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Kyuu on 25 July 2023
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Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
Kyuu said:

The real world GPU rasterization performance jump has to be at least 2x over the base model for the Pro to be appealing to a decent percentage (20%+) of the existing PS5 userbase. 1.5x wouldn't cut it. The price hopefully won't exceed $500 (discless) and $600 (with the disc drive).

The "real" PS5 Slim may come out later near the end of 2025 at $300 (discless).

The cost of the APU will be somewhat higher than the base PS5, but will be offset by the lower price of SSD and GDDR6.

This modest upgrade won't cost that much more.

2-2.5x on the GPU alone with faster and more RAM, and slightly or moderately improved CPU could easily translate to over a $100 of price difference. And the new Digital Edition (discless) should sell quite well for what it is because this time buyers will supposedly have the option to get the detachable disk drive separately at a later point. PS5 Pro will sell just fine at a starting $500-$600 pricetag. It'll just be an enthusiast device not targeting very high sales.

Shadow1980 said:

So what's the point? The PS4 Pro and Xbox One X were there to take advantage of 4K TVs. 8K TVs have negligible market penetration, as only super-big and therefore super-expensive TVs make that further resolution upgrade worth it (diminishing returns, and all), plus there isn't really any content being made in 8K.

Unless the PS5 Pro can make any game consistently stay at 60fps at 4K resolution (something that many games still can't achieve) and can do some good quality ray-tracing at either 1080p60 or 4K60, it just doesn't seem worth it.

Many games are already struggling to run at sub 1440p 60 fps. As games become more demanding and make more use of raytracing and advanced tech like UE5's Nanite and Lumen, the workload will at some point be too heavy for the PS5 even at sub 1080p (native).