the PS5 Pro is expensive, man

intro okay two things to talk about this week the first one is the obvious one it's the one that people are still yelling about in the world of gaming news it's PS5 Pro talk the PS5 Pro the PS5 pro has officially been announced guess what the gra it's got better graphics the big thing is the GPU it's 67% larger that GPU has a 28% faster memory within it faster and more easily implemented array tracing and a PlayStation version of like you know artificial or rather machine learning upscaling uh like dlss or FSR something like that the PS version is called pssr which that will probably make a difference for games the elevator pitch I thought made sense where it's like hey players are choosing between performance mode or Fidelity mode and it seems like they're choosing performance mode most of the time I know I usually am so their idea was to kind of tackle that combat that and have games with higher frame rates that also don't have to look muddy and drop the resolution thanks to all these clever tricks I think my thing really with this announcement this presentation was that ultimately it wasn't that exciting like I want to get excit like to buy something I want to get excited about it and they don't feel really that excited about it it almost felt more of like an obligation more than anything it's not the teex stuff the technical jargon I can get down with it's just the fact that there's nothing too enticing about it like when you look at the side-by-side comparisons that they show yes frame rate differences are good those are very good and I think those are going to make a difference but that little bit of difference in Fidelity is hard to see in compressed YouTube videos along with that they showed updates on existing games which is fine but like some of those games are just ports of games from the PlayStation 4 showcasing that still this generation this Xbox series X PS5 generation has been a bit of a strange one with an event like this I thought what could have really helped it was like you know something cool a big new game or a tease of a game or an update on like a a game that looks really significant or maybe like a DLC or an expansion coming to a game that's going to take advantage of these features nothing really like that at all at least we know now that it's coming and it's coming November uh 7th with pre-orders starting September 26th but this is where things get really crazy because that stuff aside for some people that's a a negligible upgrade you know some people really love counting the frames counting the resolution and they're going to want the best of the best no matter what right but where it gets a little bit more complicated is the price it is $700 in the United States but it is also 700 lb it is €800 which means that people are getting nailed even more outside of the United States if my math is correct plus that aside so $700 right in the US I knew this thing was going to be expensive the PlayStation 5 if you were to just buy it today it's like 500 bucks if you were to try to go to Walmart to get one but man 700 bucks is sticker shock coupled with the fact that and you've probably heard this you've probably also already bitched about this uh the fact that the stand that it is advertised with the vertical stand is sold separately as well as a disc drive which is significant portion of the player base has probably at least some physical games meaning you're going to have to pay an additional fee just to be able to access those games so you're looking at well over $700 possibly and that is tough sell for a lot of people gaming is one of the more expensive hobbies and it's just getting more expensive I did make this as a point in in the game ranks video that we put out but you know last time around with the PS4 Pro that was a really really long console generation and it felt like it kind of really needed something also the base PS4 prices had been dropping here the PS5 itself is still Rock Solid from a price standpoint and it seems like for a lot of people it's rock solid for just doing what they want and playing their games I will admit that every once in a while I fire up a game on PlayStation 5 and I'm like why is the frame rate not as good as it should be like this this sucks like it's already like the age is showing in places but it's really still so kind of 5050 wishy-washy and depending on what game you play that I think it's going to be a tough sell for a lot of consumers me personally I will be completely honest with you guys and I know some of you out there feel the same I am a degenerate I always have been with gaming stuff with gaming Hardware with Hardware in general I've always been a first adopter like it's just what I do to the detriment of my my wallet my bank account my credit score it's not a good place to be and I am one of the people that like yes like I love playing games and I want to play them the best they can possibly be so if this gives me that little bit of an edge and it makes my games a little bit better I will go for it but begrudgingly at $700 it's tough there's also the whole other thing which is like 700 bucks is is now getting into the range of PC gaming territory at least somewhat like smaller level builds but still there are a lot of people chomping at the bit to get into that realm when the steam deck dropped the amount of people I had messaged me that were just like hey uh I want to get a steam deck I I'm new to PC gaming what do I do the amount of people that jumped on a steam deck because that was affordable just to get a taste of PC gaming means that there are people out there that really want this and now I think with some people being F maybe even some people who were waiting to buy a PS5 maybe waiting for this Pro to drop now they're looking at that $700 price tag and thinking maybe a PC is a little bit more realistic I will say as somebody who has been a PC Gamer for a long time and has had and built multiple PCS yes I do look at this and say man I do just have my PC which kicks ass but everybody's financial situation is different and in some countries PC Hardware PC products PC components aren't as easily accessible at a good price so some people their only choice is consoles I think it's just really interesting to see if those people who their only choice is consoles is this enticing enough for them to really double down on it there are the people of course like the Sony loyalists the people who have been so in invested in this ecosystem for so long that I think are going to get it regardless but I'm really curious to see how the numbers shake out about this one because like yes I am not too excited about the PS5 Pro a lot of people think Sony is being really really what's the word Daft [ __ ] [ __ ] uh for charging more for the disc drive the stand stuff like that leaving a bad taste in players mouth so I'm curious to see with a lot of people being outspoken about not being into this I'm curious to see what the actual sales numbers will be just today the the Standalone disc drive that you would have to buy separately for this unit uh which is compatible right now with the newer redesigned PS5 that dropped like a couple months back that is already for sale it's been for sale and they have sold out so I wonder very much if that is something that scalpers are getting on getting ahead of things or players that want this console and they're jumping on this thing I I have no way of knowing but that's what I'm curious to see are the scalpers going to go for this thing since PS5 it's pretty much been like a scalper fever thing and it seems like it's been a thing with every PlayStation device like the PlayStation portal the PlayStation portal I will say was another thing that a lot of people heard about and was like I don't really need that I don't really want that that's all it does right reviews were okay I wasn't like super impressed with it at first like it was fine it was well made just not really for my use case yet the thing sold like hot cakes it sold out everywhere it was definitely some scalper activity but also it seemed like there still ended up being a need for people people really wanted this thing despite looking at the internet and it seems like nobody wants it so again I'm not like defending Sony or anything I'm just curious to see how this shakes out with the amount of people that are like nah this is a ripoff I don't want this people like me also like other people out there are degenerates so I'm I'm curious I don't think this is the right move I think for me like if I was Sony and again I'm not a tech person I am not like meeting with developers learning about how they're working on games right but I would still wait on this I think for a lot of reasons the stuff we complained about previously but also the fact that some people are only just still getting their hands on PlayStation 5 it feels like PlayStation 5 as a platform is only finally really getting its footing so to ER drop a pro I know it's been a couple of years and that time has flown by but I don't know I I still just don't think the timing is quite right here I don't know let me know what you guys think though but like GTA6 and the inevitable delay I said I want to talk about two things this is like a news show I usually do every Wednesday unless I have like a review or something where I just talk about two news stories I find interesting you know something that to chew into other than the game ranks Friday news show where I deliver all the news here I just like to narrow it down to a couple of topics and the other thing I did want to highlight is the GTA 6 Kur fuffle that went on this week you probably saw headlines of a rumor cir circulating around that Grand Theft Auto 6 had been delayed uh this had been suggested uh by some folks online a rumor circulating that was uh the the Rockstar stated fall 2025 release window had moved it had been pushed to early to mid 2026 leading to tons of people freaking out while that picked up very quickly like over the weekend the beginning of the week uh Jason shrier uh journalist at Bloomberg did take to the internet to confirm good news is that six Rockstar employees all told me that they have not heard of any delay bad news it is a big ambitious game and could very well slip uh slip too much time left to say anything definitive I want to be clear six staff told me they weren't informed of a delay for all I know Rockstar's executive team could have decided months ago to J to delay GTA 6 without telling the company but the lack of internal announcement suggests that the Twitter rumor was nonsense another week another Grand Theft Auto 6 rumor but I wanted to talk about this one a little bit because does anyone else out there feel like desensitized to this I don't know if it's just years and years and years of being a video game fan and seeing game delays or even the last couple of years seeing even more delays that I've just been so desensitized to Grand Theft Auto 6 I know we got a trailer for it right and it is going to be one of the biggest game releases ever but to me it still just doesn't really feel like it's real it feels like it's such a far off thing that I don't care if it was delayed tomorrow fine whatever I think there's a possibility it's still very well could that is literally me just like going by feel and I know like it gets the headlines and people are like comment oh my God great thought delay holy [ __ ] what are we going to do you know but I really am like totally fine with it when I saw it drop I was like okay whatever there's plenty of other things to play I do think this is interesting if it does move or if it does shift or if it more rumors pop up that it does really seem like it's being delayed uh I don't think people realize how much of the industry is waiting in the wings just paused ready waiting to see when Grand Theft auto6 will release I have heard that Publishers have been actually holding back on game releases things that they know will be ready around that time but holding back really announcing or showing them at all because they want a significant buffer window uh to release separately from GTA 6 this has been a thing it was a thing with Grand Theft Auto 5 Publishers were concerned about releasing their game near it I think it also kind of happened with that Red Dead Redemption 2 but Grand Theft Auto 6 now is like on another level with that so I am very curious to see how the release schedule how the release slate shapes around when Grand Theft Auto's definitive release date drops because like I said to me it feels and I've heard it like that a lot of Publishers are just waiting so it really almost scks like if Grand Theft Auto 6 kind of ends up in a little bit of a release Purgatory for a little while uh it could delay other games it could confuse or muddle other release schedules so I'm just curious to see what the real deal is with this thing is I hope it gets a concrete release date nailed down soon but I would love for that release dat to actually be a solid one that doesn't move but you never know it's the video game industry it's the Video Game World stuff gets delayed all the time constantly it is like a fact of life in this world so there you have it two news BONUS: Beetlejuice things I wanted to talk about in the gaming world but I I do have a bonus thing I usually tend to throw in something that people wouldn't click on or care as much about but I am a this is weird to say out loud but I'm like a big like a DieHard Beetle juu fan I love the original movie it is absolutely perfect to me in every way loved it since a I was a child Lov the cartoon all that uh and I saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice the new sequel the legacy sequel this whole thing man I am so cynical to this at this point and I did not have high hopes for Beetle Juice Beetle Juice and after seeing it my reaction is yeah that was a good time that was fun it felt like the people making it gave a [ __ ] it wasn't the greatest movie in the world but I had a good time at the movies now to a lot of people that's not good enough and usually for me yeah it's not and I I don't know with this one I think it's interesting to talk about because it was seeing a lot of the people really enjoying what they were doing Tim Burton making a movie that just kind of felt like a normal movie and not like a big [ __ ] Dumbo thing like he's done in the past that part was really refreshing it had some new ideas it had some interesting stuff it had a lot of weird plot threads going on but a couple of moments really really made me laugh Katherine aara was the standout I know like she's she's like the darling of the comedy World in a lot of ways and for me for classic movies and stuff but here I thought she was funnier than Michael Keaton I think Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice here was still good and he's clearly having a lot of fun but where the old Beetle juu was all over the place and up and down and doing a thousand voices this Beetlejuice to me just felt kind of like hey just one note just very grumbly Beetlejuice still good still funny still disgusting still perverted so while I say like yeah it was all right I had fun you know that's not like the most exciting glowing review I do think it has better staying power than a lot of the other Legacy sequels that have come and gone the amount of things that have been revived and brought back and we brought back an old person and then you forget about it instantly like a new Terminator movie that brought back like Sarah Connor or whoever or the Hocus Pocus movie that came out a few years ago the sequel to Hocus Pocus that I watched and then instantly completely forgot what I saw I don't think I'm going to forget Beetlejuice Beetlejuice quite as fast as I did with everything else I think it had some moments that were really great and some moments that really made me laugh so a lot of callbacks to the original but a lot of unique moments that like took the Beetlejuice concept and kind of ran with it and kind of had fun Jenna Ortega who I've never seen in anything else before I know she's like the the big new thing uh I thought she was pretty good I really liked her Arc that she had with like a love interest it just really really worked for me it was Charming it was nice it had some surprises and it just flowed really well also the movie just had like incredible set design with a lot of physical stuff yes but like the the underworld regions and like the offices and stuff being real actual places uh to the town that they shot in to the set decoration of these streets at night on Halloween absolutely The Vibes were there for me I was really really excited and happy to see the movie take place on Halloween my nitpick I know this might be an obvious or like a basic one but I have a bit more to it uh Gina Davis and Alec Baldwin not being in the movie I found them to be the heart and soul of the original Beetlejuice it was their story it was Lydia's story as well but I don't know for them to not be here and quickly kind of washed away with like a quick line like a that didn't really work for me specifically because I found like I maybe I've probably watched Beetlejuice way too many times but and I'm I'm sorry I'm going on a long thing here but I I really really found the original ending the the ending of the original Beetle Juice to be a really really special and nice thing it is just such a lovely good feeling you get after this movie to see Lydia come home from school with her Newfound family and dancing with the and the music the Harry bellante song comes on but also this interesting compromise with the house with how the deas live upstairs the maand live downstairs so part of the story of the original Beetle Juice that I think is really underrated and stick with me here I'm going to come back around is is the fact that like it's a story about a family and a house and their life the maand were just two single people that loved their house they took care of their house they loved each other very simple very Charming classic thing and then the whole idea of the story is them dying and like seeing your legacy your past your home being overwritten being painted over the Deets is coming in with a completely different style and destroying the character and the beauty of this old classic house right so to see all the resolution at the end of Beetlejuice but also to see the maand kind of get their house back that was a good feeling that's a nice feeling I like that home is literally where the heart is and I think that movie really did a lot for those types of feelings and in understated ways and in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice that kind of all is like out the window none of it matters the maitlands are gone the deas have the house again and it's painted weird colors and it's dark and it has lost all of its character which to me like you know you can just ignore this movie it it doesn't like undo the ending of the original but like it does I don't know it just it just left kind of like a bummer feeling for me but again I'm coming from like a very specific thing that I loved about the first Beetlejuice so maybe that's my problem but it was just an observation I wanted to point out maybe I thought some of you guys would find that interesting still everything else kther and roara really legitimately made me like gut bust laugh a couple of times I love that uh William defo actually kind of goofy and having fun Monica beluchi is gorgeous I've had a crush on her since I was a kid absolutely love just seeing her exist here some of the visual effects some of the more practical effects really cool to see it didn't all land some of beetlejuice's jokes felt completely flat with me where in the first one I thought he was 100% bang on crushed murdered so yeah beetle juu beetle juice it is a thing I just wanted to Yap about it for a second because this is like my only opportunity to really talk about Beetlejuice a movie I love so much and while I'm glad this movie isn't a disaster it was a fun entertaining time at the movies sure I'm glad that either way I whether it was good or bad I will always have the original and I'm grateful for that but come on what did I scare you sorry either way though I I definitely want to know what you guys think so let me know in the comments the PlayStation 5 Pro stuff obviously I want to hear your heated opinions on that let me know what you think with Grand Theft Auto 6 and and like my abstract like does any of this matter are you are you with me on that are you desensitized to game delays at this point and Beetlejuice let's talk about Beetlejuice I don't know let me know let's talk about this stuff if you like what I'm trying to do here I'm talking about the news but I'm ultimately talking about stuff I like stuff I find interesting clicking the like button does help thank you 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