Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7

Post by JohnBooty » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

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Consoles have always won on the "time investment :: game playing capability" metric. Sure, it's possible to be savvy with your time and money and build a PC that is better than a PS5 Pro for less money - but learning how to do that will take a lot of time and focus. If you already know how to do that it's a sunk cost and you probably already have a huge steam library anyway. On the flip side, if you can't build such…

I highly doubt you can build a PC that performs better in games than the PS5 Pro for $700. That is a very low price when a $300 RTX 4060 will be a slower GPU than what the PS5 Pro will have. Not to mention that consoles generally are more efficient, and have better visuals at a given compute level, than running games in a general-purpose OS.

    With PS5 Pro, we are upgrading to a GPU that 
    has 67% more Compute Units than the current PS5 
    console and 28% faster memory. Overall, this 
    enables up to 45% faster rendering for gameplay, 
    making the experience much smoother.

    iBUYPOWER TraceMesh Gaming Desktop: 
    i7-13700F, RTX 4060, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD 
    $899

    CyberPowerPC Desktop: i5 14400F, 
    32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, RTX 4060 
    $850

Post by rtkwe » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 7:49 PM UTC

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Interesting that Sony considers a Blu-Ray drive to no longer be a key feature of the flagship console model. They’re probably not wrong, given the long slow decline in importance of optical media. Feels like the beginning of the end when even Blu-Ray’s primary creator is walking away.

Sony & MS aided in the decline of discs by making a disc drive an expensive add on and having every game need an online connection or day one update to fix bugs. I'm sure they had a marketing plan of making $90 bucks off a $10 buck disc drive and then go "oh wow, look, only 30% of people spent an extra $100 bucks!"

Post by talldayo » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 8:22 PM UTC

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Pretty much the sole game worth buying a Sony console for (Bloodborne) is playable from end-to-end with PC emulation, even on Steam Deck: https://youtu.be/ItnC4GnHfa0 Especially for Sony, there simply aren't any worthwhile exclusive titles they're putting out. The good/big releases get published on PC now, and the obscure/fandom related stuff like Persona and Senran Kagura bled out of Sony platforms almost immediatel…

Lots of games still come out broken on PC to the point where it’s a worse experience, like UE4 games having shader compilation stutter.

Post by Narishma » Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 9:14 PM UTC

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When I was growing up, I never imagined the dongle future we live in.

Did you forget about the 32x and the Mega CD? We're back in the golden age of the Sega Genesis.

Post by amlib » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 6:33 AM UTC

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PCs are a lot more hassle if you just want to chill and play games. Not such a big deal if you’re using the computer for other stuff, but a 2nd living room PC just never made sense to me.

I used to have an Xbox Series X and a gaming Pc. I completely agree with this. PC gaming usually means more freedom but also more responsibility: - Windows wants to update random stuff all the time - Other person can't hear me. 5 different software apps want to install their own audio mixer apps - Game overlay bars - Steam, Epic Games, Windows, Nvidia, all have in-game overlay bars that have to be disabled - Drivers,…