Sony announces the $700 PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling
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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.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The side-by-sides are definitely diminished returns compared to earlier gens where hardware bumps had very noticeable gains.

    I am sure the performance is measurably better than the base PS5, but I don’t think it’s $200-plus-separate-disc-drive better.

    I also found the game choices they used for some of these comparisons to be odd picks. Sure you have “Made for PS5” exclusives like the new Ratchet and Clank, Returnal, and Spider-Man 2, but they also heavily showcased:

    • The Last of Us Part 2

    • God of War: Ragnarok

    • Ghost of Tsushima

    • Horizon: Forbidden West

    • Control

    All of those are last-gen games that received PS5 enhancements. Being on a base PS5, I already feel like I am getting the “better” experience compared to the default for those games, so why upgrade?