Sony announces the $700 PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling
www.theverge.com
The PS5 Pro has better specs for the most demanding games.

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

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      331·
      3 months ago

      Which could play MS and Sony games. I don’t think consoles make much sense nowadays.

      • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
        151·
        3 months ago

        And the best part is you don’t have to pay for online and you won’t need to rebuy your games each new console generation.

        • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
          103·
          3 months ago

          First one I’ll grant you, but there was no rebuying from last gen to current gen for anything non-Nintendo.

          • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
            61·
            3 months ago

            If you pay for the discs, you can’t use the discs on future generations. Right? Ps4 can’t read ps3 or ps2 discs. Xbox one can read xbox and 360 discs, but they limit it to only specific games. So in general, you have to buy it once again on their online store, if its available at all.

            • 60fpsrefugee@lemm.eeEnglish
              22·
              3 months ago

              While pc can play old games, you can sometimes run into compatibility issues. Especially games in the ps1/2/3 era.

              Og Xbox and xbox 360 games work without much issues on Xbox one and series XS. Ps4 and Xbox one games are 99% playable on Series XS and Ps5.

      • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        3 months ago

        It did when the ps5 first came out. $500 for it was a steal back then. I wanted to build a PC at the time but due to the crazy GPU prices and low stock for other parts I decided it was best to wait. Got a ps5 instead (was also hard to get as well) and thought it was absolutely worth the price for the experience it offered. Just built the pc I wanted last fall shortly after prices started dropping. First time ever I made a good choice.

        • Ashtear@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, after that time I really didn’t think consoles would be as much as a midrange PC. And yet, here we are. Feels like Sony’s back to late PS2 era levels of hubris now.

        • anivia@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Even at the time it came out you could have built a pc with an RTX 3060 for that price, which would outperform the PS5 by a big margin and have a way bigger game library

    • PunchingWood@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      Depending on how much you care about visuals, yeah.

      A decent GPU will often be the price of an entire console. That said, even if you go with high-end hardware I found that eventually the cost will make up for itself for not having to pay for PSN to make use of and play on the internet. Or the fact that games are very often priced up to 50% more on the PS store than those on PC because there are no competing stores.

    • where_am_i@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      24·
      3 months ago

      You absolutely will not get anything that runs even remotely decently with ray tracing on in any recent title.

      For the fair comparison you’re only allowed to buy new, not used parts. So, for 700$ you won’t even be able to put together a decent system with a 3070 in it.

      “Oh but i don’t care about ray tracing” – nice copium.

      • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I got a cheaper AMD GPU specifically because I do not give a fuck about ray tracing. Also just look at the steamdeck, you can get great performance for very cheap nowadays. It might not be as powerful or nice as a PS5 Pro, but the $700 computer has many advantages in its favor