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Witness the price tag (Sony)

Sony has officially announced the PS5 Pro and its release date but its price is far more expensive than anyone ever imagined.

We’re starting to worry about Sony. They’ve been so quiet and withdrawn the last two years, with so few announcements, it’s been hard to understand what their game plan is.

The recent release of Astro Bot has helped to improve morale amongst fans but now all that has been undone with the official reveal of the PS5 Pro.

Here is what you need to know.

How much will the PS5 Pro in the UK?

Sony announced the upgraded console during a brief nine minute presentation, at the end of which they revealed the console will be £699.99 in the UK. Yes, that’s right £700. And it doesn’t even have a disc drive with it – you have to buy that separately.

The console is $700 in the US, which works out at £535. There’s the usual excuse of different taxes being applied but even so, that’s a huge price difference for an outrageously expensive console.

In the end it turned out that the rumours were wrong and there aren’t two models or a split release date, and instead the single model will be released on November 7.

The separate disc drive will cost £99.99, if you don’t already have one, and Sony won’t even throw in a vertical stand for free – that will cost you an extra £24.99.

As already known, there are no new games being released alongside it, so all that Sony systems architect Mark Cerny could do was show off existing games running on the original PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro side to side.

That’s probably going to be a common response (X)

£700 would buy you a lot of games (X)

Not in any great number, no (X)

No doubt there are significant differences if you look in detail but to the naked eye, and certainly to an ordinary, casual gamer, the demonstrations look virtually identical.

It seemed at one point that Cerny was going to say that the PS5 Pro would remove the need to choose between fidelity and performance modes for games on the new console, but he stopped just short of that – even though the general idea is that there’ll be little or no difference between the two on PS5 Pro.

Presumably, he’s leaving the option as possibility for developers that want to use it, but it’s a shame it’s not a more clear cut selling point.

Instead, he emphasised the three pillars of an upgraded GPU, advanced ray-tracing, and AI-driven upscaling (the previously leaked PSSR).

There’s more information on the PlayStation Blog, as well as the promise of a Pro Game Boost, that will enhance ‘more than 8,500 backwards compatible PlayStation 4 games.

The PS4 Pro only accounted for around 10% of overall PlayStation 4 sales, so it seems Sony has just thrown caution to the wind and created an ultra expensive deluxe edition that will likely only appeal to the most hardcore (and rich) fans.

There has been some suggestion that the console will be promoted as the best way to play GTA 6, once it’s released, but if that’s the case the game wasn’t even mentioned during the reveal.

Well, quite (X)

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