PS5 PRO Is $700...WHAT THE HELL SONY?

[Music] Sony has officially revealed the PS5 Pro ending months of leaks and speculations with an underwhelming 9-minute presentation that saw lead system architect Mark cery trying his best to make the console sound much much more enticing of an upgrade than it actually is a larger GPU faster rendering a greater focus on rate tracing better and more consistent frame rates and entirely new proprietary super sampling technology in pssr on paper the PS5 Pro Sounds like a remarkable step forward but it has failed to make a good first impression which in turn is made much much worse by the fact that the console is ridiculously priced when the PS5 Pro Launches on November 7th Sony will sell it for a price of $699.99 a price that you'd be shocked at if Sony hadn't consistently spent the entire PS5 generation making the the worst possible pricing decisions the bass PS5 itself is still an arguably overpriced console a fact that's exacerbated by the many price increases Sony has implemented for the console itself and its accessories in different regions and often multiple times like in Japan not to mention switching to $70 games having significantly higher PlayStation Plus subscription prices selling the psvr2 for a higher price than the console that it launched as an accessory for or what have you but even though the ridiculous pricing for the PS5 Pro is depressingly on brand for modern-day PlayStation it's still hard not to be shocked at The Audacity Of it let's start with the fact for a great many people the PS5 Pro is already hugely unnecessary to begin with close to 4 years into the ps5s life cycle we're only just barely getting started with this console generation cross gen releases Ruled The Roost for what seemed like an eternity and it's only now that we're starting to see developers making games specifically for current gen Hardware on a more widespread basis we're past the halfway point into this console generation and the PS5 is still struggling to justify its own high price to introduce a console that's supposedly a more powerful version of the hardware that is only just beginning to come into its own doesn't seem like a great idea to begin with you have no idea you are glorious prey worthy of Craven let me tell you how this is all going to go down but when that midgen console refresh is being sold for $700 at that point to say the very least it becomes crucial for Sony to have a really convincing first showing for the console when we first saw the PS5 Pro it needed to be with a sort of presentation that would effectively and abundantly convey its vast benefits over the base console because at an asking price of $700 that's the standard that the console is going to have to reach and did the PS5 Pro reveal manage to do that well let's just be extremely polite and say hell no a significant portion of the 99-minute presentation that saw Mark cery unveiling the PS5 Pro was dedicated to showing gameplay footage of titles running on the console while offering side by-side comparisons with those same games running on a Bas PS5 sadly much of it was underwhelming sure Grant to rmo 7 looks quite impressive with rate tracing enabled Ratchet and Clank Rift apart bothast a greater level of detail in the backgrounds and the prospect of playing The Last of Us Part Two at 60 FPS with the best possible visual Fidelity is an exciting one but ultimately what we've seen so far are little more than marginal upgrades in the grand scheme of things which to say the very least is a massively underwhelming way to debut a console that is going to be sold for $700 the fact that Sony hasn't revealed the PS5 Pro with gameplay footage for any major upcoming title like death stranding 2 on the beach for instance hasn't exactly helped matters especially because many of the games that we did see from control and Horizon forbidden West to Gran Turismo 7 and The Last of Us Part Two are cross gen titles and maybe not the most exciting picks to show off a hardware upgrade with these were games that were nowhere close to getting the most out of the Bas PS5 so to use them to demonstrate what a more powerful version of the console is capable of just seems like yet another in a lost list of poor decisions by Sony where the PS5 Pro is concerned oh and here's something that's really annoying even if it doesn't really matter too much in the larger picture Sony you're selling a midg console refresh for $700 a decision that in and of itself RS of either unbelievable hubris and that $700 doesn't even include a disc drive by the way which incidentally is yet another way to send people deeper down the digital Rabbit Hole where there are no guarantees of permanent ownership even for games that you've bought and paid for is it too much to ask that you don't sell the console's vertical stand separately because boy oh boy talk about nickel and diming this is of course a very obvious argument to be made that the PS5 Pro is not meant as a Mass Appeal device at all but that it is instead being made for the enthusiasts there's little doubt that within the specific demographic the PS5 Pro is obviously going to do well regardless of its price but it's hard not to look at the console and think of it as a waste a waste because the bass PS5 is only just beginning to get its engines warm which makes it unlikely that anyone is going to do much with the PS5 Pro that's going to be too impressive and if that's the console that Sony is releasing the prospect of spending $700 on it also seems like an exorbitant waste it's honestly hard to figure out why Sony is even making the PS5 Pro unlike the PS4 which was already an outdated piece of Kit even when it released the PS5 still has a great deal of juice left in it that developers haven't come anywhere close to fully squeezing out on account of the incredibly slow start this console generation has suffered so it's not like there was any need for a more powerful console on paper one could argue that the release of a midgen console refresh would help Revitalize hardware sales for Sony which is an area where the PS5 has been declining over half a year but at $700 you have to wonder whether the PS5 Pro is going to have enough Mass Appeal to be able to do that you okay I'm working on it thought I lost you there can't get rid of me that easy it's next to impossible to imagine anything the console could do that could ever justify that price but if nothing else one could hope that we get to see upcoming games like death stranding 2 Grand Theft Auto 6 and others running on a PS5 Pro sooner rather than later and that they actually look significantly and meaningfully better than they will on the bass PS5 because that's the level that the PS5 Pro needs to be hitting to come anywhere close to maybe sort of justifying its price tag hey did you know that we at gaming bolt upload new videos every day stick around drop a like subscribe and hit that Bell and let us know what kind of content 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