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Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's an external drive accessory you can buy from them for about $80.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I personally find it pretty horrendously insulting they put out a "Pro" console that can't play the fucking game discs unless you pay them for an additional accessory.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not a console gamer, but I'm sure they looked at the statistics and saw most players don't buy a physical disk anyway. Why make the machine more expensive for an accessory that probably isn't being used. On my computer I haven't had a physical disk drive in probably 15y and haven't ever thought that I needed one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Well, sure, but that's also because on PC I can choose to buy DRM-free games and have guaranteed backwards compatibility for the foreseeable future. Plus it's not a closed system based on a console that launched with a drive. People (me included) already own PS5 discs, not from a previous generation, but from this one. It's bad enough that I need to keep my PS3 around to play PS3 games, it'd be absurd to not be able to play PS5 games I already own because the thing is physically unable to ingest them out of the box.

So yeah, for people in that position the Pro is a hundred bucks more expensive than it says on the sticker, which is already a ridiculously high number.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, ok then. Guess who didn't read the article. :-)