Vertical stand is an extra $29 in the US. In the EU, it costs €29.99.
If you want a full PS5 with disc drive and stand, you end up with $800 in the US and almost €950 in the EU. That is without any games.
You can buy a good gaming PC for that money that plays more games and does a lot of other things that the PS5 Pro does not support.
Here is the presentation video, in case you are interested.
Maybe the price will come down eventually, but for now, it is one hell of an expensive console to buy.
Are you a gamer? What is your take on the price of the PS5 Pro? Feel free to leave a comment down below.
I used to play Novalogic’s Delta Force series online as a member of a ‘squad’ and we used to have competitions with other squads which used to be a bit of a laugh. But then Novalogic went bust and Crytek’s Crysis series became all the rage. The graphics in that game were amazing and clearly demonstrated what could be done with DirectX 9 even back then. Since then though I haven’t played much of anything because of the system requirements of today’s games which I can’t afford anymore.
But even early Sony Playstations were also outside my budget unfortunately. Pay €799 now? No way!
But Sony was planning to put ads in Playstation games back in 2022 so maybe they didn’t succeed and that accounts for the price jump now.
A “good” GPU alone will run you $600+ US.
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You can not get the visual performance that console will provide on a PC for less money.
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Note: I’m a PC gamer, I would not buy a console.
These are for the people who want to play games but have no technical skills to set up and operate a gaming computer. In other words: older rich casual crowd and diehard PlayStation enthusiasts. For them, it is great price.
Also remember, Samsung sells relatively closely spec phones at multiple tier prices. PlayStation just jumped on this bandwagon.