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The PlayStation 5 Pro just fucked the future of gaming

Retailing for an eye-watering £700 at launch, the PlayStation 5 Pro has fans of console gaming concerned that next gen hardware will completely price us out. Has the market just been ruined?

Thred Media
3 min readSep 17, 2024

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How do you appease lifelong PlayStation fans becoming disillusioned by a lack of exciting new IPs and exclusives? By releasing a mid-gen console for £700, apparently.

The PlayStation 5 Pro is slated for release in early November. As its name suggests, it will deliver an upgraded performance on the regular PlayStation 5 while Sony devs continue to plot for the next generation of console behind the scenes — probably in Q4 of 2027.

In a pre-recorded presentation, company lead Mark Cerny laid out what new features fans can expect from the Pro. The ‘Big Three’ tenets he boasted included a larger GPU, advanced raytracing, and AI-driven upscaling — the latter technically being the only new feature beyond expanding the speed and processing power of the PlayStation 5.

Nonetheless, with a mid-gen console that is a perfectly acceptable buffet. In the same way the Xbox One X provided a notably smoother experience than the standard Xbox One, the appeal of running AAA games…

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