Playstation 5

Rajaah said:

So, is the PS5 Pro worth getting before the price goes up? I don't expect to see PS6 for a while. My PS5 is getting pretty long in the tooth (I got it on day one) and I could recoup almost half the Pro's current cost by selling my PS5 while it is still in great working condition. Thinking about doing that now rather than going another 1-2 years and having the PS5 start having problems and lose its value while the Pro is now more expensive. It would be pretty doable now.

That said, I'm wondering how much the Pro even does as far as improving things goes. Given how little I hear about it, I'm guessing not much. Needing an external drive sounds pretty dumb too. The word Pro still has positive connotations with me because I had the PS4 Pro from 2016 to 2020 and really liked it.

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I got it when it first came out, but only for my PSVR2. There's some good differences there on the games that support it (GT7, etc). But honestly I would not get it for flat screen gaming. This was before I built my 5090 PC though

spronk said:

if you have a gamestop near you they currently give $315 trade value + 10% pro + $25 random ass promo for it ($371), put that immediately towards a pro before the price hike. if they have it in stock, with the price jump people have been clearing out gamestops

i traded in my launch ps5 and bought a pro at release, honestly i notice zero difference between it and a ps5 but people say PSSR2 runs better on it and shit. i dunno, i barely play any games but when i wanna play cyberpunk 2077 this summer might as well play it on the best. I could play it on my PC too i guess but i usually just prefer gaming on consoles, unless its something like baldurs gate 3

nice thing is a lot of new games have cloud saves so i could even xport my bg3 or cyberpunk save and play on pc if i really wanted

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I just went out and bought one from Target earlier tonight. That Gamestop trade-in is actually a good deal. I'll probably just format my original PS5 and put it on Ebay for whatever it goes for after the price raise. Wanted to get traded up before the price raise and before the long-in-the-tooth launch PS5 started to have any issues.

Too bad that the PS5 Pro isn't a bigger boost over the regular PS5. I haven't tried mine yet, but it seems there are specific games that get specific boosts, and some of them are pretty significant. The games on my shortlist that get boosted by Pro: Resident Evil 9, Hogwarts Legacy, God of War 2, Horizon 1+2, Baldur's Gate 3, Clair Obscur (this is a big one, I was waiting on this one until whenever I get a new TV* and any improvement to it is big), Demon Souls (I replay this almost every year), and FF7 Rebirth. That's a lot of my shortlist right there.

So far, I gotta say the menus are really, really nice.

* - Planning to get an LG G5 at some point by the end of the year (it was $2800 a few months ago, now it's down to $2200, and I expect it to get down to $1600 by Black Friday). I have a C1 now and I just like the G series a lot more, as nice as the C series is. The G series has impeccable contrast and the brightness pops. Like the PS5 it's another situation where I've had something for five years and want to trade upward while it still works great and I can get back half the cost of the new thing. PS5 Pro + LG G1 is me basically "looksmaxing" my TV. Is it necessary? No. But dammit it's a fun goal to have.

Talenvor said:

Pro + lg c4 here and it’s been 100% worth the money. Games look so incredibly good and run smoothly. Got a killer Pro deal around the holidays which made it even better

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When I went from a Sony 4K LED TV to an LG C6 (the 2016 version) 4K OLED with HDR back in 2017, it was seriously like going up a full console generation. PS4 games suddenly looked like PS5 games and PS3 games suddenly looked like PS3.5 games. Anything with a lot of deep blacks, like Persona 5, looked particularly incredible. Once the PS5 came out, the trend continued. I had friends who had a PS5 and like, a Samsung LED TV and the picture on mine was years ahead of theirs.

I've never felt like my C1 measured up to my C6...something's missing. It might just be that I went from a 55 inch TV to a 65 and it messed with the resolution of everything. Whenever I see a G5 in action it reminds me of how wowed I was with the first C6. I was hoping to spring for the G5 and Pro at the same time so I could just get one big jump and have a better chance of being wowed by the purchase. However at this point I'll need to just do one and then the other, not keen on waiting until the Black Friday sales to get the Pro with the prices going up and all that.

Out of the shortlisted things the Pro improves, most of them I have on disc, so I can't actually test out any of them until I get ahold of a disc drive. In the meantime, the only one I have digital is Hogwarts Legacy, so it gets to be all of the testing of the new system.

Oh, Horizon got a remaster with Pro enhancements? That makes two things I can test, looks like my digital OG Horizon auto-upgraded to Horizon Remastered.

Weird how Horizon Zero Dawn got a remaster even though it's one gen old. It was one of the best-looking PS4 games, I thought, maybe even THE best-looking, so not sure why it needed a remaster so soon. It's one of the Pro-enhanced games so I'm interested to see how crazy it looks now.

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