Yea those Atreus sections were brutal. Even when you got to play as him his combat is horrible. Not a huge issue for me though I was never that huge of a fan of these GOW games. I do think they are good games but I don't freakout whenever a new one comes out. I just say cool and wait for a $30 price range.

I do want to go back and try that rougelike mode they added since it does add more story and I do enjoy the combat.

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.

Yeah, that's a weird review. Personally I'd have buyers remorse even if the PRO was a vast upgrade, I'd simply focus on spending 890 euro and I'd feel bad, same thing happened to me with a TV after finding out lower cost mide range TV's are so advanced now that there is such a small difference. 

Alas, I'm probably poorer than you. 

Based on poll results, the PS5 PRO's reception is...

Buyer's remorse didn't go away after I got a windfall from work, I guess it fades with age. I'm 50. Or maybe the amount shifts over time as big ticket items for me nowadays are new appliances, new roof, new car, new laptop. New car coming up some day, our car is 13 years old now. Yet every time I look at prices I run away lol.

And yes I also have a CAD 2500 TV that is likely outperformed now by a CAD 1000 model. Heck my 52" 1080p LCD TV was CAD 3,500 in 2007.

The trick is not to keep looking after you buy! Just accept it, drive a new car of the lot, it lost half its price in value already. Buy a TV, there will be a better/equal one for less within a month lol.

Anyway the pro isn't useless, it works quite well as a space heater! It's nice and warm in front of the TV haha.

I guess I'm less financially stable than you so my guilt is justified but there are things I don't regret like PSVR and PS4 PRO to use it or the new PS5 others such as The Quest 2 are painful to think about.

You're a better man than me if you can make yourself feel good about spending on tech that turns out to be useless or becomes useless. 

And alas, at least the heat is coming out of it and not pooling inside like in the ps4 making so loud running the fans you couldn't hear the TV sometimes.

@OP Aside from Dragons Dogma and FF7 Rebirth in side by side comparisons, I have yet to see noticable upgrades at a glance improvements. It's easier to say the RT but even that just looks like a contrast boost if you're not around a mirror or water. 

The main difference is getting to play at this quality in 60fps. Yet from screenshots I doubt you see much difference with 30fps fidelity mode on base PS5









I keep getting distracted by how good it looks. This is what I was looking for from a current gen game. But it's annoying it costs $700 to play at 60fps with visuals as intended, or to justify having a 65" 4K TV without feeling 1080p60 would be good enough anyway.

So I guess it removes some buyers remorse from the TV lol. (Which is HDMI 2.0 and was already outdated at the start of the gen lol)

eh...i dont like this poll lol. PS5 Pro might be a waste of money for me (b/c my TV doesn't even support 4k & I'm already happy with NSW graphics), but that doesn't mean that, as a product, it is objectively a waste of money. There def is some value in this product, specificially from the subsect of gamers (likely on PC) who are looking no longer to wait for the PC in order to play with strong graphics. For them, I'd imagine this is a dream product! (I can save myself over a year of waiting for every PlayStation game AND avoid the headache of setting everything up on my PC for only $700? Sounds good!)

Sub 1080p base resolution shouldn't happen in 2024...

Alan Wake 2 (847p), Silent Hill 2 (864p), Dragon Age The Veilguard (835p) and Jedi Survivor (864p) all have image instability issues in their Performance modes with PSSR.

Silent Hill 2, a ps2 game, at 864p on PS5 Pro? Wtf. The screenshots don't look all that impressive until you check out the ones with the fog removed. I guess it's not optimized much.