Forget PS5 Pro – Worry about PlayStation 6
gamesreviews.comThe PlayStation 5 Pro was officially announced. It’ll allow you to have fidelity graphics at 60fps. And it’s a… er… steal at $700. And if you think that’s bad, wait until the PlayStation 6 gets announced.
The new pro console boasts the ability to play your games with higher quality visuals while retaining the 60fps. Three quarters of people are choosing performance modes over fidelity. I will save the obvious observation that people picking framerate over graphics at a time when graphics are costing so much to make is a Christmas gift come early for another article. Take the win, Sony – invest in something that’s not visuals.
Instead, let’s focus on that price. I won’t be alone as it’s easily the headline figure in all of this. The console itself isn’t that impressive. It doesn’t have a disc drive. If the PS4 Pro was niche – and it was – the PS5 Pro offers even less reason to upgrade. Its predecessor offered a jump to 4K. There is no such leap in tech to accommodate for here, and it shows in the marketing.
People will buy it if they want to, and all the more power to them. If playing with relatively higher visuals while retaining a decent 60fps is $700 worth of important to you, this is a win. Spend the money on a PC for an even better experience, although I suspect the Grand Theft Auto 6 of it all will be the real selling point here. That’s not coming to PC, but it’ll sure as hell be coming to PlayStation 5 Pro.
For people like me, for whom this new console was only ever going to be academic, this should be very worrying. It gives a rather worrying look at what might come next.
Way back at the beginning of this generation, a rarely talked about tech talk gave a hint at the future.
At Hotchips 2020, Microsoft spoke about the issue with costs. Chip prices were high, and they were unlikely to come down. That was why the Series S exists. Families who usually jump on the bandwagon at the end of a generation when consoles get heavily discounted would have no chance to
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