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SvennoJ 6 days ago
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Eurogamer's take on the pro

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-ps5-pro-value-dilemma-is-a-release-from-fomo-all-youre-getting-here

I'll leave you with a few closing thoughts. If, like me, you are someone who overthinks things, chances are you will spend considerable time pondering a PS5 Pro purchase. You'll be playing next year's graphical powerhouse from Sony and resenting all those Pro owners who are playing the same game, just a bit better. You'll slowly grow to hate these people and potentially lose long-standing friendships. These kinds of thoughts eat into my free time and stop me enjoying things. Remember that rambling part of the intro where I went on about tweets? That's it. That's the PS5 Pro. If you are the kind of person who cares about such a console, it's for you. As I think Margaret Wolff Hungerford famously said, value is in the eye of the card holder. If you can buy a PS5 Pro, I don't think you'll regret it over the remainder of the PS5's time as Sony's main platform. If not, own-brand coke is fine... I promise.

To start of, what the F happened to that place.

Anyway fomo is the last thing on my mind with the pro, but of course I always knew I was going to buy one. I can say I bought the Series X out of fomo, then there was nothing to miss out on lol. (oh well, dedicated 4K blu-ray player in a nice looking Halo themed mini tower)

What the Pro has done so far is reignite my passion for gaming. Just like getting a new GPU, trying out older games to see how much better they run and getting sucked up in their worlds again. Made possible by the 2TB of internal storage. (Sure I could add an SSD to the base PS5, but pro has it all in one, quieter, faster, more storage capacity)

I'm going every night again, playing flat games again. Playing at 60fps is actually much nicer when the picture quality is great already.

Maybe it's because I'm older now, yet buyer's remorse, which I always had, not this time.

But if you have something better to spend $700 on, it's just a luxury item, base ps5 is perfectly fine and will remain the target console as I don't expect the pro to sell all that much and just like the PS4 Pro, just increasing resolution/fps beyond points you don't really need to fully enjoy games. It's a GPU upgrade, that's all it is.