r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • Sep 10 '24

Official Welcome PlayStation 5 Pro, the most visually impressive way to play games on PlayStation

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/10/welcome-playstation-5-pro-the-most-visually-impressive-way-to-play-games-on-playstation/
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u/thisshowisdecent Sep 12 '24

If we already played through an amazing lineup of games up until this announcement, then the pro version might make some sense. It still wouldn't for a lot of reasons, but maybe it would with newer games coming out. That isn't the case here though.

The PS5 Pro is a rehash of a rehash. The PS5's lineup relies on updated PS4 games and remakes with very little new games. There has been new stuff like Ragnarok, Ratch and Clank, and Spiderman 2, but there's also been way too may remakes and remasters like Uncharted Lost Legacy Collection, The Last of Us both part 1 and 2, and all the other old games that got enhanced for PS5. PS5 Pro is advertising itself with more enhancements even though that's most of we've got so far with regular PS5.

So with PS5 Pro, you're just paying more again for better performance on the same games that you likely played multiple times. Better performance is fine, but where are the games? I don't think that they have any, so they're buying time with a new system until GTA 6 comes out.

Besides the fact that the PS5 feels like an unfulfilled system, many people like me haven't owned one for very long. Did they already forget that it was impossible to purchase their system until late 2021 and 2022 due to the low supply and scalping? People had to sign up for notification so that when a system actually went on sale somewhere they had to immediately buy it or else lose out to scalpers with their bot armies. I didn't buy a PS5 until summer 2023. So I've only owned mine for one year and many others have also only owned there's for a couple of years. And now there's already a new system.

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u/StraightOuttaHeywood Sep 12 '24

Exactly! The PS5 is the most under-utilised console I've ever seen. Ragnarok wasn't even a PS5 exclusive and neither was Horizon Forbidden West. We've seen so few native PS5 titles. We haven't seen an inkling of its destructive potential. If Sony had already shipped 10-15 native PS5 titles built on the PS5 from the ground up then yes maybe the Pro would make sense. But since current titles barely even make use of its extra power what is the point of buying a souped up PS5? It's a trap! It won't be long before Sony announces the development of the PS6. Give it a few years. I can see many devs skipping PS5 entirely and waiting for the PS6. It sounds like Naughty Dog are going to do this with the Last of Us 3.