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?
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…
