{"id":16519,"date":"2024-11-11T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/11\/playstation-5-pro-is-sonys-console-upgrade-worth-700\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:40:18","slug":"playstation-5-pro-is-sonys-console-upgrade-worth-700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/11\/playstation-5-pro-is-sonys-console-upgrade-worth-700\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 5 Pro: is Sony\u2019s console upgrade worth \u00a3700?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after the PS5\u2019s release, Sony has now put out a more powerful version. But the asking price is steep<\/p>\n<p>The PlayStation 5 Pro was announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/sep\/11\/sony-reveals-700-playstation-5-pro-console\">in September<\/a>, and immediately people reacted with disbelief to the price: \u00a3699\/$699, without a disc drive. Adjusted for inflation, it is the second-most expensive games console ever released \u2013 beaten only by the PlayStation 3, whose price was quickly slashed when it turned out nobody was willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/sony-to-take-100-loss-on-399-priced-ps3-says-new-report\">work a second job<\/a> to afford one. It\u2019s an addition to, rather than a replacement for, the original PS5 model. All games released so far work on the Pro, and all future PS5 games will work on both models.<\/p>\n<p>For your money, you get an upgraded GPU (graphics processing unit), which is overall 45% more powerful that the original PS5\u2019s; AI upscaling, which makes images more detailed; and advanced ray tracing, which makes the lighting better. In plain English, it\u2019s supposed to make all PS5 games prettier and faster.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/nov\/11\/ps5-pro-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/99b1be7aa0e3389ce13e3f23f072647965a7c51b\/0_85_2560_1536\/master\/2560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f00229c455122b8c32507f0cbcbd58cc\" title=\"PlayStation 5 Pro: is Sony\u2019s console upgrade worth \u00a3700?\" \/>Four years after the PS5\u2019s release, Sony has now put out a more powerful version. But the asking price is steep<br \/>\nThe PlayStation 5 Pro was announced in September, and immediately people reacted with disbelief to the price: \u00a3699\/$699, without a disc drive. Adjusted for inflation, it is the second-most expensive games console ever released \u2013 beaten only by the PlayStation 3, whose price was quickly slashed when it turned out nobody was willing to work a second job to afford one. It\u2019s an addition to, rather than a replacement for, the original PS5 model. All games released so far work on the Pro, and all future PS5 games will work on both models.<br \/>\nFor your money, you get an upgraded GPU (graphics processing unit), which is overall 45% more powerful that the original PS5\u2019s; AI upscaling, which makes images more detailed; and advanced ray tracing, which makes the lighting better. In plain English, it\u2019s supposed to make all PS5 games prettier and faster. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after the PS5\u2019s release, Sony has now put out a more powerful version. But the asking price is steep The PlayStation 5 Pro was announced in September, and immediately people reacted with disbelief to the price: \u00a3699\/$699, without a disc drive. Adjusted for inflation, it is the second-most expensive games console ever released &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/11\/playstation-5-pro-is-sonys-console-upgrade-worth-700\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PlayStation 5 Pro: is Sony\u2019s console upgrade worth \u00a3700?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}