PS5 Pro Announced, Costs $700 and Out in November

Wow I was interested until I saw the price! 😮

No disc version???

Disc drive included?

$699 = £699 is some right bull though 🥲

700 USD for nice shadows and hair? I'll stick with performance mode, thanks!

$699 / £699

Oh come on man...

At this price, this will die faster than the psvr2.
Edit: Just realized it does not come with a stand or a disc drive... at US$ 700. This is ridiculous.

Sorry, 799€ without a blu-ray is just too much. Wanted to buy it but the price is too high for a home console.

Yeah no thanks.

Hahaha!! $700 without a disc drive? That's the best joke I've heard all year.

Too rich for my blood, but for people who want 3080 ti like performance without wanting a pc rig and the price to go with .
Looking at £500 just for the rtx 3080 alone -and that's second hand .

4k ray tracing at hight frames is an expensive thing

Honestly for that price point you might as well just drop a grand on a PC

I saw £699.99 and I can't stop laughing

Damn, am I right to understand that it comes withot Disk and also ... without stand .... come on.....

€800?! Hard pass.

I’m sorry but $700 without the vertical stand and disc drive is actually insane. I’m not here to tell people what they can and can’t spend their money on, but did anything in that video really spell out $200 worth of improvements? (And that’s without the vertical stand and disc drive of base model).

Forget that 700 and it's discless.

Wow.. 699 and to show it off they did some engine running footage from some of the best games of the last gen.. really I did expect something more, not going to lie, was geared up for getting one, but purely based on that, I'll save the cash!

Sony really did it. A $700 console with no disc drive and no stand, meaning that if you want to replace your existing fat PS5 you will end up spending more than $800 ON A CONSOLE!

And tbh, I didn’t even notice that big of a difference in everything they showed.

Are they really gonna sell a $700 console? Are there people that are actually gonna buy this

Sounds like a beast, hope preorders go smoothly. Can't wait to get one!

What an absolute joke, a hugely underwhelming presentation even though I suspected it's improvements would be fairly modest, but that price is laughable and it doesn't even have a disc drive.

So just the £800 to play physical games and watch blu-ray's 😂😂😂

They sold me on it. I'm disappointed in myself, lol. Just seems like an indispensible GTA6 upgrade

Get it right it's £700 STERLING! Do NOT try to hide that fact!!!! And that's BASE price, Disk Drive is extra! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Really, for this price they should include the stand :/

Definitely not paying that and having to buy a disc drive.

That price point for diminishing returns, when it still doesn't really feel like the base PS5 has been used efficiently... Plus raising the price of the dualsense.

I need some of whatever Sony is smoking.

I could barely see the difference, this isnt like ps4 pro jumps. Bit scandalous to be fair, have we seen the ps5 at its best ?

That price is not going to go down too well but again it depends on the hardcore enthusiasts and what they are willing to pay. The Portal proved successful so I wonder if they see a market at this price.

Damn that's a beefy expensive boy! I will still get it even if my wallet stops talking to me 🥲

I didn't see a reason in that video to pay $700 for a digital system.

At $700USD I'm left to ask myself: with these mid-cycle upgrades being so expensive, at which point do we console gamers just switch to PC? Buying a new GPU or CPU/RAM is looking to be a cheaper way to get the same gains as buying a Pro console.

Absolutely insane pricing, for the tiniest of differences. Add on the attachable disc drive for another £100 and thats £800 in the UK. At that price BUY A PC.

Ooft what a letdown. I'm not going to spend 700 quid to see some more pores in Aloy's face. We are way past the point of diminishing returns...

Also, they had a chance to redesign the console and they stuck an accordion looking thing in the middle of it. I love my PS5 but they actually made it look uglier somehow.

Disappointing video, disappointing price (though I expected something around £650-700). Good news: we are now moving to PS6, which, having been just blindsided by Sony, I will not buy and will wait for inevitable PS6Pro.

I recently got owned a ton of money due to various things and well i could afford it quite easily. Tempting.

I love new tech but it needs to show its worth.

If that's the best we are getting I can save my money.

Other than Hogwarts which looked very shiny I thought it was all pretty underwhelming.

Oh and as everyone has noted, no disc drive sucks...

$700 with no optical drive included?

Wow. No thank you.

I wasnt going to spend 800 euros on this, but since FF7 is going to be quality 60 fps... Sold!

I was interested at £630 max for a disc console.

But this is just too much.

$700 is ridiculous. I don't know if I'd pay that for a PS6.

Erm where's the disc drive then, no use for me with no drive or are they expecting me to buy one of those as well, and how much is that ? So are we looking at nearly a grand for this, are they taking the piss

800€ and that without a disc drive!? Yeah ***** you Sony I'm out.

Not even GTA 6 will be able to save it for this price.

At this point I just don’t see the point in consoles. You can get a decently powerful gaming pc at this price and it plays most thing on consoles anyway. You might as well just bite the bullet and get a gaming pc.

I was way out with £530

Does Sony LIKE to shoot itself in the foot? Nobody, and I will repeat, almost NOBODY will be buying this. Prices for groceries and gas are already sky high thanks to inflation, so putting this ''pro'' console at such a ridiculous price... will only raise the sales for the original model. Yikes, Sony. Big yikes.

Cool stuff Sony, cool stuff. Now I'll be needing to see the disc version, s'il vous plait.

799€ and not even including a disc drive? Hell no, not getting that.

Yeah, I'm sticking with my base PS5 that has a disc drive and a stand

Is it 1tb anyone know?

Xbox is busy going third party, PS is busy pricing themselves out of the market! AMD are laughing all the way to the bank!

It's clear that this thing is only meant for enthusiasts, but this is simply not going to sell in Europe and the UK at those prices.

Disappointing. I'm good with my "fat" PS5. Turning my sights towards the release of the 5090.

It will still sell out and be scalped.

People think "oh that's too expensive, no one will want it".

Guys.............£1800 RTX4090's sold out. That's just the GPU, they are spending £1000+ on the rest of the PC too.

A lot of people have a lot of money to burn. These things will go like hot cakes with people queuing up to get one.

Sorry if you aren't one of them, but it is what it is.

Wow, they’ve gone full PS3 Sony. £800 in the UK to get one of these and a disc drive. That’s $1044.

When I seen the price I nearly dropped my tablet 😅. Sorry not for me and when you think it will be another £100 for the drive.

I'm sorry but £699 is absolutely insane

I guess they couldnt have released it for $599 seeing as the "new xbox series X" in december goes for that price and the rtx4070 equivalent card costing $599 already, so $699 seems reasonable. Im still interested but will definitely wait now..

Absolutely laughable. Sony hubris.

£700 is equivalent to $914.34 US Dollar. Britain getting ripped off again!

On the current sku I have, it has the final fantasy plate's so I don't want to replace them and then be back to square one with an all white looking model plus my pc could do with a CPU upgrade so it's pointless going for this.

Sony sucks so much right now and in the last 3 years, it's so effin depressing...

Yes, I will forget everything as soon as that Naughty Dog logo appears in a first trailer (hopefully this December) but man..
Why can't my favorite company not just behave like a good boy.

I'll wait and buy this when GTA 6 launches next year.

Even when it drops in price, you’ll still have to buy the disc drive if you go physical, so what’s the point really? Might as well wait for the PS6

Somehow Sony have found a way to make pc gaming look like good value

Wait, can it be placed horizontally without a stand?

Sony back on their PS3 stupidity I see.

Ill be getting it day 1, cant wait

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I wouldve got one if it includes the drive and sold my knackered old ps5 , I have loads of discs what the hell do they expect me to do with those, nobheads

I’m still on a 1080p screen so no use to me.

£700 and no disc drive?

Wow. No chance.

Well that’s not going to improve their 5 million down in Europe over the PS4 same time line.

Wait.is the ps5 pro digital only.or does it come wirh a disc.word up son

Nah I'm good. I'll stick with the current PS5. The price is about where I expected too as crazy as that sounds.

My perfectly silent 11xx chassis looks like my main console for another five years, then.

@themightyant plus the vast majority of games do still hit at or close to 60 fps.

Even if I wanted it day 1, I’m gonna wait. Have more important priorities right now.

The leakers and rumor men and women nailed it to a T! It was the exact specs i was hearing for months on months. The price is around $100 more than i was hopeful for. But i will preorder it for sure and sell my base model. Will be nice to have the frames and better graphics together. Can’t wait to see more games patch and of course GTA 6!!

Yeah, no. The difference in graphics and performance isn't enough for me to upgrade mid mid-gen and no disc drive is another negative. The price is a joke too. They should never release a console over £500, it's way too much. At that point, you might as well spend a bit extra to get a PC so £700 is nonsense.

I'm digital only, so driveless makes no odds to me. And if £700 means lower demand then great, makes it more likely I can grab one on launch.

700 bucks before taxes

Because of course they do this. 1.9 billion net profit isn’t enough for greedy fingers.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/07/sony-earnings-q1.html

This is why we need more competition and why it’s a shame Microsoft screwed up so massively during the Xbox One days.

Just checked the price of a disc drive in germany 130 €, so in total 930€.

Can I have two, pretty please?

An all digital future is slowly upon us, it's time to cherish and keep hold of our old games.

no internal disk drive that is a no for me..

Enjoy it, folks.
Just like Apple having the gall to release that new VR headset at that outrageous price in this economical climate, here comes Sony with this now . Who can afford these things?
I consider myself well off but there is no way in hell even I can afford this, and even if I could, it’s be really hard to even justify it. The PS5 is perfectly fine as is. I’m actually a bit disgusted.

Why is the price in dollars in the headline? You're in the UK, why are we always second class? It's not even $700 because that doesn't take tax on board. At least £700 is an accurate representation of the price.

FFS... 699 usd is 634 EUR not 799 !!!!!!!

Yeah, I'll keep my original PS5. I'm Brazilian, so if the US price is already absurd, it will be even worse in my country. For me, the improvements shown are just not worth the 200 dollars increase. And that isn't even including the disk drive.

That's €830 without a disc drive. So €930 with a disc drive. I can't see me buying one at that price

What’s the lifespan of this until PS6? At that price ???

a external disk drive will cost 80 bucks..

£699.99? Come on man, I got 5 kids to feed.

The price doesn’t justify the buy. This exceeds the infamous “599 USD” from the PS3

@RiceC03 Absolutely mate

Quickest 100 comments on an article ever? Got to be close.

Insanity. Sony is so out of touch. Who thought that this presentation was a good idea. You're going to try and sell me on a $700 console with Demon Souls and the last of us to a PS4 game are you f****** kidding me. Oh wait I can have clearer back ground assets like the crowd in the bleachers on the first level of Ratchet and Clank or slightly better looking trees in Spider-Man 2?! Are you serious right now? 60 fps for games I already beat and many of which are several years old or more? Lol nahhh.

Very few people are buying this console to replay these old games that most have completed. The decision to green light revealing this with no new game reveal fully utilizing the hardware or even just a teaser is insanity.

Aside from all that, the price point is just ridiculous. you know they're just fishing again,.... they're going to do the same s*** they did with psvr 2, and honestly all add'l hardware this Gen, and wait until all the few hundred thousand whales and scalpers buy it at the overpriced nonsense before they make it priced what it should be and what it's actually worth if they even ever do that.

At this price without a disk drive ($779.98 total), you aren't even getting people that have been holding off on migrating to this generation to bite. Should have dropped the base ps5 price and make this priced as it should be.
This just doesn't make sense. Sony's leadership is again, just so out of touch. This feels like the most mismanaged generation they've ever had.

I am always interested in new tech, what the "best" version of my console is. But I think Sony has jumped the shark somewhat here. £700. No disc drive. No stand. ~45% improvement, assuming devs use the additional power?

If this machines moves the needle for devs on creating games with 60 - 120 fps (and 60 being the baseline) at 4K, then great. I'll join that party in due course.

But for now, like some have said here, I'll keep my OG PS5 (with its' 2TB extra SSD + 3TB external HD), play the games I have, and see what the PS6 Pro is like.

No where did put my Switch and Series x 🤣

2tb storage so that is a plus..

£700? Eat my ass Sony.

EIGHT HUNDRED EUROS WITHOUT A DISC DRIVE !

So I guess....

NINE HUNDRED EUROS WITH A DISC DRIVE !!

Are they completely out of their freaking minds ?

I mean... watching the presentation, I was like "ok, I want one".

But when I saw the price... just no. I'm sorry, but no.

I can play in 30 fps, no problem.

Oh, and not a single word on PSVR2 ? Cause, I mean... that extra power should also be used for VR, no ?

Don't you think, Sony ?

Ah there wasn't a solid selling point to this at all we've already had numerous current gen re-hashes and the games we've played already have already been great and are far long behind, it's not being integrated with every game I just can't see the point of replaying everything we've played already at that price point, this is more for developers and their future developments, the investments just isn't worth it at this point in my opinion.

Wasn't going to get it before, definitely not getting it at 800 euro.

Maybe it is a blessing I didn't start Final Fantasy Rebirth yet. I'd definitely play it on the Pro when it is updated.

This pricing is how a competition-less market looks like.

Same story as Nvidia GPU prices.

please make a poll, who is preordering, I am curious (not for scalping, but playing)

this is just ridiculously high price.

will stick to my Fat PS5

i guess power consumption of this device is also over the top..

Many of us don't even have the monitors/TVs to really get the most out of the fidelty mode, which is at least partly why 3/4ths of players use performance mode. Making it so we can have the best of both worlds only really matters for those of us with 4K monitors; NOT the giga-sized selling point they think it is

I'm going to be blunt. I can't justify paying £700 on a games console. TBH, I can't imagine your average casual gamer doing that, either. The online hardcore gamers will love it, though.

£700! to play lego horizon naa im good mate this will sell and probably be supported as well as the psvr2

I think pricing this at $600 would've been the better option. At least then you could sell your old PS5 for $200-300 and only be paying around $300-400 for PS5 Pro. That being said the combined graphics/performance mode do be looking nice

This is the generation where Sony have officially lost the plot! No system selling games and insane price points. Time to jump on the PC bandwagon me thinks.

Going to be quite humorous if the ps5 pro can’t run both monster hunter wilds and gta 6 at a locked 60fps for £700

Does it come with 2tb of storage? Anything on the new dualsence controller?

With Xbox failing so hard, I fear this is the Sony we'll be seeing from now on. PS3 era arrogance.

@Jireland92 no console games then if you prefer pc then you are not a console fan..

@CrashBandicoat yup there is definitely still a market for it. But the lack of PS5 price cuts is also adding to the negative sentiment. Either way let's see how it does. Sony never announced the breakdown of PS4 and Pro officially.

I was definitely buying at my guess of £530
But not now at £700

$700 and no disk drive. Sorry no. It has a 2 TB drive. I buy all my games digitally but I am also old and have lots of DVD's, and Blu-Rays. This would be hooked up to the man cave entertainment center and without spending even more I can't watch my disks? I think this is a misstep.

Pricing makes literally no sense.

I agree with most: the price is simply too high.

What I hope for now is it leads to a price cut for the slim so I can pick up one of those to back up my launch model.

after a nice presentation that price is a loss for sony this will not sell well..

@ChromaticDracula I think Sony have been a disgrace with this and the VR2, if it was microsoft there would be uproar ha ha. I have both before people jump on me

More graphics. More performance. Meh. That's fine. Not really interested at 700$.

I was all up for it until they dropped the price tag .... I honestly expected maximum £550 - £600 (at a push!) whilst also expecting them to show at least one unreleased game running on the new specs.

Hard sell, Sony. Hard sell.

Everyone: Surely the ps5 pro won't be anymore than $600.
Sony: AND THIS IS GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND

Bwhahahahaha! Sony you can keep that. I could use some more games though.

No disc drive too? Nah I will keep my PS5. That does make me wonder if Sony is done with built in disk drives. Ah well, I am heading back to PC next gen anyway. I am more excited for the Nintendo Switch successor now though.

I think they're taking the piss a bit here, but I can currently get £232 for my PS5 from CEX making the pro £468 which makes things a lot more palatable.

@Synthatron_Prime
Nope!

Almost choked on my drink laughing at 800€. I had no interest in the Pro to begin with, but this is an even more bafflingly bad deal than I anticipated.

If this would magically turn every game from 30 fps to 60 by machine learning frame addition, or there were a lot of games supporting it in this way, then nice, but this is such a negligible improvement… Performance mode is now a bit more fancy – that's all.

PS4 was a FullHD console and PS4 Pro made it somehow 4K (od 2.5K) for at least some games. Sadly, this is not such improvement

@CrashBandicoat

Right people clutching their pearls in the comments.
Go buy a outdated 3090 without the rest of the bits and see how much that is second hand .
You want 4k ray tracing and good fps. This is price .

As someone who upgraded my PS4 to a Pro, and loved it, no thanks.

$700? Yikes. I was hoping $600 and a normal Ps5 price drop to $400. But $700 and It has no disc drive? Hard pass.

@michaelf I really hope the PS6 isn't coming in two years time. Will that cost £700, too? The folks that spent £700 on the ps5 pro will be fuming if it's obsolete in two years

LMAO--$700 for an upgraded system in a generation that's desperately lacking for noteworthy games, AND you have to buy the disc drive separately. This is a bad joke.

I'll wait for the PS6--and I'm not going to be an early adopter of that, either.

Stand sold separately? I see they've been taking notes from Apple. Atrocious pricing.

Feel like they have to announce some actual games to soften the blow before November, at least 🫠

Now Nintendo can swoop in and steal the shine.

Lmao at Sony spoiling the ending to Rebirth.

No disc drive at a $700 price point is insanity, and there's not even an option to buy one with the console. All of my favorite PS5 games are physical discs and you're telling me I can't play them??

If you don't own a PS5 then maybe, until I saw the price without a even a disc drive. The impression of this Cerny talk was not very positive, especially towards the many PS5 owners. Almost like, your PS5 can't do the "big three", you need to upgrade.

I always go for performance mode and I expect the "big three" to be on that machine, especially with the 8K on the box.

Now, get out of your bubble, go make some SP games, and forget about this silliness!!

Edit:

$700 = €634,89
€800 = $881,98

Wow that's expensive for what you get. It says it includes a 2TB SSD, as in internal storage or an M.2 pre-installed?
Because I personally don't want to pay for an M.2 that I won't use or need since I'd be transferring my current one.

The only way this is an upgrade for me is if it will actually do 4K 120hz with 4:4:4 color space. (PS5 currently does 4:2:2 when 120hz is enabled)

@Jireland92 there is plenty of reasons to get a console. A 700$ PC is very mid. The thing is people don't have to get the PS5 pro. Just like one doesn't have to get an $400+ GPU. It just depends on what one cares about.

700$ and it doesn't even have a disc drive?
Thankfully I'm happy with the performance of the base PS5 lol

@VaultGuy415 I’m all in too and I hate myslef for it

Important info from the blog:
The PS5 Pro console will be available this holiday at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $699.99 USD, £699.99 GBP, €799.99 EUR, and ¥119,980 JPY (includes tax). It will include a 2TB SSD, a DualSense wireless controller and a copy of Astro’s Playroom pre-installed in every PS5 Pro purchase. PS5 Pro is available as a disc-less console, with the option to purchase the currently available Disc Drive for PS5 separately.

PS5 Pro will launch on November 7, 2024 and will be available at participating retailers and directly from PlayStation at direct.playstation.com. Preorders will begin on September 26, 2024.

I'm no Micheal patcher but I'm not seeing a smash hit here.

So £800 if you want a disc drive. Thanks, Sony, but I think I'll pass.

There simply isn't enough utilising the PS5 as is. It's like they sold as an Early Access console to start with, with all the promises they made about performance, and now they're offering us a console that may achieve what they originally told us the PS5 could do.

So, nope...!

Even scalpers can't afford it! 😂

@TicklefistCP I really hope they do.

This whole generation has really shown me how I've aged out of being the main-target demographic for videogames.

As far as I'm concerned, a "pro" upgrade to the current gen is borderline insulting. I can't think of more than 3-4 titles that makes me feel like the generation has even properly left the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X behind.

My PS5 has mostly been gathering dust since I wrapped up FFVII: Rebirth as it is, so at this price with no disc-drive and no killer-app to sell us on it? I'mma give this a pass.

Nice upgrade, but I’ve either played or have no interest in games that are likely to get a patch, and we have maybe a few years of new games before the PS6. Doesn’t seem worth it.

I deserve a discount after falling for their $600 PSVR2 scam. Oof $780 for a PS5 and disc drive to do what? Make PS4 games like tlou2 and got run better?

So around 800 bucks for more detailed backgrounds that I wouldnt even notice, more blades of grass on the ground that I also wouldnt notice, and a disc drive and stand that I'd have to pay for separately. Assing my laugh off.

Add about another 100 for a disk drive and stand.....$800?! Yikes.

Oh wait, taxes......

That's insane. I think it will fail ultimately. I don't expect it to sell better than the first VR sold and way less than PS4 pro did. Way less. Not for that price. If you want disk drive that's 900 euros. That's insane. Add another pair of 🎮 and it is 1000, you can buy a PC that's probably similarly capable to run, plus you can upgrade it down the line. Much larger game library and in general just superior all round..

I was super stoked for the PS5 pro, but not for this ridiculous out of touch price.

It's not too bad for the people in the US

@Peach64 I reckon they showed the one without the drive because they didn't want to show the disc version for £899 , im not spending that on a console I just can't justify it

£800 if you want a disc drive too. Oof.

Pricing has done me a favour as I won’t be tempted to get this at launch. Does seem a weird sell too - ton of cash to make existing games run (a little?) better. If they’d have shown off some new / unannounced 1st / 2nd party stuff to show a more compelling case I might have caved.

I knew it would be pricy just not that much without a disc drive haha. Glad the press photo confirms that the disc drive can be bought. I'll still be picking one up.

I'll stick with what I have, thanks!

I don't see this one selling too well at that price point and no physical drive - especially as this is aimed at enthusiasts (who happen to also want physical media).

Disappointed in the price, but... I'm gonna pre-order anyway...

Time to work a little overtime!

It'll sell, of course it will.
Will it sell out, hmm, yes, maybe so.

But this gives the late 2024 Series X space in the market. And of course, the old 5 will see an uplift. Price alone will dictate.

They simply haven't done enough for such a financial leap.

Ok, the 'new' X doesn't have an upgraded GPU, but the graphical increase are not immediately noticeable to my 47 year old eyes.

This will push more players towards the old 5 who were waiting out, and that price does not kill off the 'new' Xbox.

Factor that in with gamepass, your looking at a present under the tree that's pushing 1000$/£ with an extra controller and a couple of games for someone brand new into the ecosystem.

But if you are thinking of selling your old PS5 to put towards the Pro, I think it'll hold it's price quite well as there is such a large price difference between it, and the Pro.

You know what would be really unsurprising...if they charged 10 to 15$£ for the pro unlocks on existing games.
Not detected by the machine and free to the players, but behind a paywall.

And this is coming from someone who has a day one PS5 and a Series X.

@RiceC03 See, I'm tempted to sell my PC and my fat PS5 and just go Pro. Dealing with crashes, random bluetooth failures, and the genuinely unpleasant experience of Windows on a TV isn't worth it vs. a 3090-equiv. PlayStation

Disk drive not included
Vertical stand? 🤔
It will have 2tb 👀

If GTA 6 gets delayed again than by the time that game comes out there will probably be some sort of discount on the PS5 Pro 🤔

I'm guessing my collection of PS4 and PS5 discs aren't going to be much use to me for much longer. Literally everything about this announcement sucks.

@tinCAT-zero The US pricing does not include tax as this depends on which state you purchase it, so once you factor that in it is essentially the same as other regions.

Just to add up, in 3-4 years we will be buzzing around ps6 and what base price point will it come up to? 700?? That's stupid. That's not what gaming consoles were all about. With these prices it sure looks like they might soon face the last of consoles, as Microsoft already gave up.

I'm looking at $950 Canadian?! I'll have to lean more on PC cause damn.

Maybe Sonys plan is trying to push us towards PC. Feels like it with this pricing…

Massive PlayStation fan but without a drive and asking for seven hundred pound !!! I won’t be getting this unless they announce something massive for it !

I reckon this will be the first console I won't be pre-ordering since the PS3.
I actually have control of my FOMO (for once) with this and will wait to see some in-depth reviews on it before deciding whether it's a worthy upgrade over my PS5.

@MUG3NHC

Your 699 includes a 20% VAT

My American 699 includes no tax at all.

So it's actually £540 = $699

I wanted it until I saw the price. Ridiculous. You could almost get two PS5's for a slightly better machine.
Sony are going out of their way to drive away their player base.

Day one! Will put my original PS5 in the living room.

@devil76 Yeah it's honestly wild to think about... Prices are on the rise for everything and it's really hard to justify what I won't even call a convenience upgrade.
...that being said, speaking of VR2, I'm kicking myself for not getting VR2 while it was on that recent big sale.

I’m happy as no disc drive and the price on top rules me out.
I’ll wait until the PS6 thanks

At that price a PC is way more tempting

@OldGamer999 2tb for the pro

Instead of upgrading to this you can get a PSVR2 and several dozen great games and really enjoy yourself.

It has 2 terabytes? Why? WHY? Seriously, what idiot at Sony thought it a good idea to make it MORE expensive by doubling the storage?
Seriously you are not going to persuade people to buy more digital games by pricing it so high! They seriously should have left that extra terabyte, oh and left WiFi 7 OUT and slashed the price by a hundred or more.

Sony, what the hell are you doing? I dread to think how much they'll charge for the PS6 now, they've gone back to their PS3 launch days...

So 2tb and the current slim disc drive needs to be bought separately, otherwise all other peripherals work on it.

Plus there appears to be a feature called 'game boost' for improving performance and visuals on some PS4 and PS5 games - wonder if this is similar to the Xbox feature.

Anyway, not sure any of that justifies the price and to be honest if this is the future of console gaming I will be doing a whole lot less of it in the future...

@TheOldHunter4K if they charge for graphical upgrades on a console you've just spent nearly a grand on, well gaming is truly dead

Looks incredible and totally worth the doubling of price!

"Other enhancements include PS5 Pro Game Boost, which can apply to more than 8,500 backward compatible PS4 games playable on PS5 Pro. This feature may stabilize or improve the performance of supported PS4 and PS5 games. Enhanced Image Quality for PS4 games is also available to improve the resolution on select PS4 games."

Now I'm interested! But the whole paragraph is a perfect definition of word VAGUE

Too expensive, without the disc drive, and with the same problematic dualsense with crap analogic sticks.
They should at least replace the controller analog sticks for a Hall effect mechanism.

Haaaaaaaaaaa £700 and no disc drive.

Well played Sony, well played.

Guess I'm not a pro.

£700 and doesn’t even include a disc drive?!? Even if I could afford it I simply couldn’t justify spending that much on a mid-generation console. Pass.

Welcome back, egotistical PS3 era Sony!

@johnedwin I’ve played consoles my whole life, but with Sony and Microsoft releasing most of their games on PC now, why bother with consoles anymore?

@RiceC03 for it to run the same as a base PS5? Lol.

I almost want to just drop PlayStation 5 and get a PC.
Their latest PS5 Pro unveiling, as expected, was soulless, corporate and bleak. Zero flash, just another lazy depressing dark-vibed' ominous junk presentation hosted by an uncool version of Garth from Wane's World, showing off many of their hyper realistic cinematic snooze fest of exclusives. Are they trying get us excited, or put us in a state of depression?

Sony was so much more fun when they embodied mid 90's pop culture with PS1...I don't know, it's either PS5 Pro as a side console next to my Switch OLED or a PC with a bit more power than a PS5 Pro.

And as expected, PS5 Pro is just another two tone black & white box...But with 3-4 black stripes strapped to the side. Mind blown. lol That's the future for ya! lol. Nintendo is the only company left with less than half their soul intact these days. They're more corporate, beat for beat and boring and are a complete shadow of their former 80's & 90's-self, but still a lot more up beat and cheery' than PS & MS.

Sony needs to lighten up, maybe take a page from their PS1 days, and catch a rainbow or two.

@themightyant fair. How much is Sales tax? $200?

@S1ayeR74 I'm convinced that last update on the ps5 broke my disc drive to make me buy more digital games , it was fine before that

They don’t even have any games coming out lmao. Honestly after going all in on PlayStation earlier this year, buying vr2 and the dual sense edge only to wind up mostly back on gamepass I think I’ll pass. Also I prefer the smooth sides on the og ps5

Dead. On. Arrival.

Day one! Well it would have been if it came with a disc drive and wasnt 800 euro.
Ridiculous price. I dont care how good it is.

@ChromaticDracula yeah that was much more reasonable a price

Arrogant Sony is back and in full effect. Raising prices everywhere. Wow...

Good to see Dana Carvey still going strong.

@thefourfoldroot1 yeah if Sony do that £330 deal again on PSVR 2 I'd encourage everyone to get it.

Nothing compares to playing in VR, I love it to bits.

I'm happy to keep my original PS5. That and the Switch OLED are probably my final consoles. It will take some pretty innovative games, to keep me gaming into the future. VR still has a way to go and live service isn't for me. Need some new genres or some really exciting game mechanics.

@Can-You-Believe-Sith Smart thinking.

@Jayslow 1000% agree there should be a PSVR2 apology bonus 😂

I genuinely struggle to see the benefit of Fidelity mode. Maybe it's my eyes or my TV. So while this would be nice for the fancy lighting and stuff, I just can't justify £700 for such minor improvement.

"Why not switch to PC?!?!"

Re-buying my library of ~400 games alone would cost FAR more than the PS5 Pro. Not to mention having to buy the PC, monitor, and peripherals.

Showcasing the same old games to sell new hardware again? No thanks, my fat ps5 with the launch price was a decent value.

$700 for a small upgrade to a 4 year old console, with AI upscaling, enhanced ports and no disc drive. Also right after DualSense price hike.

Love it. This gave me a good laugh. Isn't modern Sony just the best? Gotta love what benefits a lack of competition brings to the industry!

Seriously though, **** off. PS5 launch model remains the last hardware I'll buy from them. Economy is awful and late stage capitalism with its need of constant unsustainable shareholder growth is starting to corrupt everything now, not just games. Gonna save up for Switch 2 and maybe move to PC after this generation dies out for the 'cutting edge' or whatever, like most others I've talked to.

I'm very disappointed there is no disk drive, therefore I won't be buying it now, you dropped the ball Sony....

@VaultGuy415 Can't really blame you, that being said. Some PC ports recently have shockingly bad

800€ for almost the same console that we have + 120€ for the disk drive - 920€ total

and all we get is a upgrade for the fidelity mode to play the games at 60fps.

this is the worst upgrade ever between consoles to date.

only the sickos that want the extreme graphic package will buy this.

will not buy. ps5 all the way

@CKFilms Yeap, and you wait many believe Nintendo will reveal the Switch 2 this month, and it could cost say 350 to 400 max. That's the one I'm excited for. I've got my far PS5 disk and might not bother with a PS6 to be honest. Sony just releasing overpriced underpowered (for the money) mid gen refreshes.

I will be ALL OVER this machine. Also cheaper than I thought^^

Loving all the doom and gloom.

Now that I have settled down, surely this now sets the tone for the pricing for the PS6.

And if that's the case, I'll switch fully over to PC, if I'm paying that sort of money for a console, which will have a mid gen refresh in 3/4 years, I'd rather up my budget and control my own upgrades.

£699 ps5
£99.99 disk drive
£24.99 console stand
£823.98 total if one wants to jump from ps4 or ps5 standard to this.

You know what else worries me?
If a ps5 pro costs nearly £700, what will be the price of a ps6?

How much will the PS6 cost!!!

@ButterySmooth30FPS don’t forget the pain of hardware issues on PC as well as the terrible experience also known as windows 😂

I used to game on PC but just can’t be bothered with the hassle despite its advantages.

£700?! +£100 is you want the disc drive?
This is really for the high end users.

@NoNameLad the PS6 will easily be £600 minimum.

@DonJorginho but can that AI render this image to 8k?

Yikes. The PS4 Pro was $399 when it came out, the same price as the regular PS4 when it was first released. The PS5 digital was $399 so it's $300 more for a Pro?

Lmao what a joke ..as expected can't see a difference.....would have to be Insane to buy it if you already have a ps5...even if you don't would still be alot more logical just to get the base ps5

I am sure some of the super fanboys will still buy it though and claim it's worth it because it renders an extra 2 trees 2 miles in the background

@Bamila 8x the detail!

Getting PS3 price reveal flashbacks with this one...

@NoNameLad it will be 1000£+, if they go with this

@dskatter and no vertical stand.

@Shalooda Wouldn't surprise me. They are after your wallet now that's for sure.

Well, I'm brazilian, here in my country things are very expensive. So, I won't be upgrading.

PlayStation really needs competition. Imagine if Xbox leaves the hardware business.

Lmao hell naw bruh

@Ooccoo_Jr
Oh, I didn't think of that.

With that price tag, looks like I'll be keeping my digital PS5.

All I’m saying is with another $300 you can have a pretty good PC set up

As Lenny from the Simpsons would say, "nah"

PS4 Pro wasn't for everybody and neither is this. I'll pass and just ride my PS5 into the sunset like I did my launch PS4. I want to be wowed playing PS6!

@Fyz306903 I agree! I'd go bananas if I'd just spanked almost a grand on a PS5pro + disc drive and 18 months / 2 years later there's an announcement for the next playstation.

Hence why I'm pausing my journey on this mad rat race. I'll enjoy what I've got, will buy a few games and when the invariable PS6 pro is released, I'll get that.

I stopped buying new iPhones every time a new one was announced and can quite easily "cope" with a new device every four or so years and I can easily do the same here.

And that with me being able to afford a PS5 pro + disc drive + stand!

Seven HUNDRED quid for no disc drive and no guaranteed 60fps at 4K. What an awful, awful presentation that was.

So disc drive is now not a basic functionality but optional? Are we really regressing to N64 era? When gaming becomes fully digital, its going to be a dark day for consumers

700 quid? Sod that. Add a disc drive and it's 8 ton. And what's with this £700=$700 nonsense? Even with VAT it should come in at under £645!

Might as well go and get an eye test and new glasses, because I'd need them to see the difference anyway!

This might actually sell less than PSVR 2. A mostly pointless hardware endeavor. I'll wait for PS6.

Are we going to be talking £1000 for the PS6? Xbox is no where now, and the Switch despite being the same thing targeted at the same market, is seen as different.
So Sony are doing what they like and pricing things as such.

But I do think it will face competition from PC's but also the new PC handheld market.

• Same stupid design
• No disc drive
• Eye-watering price

Nope

Echoing the majority of comments here. I would have bit if the system came with a drive as im due some bonus around that time but knowing i will need to buy extra components like the drive and the stand has turned me off the idea completely. I will just stick to my OG ps5. The worrying thing is how much the PS6 is gonna cost. I think the days of console gaming for me are over after this gen because i just cant afford to be dropping up to £1000 on a console.

@GreatAuk Our VAT rate is 20%, so once you add that to the dollar price, the £ price should be around £640. So Sony is still marking the UK up by ~£60/$78 compared to the USA.

I got a ps5 but also went the pc route, which was about 1500 euro, because that gives you a crazy amount of options. Especially when youre into sim racing. Not sure why you'd spent 800 to play the same games at marginally better performance?

Can’t wait. Ordered the disc drive now for 80 quid

@CrashBandicoat “ Guys.............£1800 RTX4090's sold out. That's just the GPU, they are spending £1000+ on the rest of the PC too.”

People aren’t just buying 4090s for gaming. People are buying 4090s for WORK. That can be writes off as a business expense on tax…. Definitely not the same thing

Disc drive excluded 🤣

I was bang on the money with my £699.predicton on metro and Eurogamer.

@playstation1995 No disc drive unfortunately but you can add one like with the slim, also no stand. You do however get an extra 1TB of storage (2TB drive).

So yeah pretty rubbish deal really if you have a day one fatty like most of us Gonna cost about £820 total here in the UK!

Sony and Playstation are dying.

I know the future and the present is on PC, but I don't like to play there. I will get my Switch 2 and see what will be the future, in the end if PC is the only way, I'll just leave from this hobby.

So I guess consoles becoming more and more likes PC is inevitable. Considering more games being multiplatform and companies like Sony or Microsoft saying that exclusives are dying. Then this pricing actually makes sense. Sony didn't even have to announce any new games to sell it, and there are almost no first party exclusive games for 2025-26 that we know of right now. It's still a bit more affordable than PC though.

Dude that's about $950 Canadian. Over $1,000 after taxes, a cold G. Absolute lunacy.

Liked everything I saw, till they showed us the price. Damn...

@GreatAuk *£583.33 plus VAT .

@Sergo Unfortunately it is, once you had the European 21% VAT...

No game announcements with that massive price tag then? Love the confidence Sony.

1000 in my country's currency. If this is what Sony is going for for the PS6, I'm done with this platform

I'm just glad i'm not crazy on graphics. So i don't need this $700+ console when i had tons of fun playing simple games like Vampire Survivors, Shadow of the Ninja Reborn, Patapon, or retro games.

But thanks to Cerny, his soothing voices helps me feels asleep faster than before lol.

UK getting shafted the value of the pound is completely different to US dollars. So we're paying more. Ludicrous.

£700 is a total joke. No disc drive (I'm not buying one separately - it should be included).

This is supposed to be a "Pro" console but they can't even throw in a cheap £25 stand and include the disc drive? Sony own the Blu-Ray licensing and produce millions of them. They can include one for free at that price.

@RiceC03

Your comment couldn't be more true. For 1 grand you get liberties of a PC.

PS5 Pro? More like, PS5 NO. AAAAAAAA

@Vault_Mcfly how is PlayStation dying? I feel negative about the Pro also but to say PlayStation is dying is utterly ludicrous.

Units shipped 61.8 million (as of June 30, 2024)

Worst thing is, this will be the price for the PS6.... Atleast 😬.

When a you can build a brand new PC for just a little bit more, than can be easily upgraded with new tech, this is just too high of a price. And my current PS5 does the job pretty well! I'll wait til the PS6

almost 1000 bucks Canadian for nicer graphics running at 60 fps? They didn't even show anything new that would give us a real reason to buy this thing. For that reason... I'm out.

Yep, I'll wait for the PS6

PS5 Pro Concord Bundle: Dead on Arrival Edition.

At £700 you'd think they'd at least include the vertical stand, which costs them peanuts to make.

Either way my interest disappeared at the price point and lack of disk drive. Yes most games are digital now, but many players still have physical games and aren't going to buy them twice, especially after forking out the best part of a grand for a console.

Typical snobby Sony move. They think Playstation fans will pay whatever they ask. Not I, I bought they PS4 Proand was highly disappointed. I will never buy this one.

I'm in. For all that extra performance AND a 2TB drive, worth it for me. If you are worried about the price, in the U.S. PS5s on Ebay easily sell for $300-$400, dropping the Pro price to $300-$400. Plus there should be Black Friday sales coming up. The video contained pretty much everything I wanted, including listening to Mark Cerny's soothing ASMR voice. Thumbs up!

Gaming is becoming an elite sport. Last stage of greedy capitalism. Fewer players but bigger spenders.

Just sold my launch ps5 and was thinking of getting this but at that price I think I'll pass. Aside from silent hill 2 there is nothing Playstation exclusive I want to play. I'm sticking with my series x for now.

You can easily get standard ps5 at 350$. Ps5 pro at double the cost doesn't looks like worth the investment!!!!
Quite shocked what took sony to finalise this price point.
Early to say but I feel this will not be the same success as PS4 pro at this point of time.

As long as they are still catering to the PS4 (Understandable simply due to its player install base) the PS5 is being held back and not hitting its peak abilities and so neither will the pro. Outside of the few actual PS5 exclusives.
Makes this price (plus extra for disc drive/stand) a major sticker shock.
Skipping this unless my PS5 breaks long before PS6.

Wow no disc drive, no stand, no extra controller either uses upscaling super Resolution probably to get that so called 8k that they removed from the PS5 originally. Sorry but hell no they will get there monies worth from sales only because Scalpers will buy them all up at the asking price and to Sony that's a good thing when it comes to showing the figures to shareholders that's what matters right now. Showing the shareholders not to lose faith because of the massive loss in money from Bungie over priced purchased to Concord loss and probably other coming games.

Its also crazy to ask for that when prices of day to day goods is high, fuel and in the UK bills to go up on October.

I was ps5 pro positive until I watched that.

Even Mark Cerny seemed to have a hard time talking about the differences and its all probably because he knew the price.

I'm with everyone, that price is ridiculous.

I was actually expecting a little more than ps5.

In normal times we would of seen a ps5 price cut by now and ps5 pro coming at that price point. Similar to the ps4 pro.

But 700, nearly 200 more than a ps5 is not worth a slight increase in visuals.

The crazy thing if anyone noticed was Mark cerny was confident on hitting 4k 60, the wording of it was way off.

This is dead in arrival unfortunately

$700=£536
Robbers!

Can we get a soapbox now where Sammy tells us consoles are live service and we should suck it up?

@CrustyBubbles I think that's going to be All 3 biggest problem they have to cater to the previous gen now because of console sales. PS4 hardware in the Home still outweighs the PS5 and now they may see a spike in PS5 sales this Christmas as stores/online will be probably doing some deals to see out the stock in order to get the Pro in.

Trying hard not to laugh, im all sunburnt. Can't wait for the "will you be buying a ps5 pro poll"

NOT EVEN A STAND, SONY ?? SERIOUSLY ??

If the Pro's price is close to the price of the next gen consoles, then my decision not to buy any more consoles after this gen is correct. I'm too poor and too old for this.

@MUG3NHC I'm not sure how people don't get this by now....
699$=769$ because we add VAT after

@simonandrewwil

There is a 20% VAT baked into your 699.

American 699 has no tax included at all.

@motorrik6 Sony is only making bad decisions to Playstation. I don't see a good future for the brand as a console lover.

Like I said, if the future is PC only, it's time to give up this hobby for good. I love playing videogames, but I couldn't give a ***** about GPU, CPU, RAM, I use my money for better things in life like traveling, buying a nice TV, but upgrading PC every year is not my thing. Too much money just for a "better quality" experience. I already own a laptop for work, studies etc. Console was always my way to relax after a busy day in work.

@Bez87 "The crazy thing if anyone noticed was Mark cerny was confident on hitting 4k 60, the wording of it was way off."

I noticed he said "ALMOST" at one moment, I don't remember which one. But I did hear him say something like that. Like "ALMOST as sharp as graphical settings, but with 60 fps".

Also, was I mistaken to see Howgward's Legacy in...30 FPS ? With better ray tracing, yeah, but in 30 fps. But maybe it was my stream, I don't know.

$950 Snow Pesos (Canadian Dollars) for a 45% improvement and NO disc drive included for that price?!

How bout NO!

We all thought Sony was tone-deaf when they released Concord for 40 quid, then they hiked the price up on the controllers and brought this out- without a disc drive- for double the price of a digital ps5.

I foresee a stock plunge.

This really isn’t shocking. What price point was everyone expecting?

Yeah, I'll pass on the PS5 Pro. Seriously wonder how this thing will do on the mass market. $700 plus tax is way too much and I don't see the average consumer buying into it.

A few have commented about the price of PS6. If there actually will be a 6, let's see...

Launch prices in £.
Oh, for the pedants, I added on a quid for ease of reading.

PS1 300
PS2 300
PS3 425
PS4 350
4 Pro 350
PS5 450
5 Pro 700

Ok, the original 5 is anomalous as there was a driveless model that was cheaper.

But that is a huge day one price leap, whichever way you slice it.

The initial pattern of prices being close to each other between 4, 4pro and 5, then leap to 700, seems like a PS6 launch of no less than 600. Just 'cos.

With no drive.
Or stand.
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Or power lead.

it feels like this entire console cycle is me saying that things cannot possiblly get any worse... and yet they do. sony has yet to deliver a compelling reason to own a base ps5 yet after 4 years.... they won't sell more than 10m of the pros at this price point if the ps4 pro data is anything to go by. console gaming is in a real bad place right now. it is more concerned with the tech arms race of the PC space than making actual games worth a damn. only nintendo will continue to do what matters most i suppose. with the exception of a handful of ps5 targeted games this entire cycle, there really isn't enough there to justify the buy-in.

best to avoid the ps5 altogether and see how the ps6 turns out. if it is fully backwards compatible with ps4/5, has a disc drive, reasonable price and sony goes back to basics of making good games at a reaosnable clip, then i'll bite. until then, 30 years of retro gaming is waiting for me

I'll be selling my standard PS5 along with the still sealed official Spider-Man 2 face plates for another $150-$200 to get the Pro. Not right away, but probably sometime in 2nd quarter of 2025. Don't care about no disc drive because I never used the one on the original PS5. All of my games are digital and the drive doesn't support Dolby Vision for 4K Blu-rays so I have no use for it.

That said, I'd like to see someone build a PC for $700 that has the same or better performance. When LTT did that for the og PS5, the PS5 performed better overall than the PC at the same price.

Ew 🤮

If this sells well, then expect the PS6 to be 800 or more.

Yes it's official, they have lost there F**king minds at Sony. VR2 was/is way to expensive, now this 😆 I expected over 500quid & that's to much. What happened to the traditional console business model. One system. Affordable, powerful, 5 to 6 years. This mid cycle upgrade is a piss take. So if they can charge this much for a slight refresh, how much will PS6 cost!! Are they pushing gamers to PC may as well be.

@Maubari Well, like the PSVR, the early adopters will early adopt, and then it will die.

So funny to read all the angry comments. People in here are like 'no way'.

I thought PlayStation's approach to marketing this is, except for all the accurate leaks which are free, akin to Apple's online unveilings with a slick, convincing video with the 'big three' as the main selling point. All the logical appeals wrapped into their overall pathos make for an on-the-surface enticing offer: to meet developers' wishes for computation which will enhance the fidelity and performance drastically.

I think that if you sell your PS5 and take PS5 Pro in a year when it first discounts in your country/region you could get away with a substantial upgrade for a reasonable price.

Do I want it? No, not right now. I am to dumb to register the differences and are always baffled by people who demand high frame rates. Sure, nobody likes stuttering but my capacity for noticing is just not up to par. And yet, I do like the idea of my console leveling up.

And Sony takes another big L… LMAO …. $700… WTF LOL

I was interested and can afford this, but I can't justify that much (plus a blu ray drive) when weighing it up against the benefits.

@B0udoir Yeah, most likely. What I can't figure out is WHY Sony's being so greedy? Like, do they WANT the pro to fail, because I'm fairly certain most people just don't want to spend that much money for what's essentially a slightly faster PS5.. and maybe a slightly better looking one.. and then also cutting away stuff that are there at the original model's launch.

I knew Sony was greedy, but this practice really confuses me

@Anthony_Daniels this is an unpopular opinion, but price to performance ratio is still through the roof with this console at this price. It’s big time sticker shock for a lot of console gamers for sure, but in the age of $600-700 “mid-range” GPU prices, PC gamers have grown accustomed to this sort of pricing

With all respect... the price of almost two Steam Decks and literally two Switch OLEDs without adding a Portal investment? For advanced ray tracing and AI-driven upscaling? And that's in the very wake of releasing an awesome and popular game that doesn't look like it needs a tenth of this stuff.

@NoHope oh ill preorder one ,whether I'll buy it is a different matter

@Almost_Ghostly and that was with some used PC components too

Anyone know whether you can use any ultra HD blu ray drive, or do you have to buy the Sony one

Shafted in the UK again.

Should be £549.99 max.

We’ll never recover from Brexit ffs.

I love my PS5 and could afford to buy the pro if I wanted to, but there’s absolutely no chance I will. The price is absurd, especially considering they’re not actually making any games for the damn console.

I’m considering moving over to PC, or even just buying a steam deck.

@Ouch if you can use third party blu ray drive I'll probably get one

@Tdot8282 Remember the 3DO back in the SNES / Genesis "Console Wars" generation? It was also a great price-to-performance ratio, but no one bought it because of (1) the insane (at the time) price of $500 USD compared to like $150 USD for the 16-bit machines and (2) the game library wasn't anywhere near as compelling as the SNES or Genesis. I can't see Sony manufacturing more than 10 or 15 million of these in the PS5's lifecycle.

Nintendo should come out tomorrow and drop Switch 2 details at £350-£400.

I'm hoping for a PS5 ultra slim

What gets me they never even said that a game will be full native 4K at 60fps with all bells and whistle.
It could be a lot smaller upgrades than we think.
Smoke and mirrors.

I'm good with my PS5. At least i can put discs in it and i have a stand lol
Not a substantial upgrade to me, and in less than 3 years people will be talking about the PS6, so it's not worth it for me

@Jacko11 It's never going to be a straight $ to £ exchange rate conversion, US price is before their equivalent of VAT is added which varies by state. But yeah, still shouldn't be more than £650. But it is. You buy or not buy.

And absolutely nothing to do with Brexit, so no point trying to go there.

Absolutely no, never. Why would I spend 700 on an upgrade with little discernable difference.....but also give up a disc drive? I don't want a separate drive sat next to it adding clutter, it's not the same as adding an extra ssd internally which I have done.
I hope this fails, otherwise discless consoles will be fast tracked.
I defend Sony a lot, I am very loyal and have owned every mainline console (no pro versions), the only other time I've really criticised is their handling of Evolution studios, but this is laughable.
Hang your head Sony

@TheOldHunter4K no you’re right adding the ps5 at 450 as it came with a drive as did all the previous consoles so is “like-for-like.” In fact you should edit the ps5 pro to 800 considering that’s the price for the drive version!

Cool, I’ll wait for PS5 Air Mini

For $700, not only should it include a disc drive, but one that can play discs from every PlayStation generation (PS1-PS5). That, in addition to the upgraded specs announced. I realize it’s a digital world nowadays, but I have 30 years worth of physical games that would likely see more action if there was an all-in-one console solution for playing them. I’m all for the latest and greatest tech but it would be nice to have the option to revisit simpler times when the mood strikes. Astro Bot seems to get it. Maybe he should be running the show.

@Mostik. So you have to add the disc drive.how much will it cost.i dont know why sony didnt have a disc ready to go.word up son

Nah. Pass bruh.

Just too expensive unfortunately

My biggest fear with the pro is that 60fps will be reserved exclusively for the PS5 Pro and we will be stuck at 30fps for the base model PS5.

Devs could get lazy, or Sony could tell them to do that out of greed.

@SterlingEyes exactly. A lot of people can afford to buy it if it was worth it but at that price it's not.

I couldn't afford it actually as the price of funeral would need to be factored in after my wife killed me 😂

Here we go again with Sony introducing something new, overpricing it, then stopping support for it and blaming the community for not caring enough.

@Dodoo
Yes, well said.

Like for like, 800 notes.

Hellfire!

In my humble opinion it should have 1tb, with a disc drive for AT MOST £600.

Damn, I have a PS5 since release. Somehow it feels like I have it only a year, and that most releases are still to come. Not even a Naughty Dog game and now there is already a Pro version...

Is anyone buying it?

@SterlingEyes I think we are seeing a tipping point towards more mainstream PC gaming. Steam Deck is fabulous. An OK gaming laptop is £800. I mean one could keep base PS5 and buy a laptop or deck and have change from the £825 Pro.

I could hypothetically buy Pro today but that doesn’t make it a good deal.

Where has ‘4 the Players’ gone? It’s pure greed.

£825 to play cross gen with more flowers. And only as 4 year shelf-life max. Wow.

Time for the cesspool of YouTube influencer/content creators to start pumping out boring PS5 Pro reveal 'personal takes', while re-uploading or regurgitating leaked State of play PS5 Pro console footage and blah blah. I'm sick of it all. lol How many goober heads do we honestly need making the same old unoriginal news/leaked footage videos?

Back then we had Game Pro, Nintendo Power, Game Fan & Electronic Gaming Monthly. 2 or 3 magazine outlets were enough, instead of these unprofessional wannabees soaking up my YouTube Wall, attempting to report the news with their half baked fake radio voice.

How laughable. Just simply depressing.

This is the fastest comments from an article from PS. Good job!

Even as a 99% digital user, I don’t see the value of this. $699 is too much, when the All digital Xbox SX is at $449.

This also denotes the industry moving to digital only products, which is fine by me, but not for many.

@Kienda at least it keeps the relationship with Sony simple. Leave.

black friday or christmas ps5 pro will come down in price for sure

Surprised that Sony didn't announce that the PS5 Pro will be shipping with a copy of Concord!

@Bobobiwan I put was and I was ment to write wasn't.

He 100% said "ALMOST" and that's what I was referring to.

He was so shakey while saying most of it, and the comparisons being shrunk down aswel and then having to point out what actually was clearer.

Honestly I think because he knew the price himself, he already knows its a impossible sell.

I've bought every single console at launch at cost.

This will be the first 1 which I will skip.

The thing is I knew what we was getting, but I was all in, but the price point doesn't justify the 220 price increase over the base console. It just doesn't.

At least ps4 pro came in at the same price as the ps4 at launch as the ps4 had a price cut.

I don't know what other people's situations are, your fine if your living at home with disposable income, but if yout like me, have kids, have to pay the bills, I have to justify what I'm paying.
549 maybe max 599.

Considering the new ps5 with disc drive is selling at 479 brand new. But 700 is ridiculous for an almost console.

I already have a PC which I spent years saving for and spending 3grand on but that was a long term investment and a multi functional piece of kit.

I just can't believe the price tag. That's it. The actual machine I saw coming bur that price. I'm good

If they know that three-quarters of players prefer performance mode anyway, why do they think enough people want to pay £700 for higher fidelity?

sony reminds me of apple very expensive products but they know there customers are dedicated to them and will be willing to pay the price..

Tbh the ridiculous price is a good thing....I know for sure I won't impulsively buy this now...if it was £500 I might have..and then I would of been pulling my hair out trying to look for differences from the base ps5 that the super fanboys tell me are there...

It's like night and day difference

@S1ayeR74 I can imagine you won't get much change out of a grand yes , they may offer 1 years sub to ps plus as an incentive

Oof, that pricing is ridiculous and also probably means next gen will be $799 minimum with no disc drive.

Yup I figured it would be priced like that. Now where is the people saying a 4070 was more expensive then this?

Anyways, it's an incredibly steep price point so I'll pass, but the design is really sleek. My launch PS5 still works fine.

Looks like I'll keep my base PS5 for the forseeable future.
I really see no reason for me to upgrade.
Most of those upgrades just sound unnecessary for my needs.

@OldGamer999 2TB.

@GreatAuk good point. 👍

@naruball yeah, I’m pre-ordering. Don’t care for discs and price isn’t an issue.

@SleeplessKnight Same for the Neo Geo. It was so ahead of its time in terms of technology, but the price was so high that people were told to go play this console in arcade places…

@CallMeDuraSouka £700 includes tax yes. It is also the same as $914 in value. So abit more than $769

I think $700 is a fair price given the world economic realities that prevent the PS5 from being reduced in price. $200 over the base PS5 makes sense, but the lack of a disc drive, even though I don't use it, is itself an unacceptable price increase, however.

The separate drive is a genius move on Sony's part from a manufacturing and business point of view, but it is not as consumer-friendly as it appears.

@themightyant chicago is 10% or 11%.

No drive, no stand and that price, think I will wait this one out. What to buy for Xmas now then?

@VaultGuy415 by the time GTA6 comes out you'll be able to get one for cheaper

£700????? Or £800 of you want a disc drive for a few extras?

Have Sony gone mad???

@B0udoir Yes exactly! How could I forget the Neo Geo?! You're bang on there bud.

@SleeplessKnight I’m not saying this thing will sell well. But it’s still a great machine at a great price. Both statements can be true.

After taxes up here in Canada, this machine will be $1047. It’s a lot of money. But it’s still considerably less money than the $3500 my 4080 laptop cost that I bought earlier this year. And I guarantee most games will run better on the PS5 Pro than my laptop.

The value IS there, but the price is still too high.

do you recall the scene in The Office, that showed a woman with two photos, she looked at the photos and replied, they are the same picture, this is how i felt in regard to PS5 Pro

@Jswift56 you love the confidence in Sony. I love your dog. Looks like a really good boy/girl.

@TheOldHunter4K yeah agreed!

At 600 with a drive I probably would have taken the plunge…

@SleeplessKnight That said, Neo Geo had some success because it was an arcade console originally. But the 3DO was indeed a total commercial flop. But damn, a Panasonic/ARM console, I feel old now

@Tdot8282 Agreed. It is after all an optional upgrade for those who want the best performance on console. For me It's about $100 too high for what you get. I think the 2TB SSD is the main culprit for the price. It's so easy to just buy and install an aftermarket M.2 drive to expand the storage I don't see why they upped the internal storage from 1TB to 2.

There is 0 chance I'm paying £700 for a ps5....

Knack 3 bundle announced?

@LazyLombax nice! Hope you enjoy it.

@themightyant chicago isn't the only place with it at 10.25% or even 11%.

https://www.avalara.com/taxrates/en/state-rates/illinois/cities/chicago.html

https://www.avalara.com/taxrates/en/state-rates.html

Stop mentioning the price! This isn't for everyone! The PS5 wasn't exactly cheap either becuase it was out of stock everywhere & people were selling them for double! This is exactly what I wanted! It will sell out easily. Like I said before it's NOT for everyone! It's for me people like me with plenty of disposable income. I'm sorry of you can't afford one but what's not my problem. This is a great release from Sony. Well done

@Pranwell Oh, you'll def be able to pick one up at launch. You prob won't even have to pre-order lol These things are going to be stuck on shelves for a while and a price drop and incentives to buy one will come soon after.

@SleeplessKnight if the base PS5 price holding since launch has taught us anything, it’s that none of the internal components are getting any cheaper for Sony, so there’s no savings to pass along to the consumer.

People online are praising Nintendo for their pricing and can’t wait to see the Super Switch for $400…Nintendo has charged people the same price for a console with 2013 mobile internals…in 2024. It’s highway robbery and when the Super Switch comes out for the same price, they’re going to be praised for doing the same with 2019 mobile internals.

You’re getting a lot more with the PS5 Pro at its price than the Switch or Super Switch but the uncharted territory nature of the pricing of the Pro is making a lot of folks lose perspective on actual value.

That said, I get. It’s a big number.

I though the price gonna be $600 for ps5 pro digital and $700 for ps5 pro disc, stand included. That we're getting $700 ps5 pro with no disc and no stand is kind of crazy. Ps5 is the new $599 ps3 lol.

And all of this for what, more resolutions and framerate? I rather have more exclusives games that's not available anywhere, like ps1 to ps4 back then.

800 Euros and:

• disk drive - sold separately
• effing basic stand - sold separately
• no new games at launch, just patches for the same old titles.

Sony's lost all contact with the economic reality of our times...

They're out of their mind. 700/800 for a console without drive disc. Passing. What would ps6 cost? I think that Sony is pushing us to PC.

I almost regret that xbox is releasing their games on PS. I think that this is consequence of the lack of competitors.

@playstation1995 You have to buy it separately the disc drive. I guess I'll wait a while still have a 1080p TV. 🤣

How much is a 2 TB NVME drive i think €138. I need a discdrive that is another €100. I sure this console will drop in price or they are going to include the disc drive in the future.

@Tdot8282 The Switch 2(super switch) is still costing more then the cheapest Steam Deck and will have weaker hardware. Switch has 2014 mobile internals.

@Tdot8282 It's still a lot of money and no discdrive is really reaching.

£825 complete for a game console. Sony are off their head. Absolute joke. 😂

You're better off putting up a bit more for a decent gaming PC that will not only consistently outperform it, but come with all the versatility and extras that a game console does not have.

@nedbvai Yeah it's not really smart to praise a company for nice and diming you. For that price they should include a discdrive.

PS sammy — The teams a bunch of losers and I can do this every days commute!

Price is ridiculous. I think with the way Sony prices their products at a premium the PS6 price might be a bit ridiculous as well.

EEEWWWWWWW, 45% GPU bump? That's not even a 2070 to a 4070....it's better than a 4060 but still only half the difference to a 4070 OG. We're not even talking Supers. For $700? That's a worse rip-off than I imagined.

This thing is a dog. ConcordStation 5 .The performance seems somehow worse than the leaks, and the price.....ohh, who was it that mocked me when I said it would be $700-750? I can't remember you but if you see this: HA! HA!.

Sony has gone full Apple. They'll sell. At launch. Just like PSVR2 did. Better because it has a larger market, but a similar trajectory. The people that already know they want it will buy it, everyone else will laugh.

STAND SOLD SEPARATELY?! W.T.F.?!

I'm so done with consoles. Sony's lost the narrative and this is exactly the direction I thought they'd go. Image PS6! And Xbox drifts from strategy to strategy, with great products but you never know when they make it worse. Consoles are now extortionate, while, even if Nvidia starts gouging harder, AMD is committing to a period of cost competition to buy marketshare, so AMD GPUS are about to be value focused....a good time for budget PC gaming.

The rumors of the Pro are one of the 3 pillars that put me over the edge to just splash out and go back to PC once and for all. But part of me was looking over my shoulder to see if I threw money away and could have stayed with the kind of performance I wanted for way less with a PS5 Pro. Between the base model and the Pro and accessories, you could have built a 4070 Super rig that would run laps around this thing. Or just bought a gaming laptop for a smaller form factor and better performance. It's pure Apple in every way. $1200+stand across the generation to stay current. $1200-1500 for a 4070 rig that beats it and can be modularly upgraded. Sony's not selling value anymore, they're selling brand appeal.

Sony may have just "Done an Xbox" and harmed their future. Another embarrassing product, that will further alienate the console base and migrate them toward open platforms, while also making the next Xbox actually look viable again when it launches likely before PS6, while locking themselves into delaying PS6 longer, or further erode consumer confidence by replacing the $700 pro in a 2 year lifespan like Xbox did with 1X. What is it with these two companies? How do they both keep ripping defeat from the jaws of victory? I'm stunned, even without Jim, Sony is completely wayward.

Astrobot on PC, when?

@Anthony_Daniels Won't know without real bench testing, but a "45% effective performance increase" above the 2070 equivalent PS5 is not even close to 4070 or 3080Ti performance. 4070 is $500. And better. This thing is a joke.

@electrolite77 absolutely! All I'm seeing is people going on about the price I'm 34 when I was a kid I remember hands being like £70 the ps3 was about £600 I don't understand all the hate its a good release!

@MightyDemon82 I'll likely get a Switch 2 at some point, but I imagine that'll be $450 minimum which will be at the top-range of what I can afford, so I might be done with Switch 2, or at least done paying full price for consoles. I imagine I could still get a Switch 3 for $500 on Black Friday, but that's WAY in the future and assuming climate change hasn't rendered half of the planet uninhabitable at that point...

I’m getting a gaming PC in the next few months, so this can spin. I love all PlayStations but this is just criminal.

I’m a PS5 owner and it’s been my favorite console in years, and it’s my primary method for gaming. That said, this PS5 Pro is less compelling than the PSVR 2 which I also bought day 1. The price and no Blu Ray drive?

Maybe in 2 years after more games are optimized for the Pro, and if it’s on sale for $450, then I could see buying one. Otherwise I will just wait for a PS6.

Price wouldn't seem that outrageous if it came fully featured, with disk drive and stand.

Hard pass for now! This is a great way to kill consoles.
Sony to expensive and Xbox has no games.

I might just might go back to PC gaming and just have a Switch for handheld stuff.

@NEStalgia You said everything I was thinking, but I didn’t want to type that much on my phone.

I see a pattern here the same people who hated on a great game concord are hating on this. Sad.

@WiiWareWave switch 2 is for kids same as first one? I don't see many grown mwn playing with a switch..

I'd suggest people go and try building a PC for that price and see how reasonable that price is. I was hoping for a cheaper price as well.

But honestly, if you think this is too expensive, im very curious. With which products do you compare it with?
Cause a similar specced PC will cost more, also the "new" xbox series X coming later this year, which is also digital, is gonna be $600.

In that light, if not $700, how much do you think it should cost?

The dollar/sterling parity is disappointing with the dollar currently at 1.30 to the pound. I think some UK retailers will offer some discount on the RRP by Black Friday. Its £800 if you are buying a SECOND PS5. I for one would be interested in trading in my machine and buying a 2nd hand Blu-ray. That in practical terms reduces the cost to £500 for an upgrade.
Sony are being down the line about what this is about - not having to compromise by selecting graphic fidelity over performance. That compromise isn’t so bad, but now there is a premium option to avoid having to make it. I spent over £2k on a high end OLED television because I watch it a lot and I want a great picture. People spend £600 on a vacuum. It’s the same principle. These are not ‘toys’ but high end consumer electronics. And if you want to theoretically save a few bucks, hook your PC up to your TV, faff around with Windows and wait with your fingers crossed hoping Sony will convert its exclusives to your format, go ahead. I’d rather plug-and-play.

@LogicStrikesAgain exactly. A regular PS5 is nearly £500. What were people expecting? Sony designing a machine that was 50 quid extra? What’s the point of doing that? If you don’t value the bump, don’t buy it. But stop bitching about the economics. If you have 2 models you need clear price point differentiation. Unfortunately demand for processors and shipping costs means was are not go to see console price deflation like we have in previous generations.

@liathach PS5 Slim is £390, so PS5 Pro is £310 more

@electrolite77 this console gen is by and large forgettable if not just garbage. Nintendo seem to be the only company with any magic and on low spec hardware. It’s always about the games.
Sony are doing PS4.5 Pro for nearly a G. Whales will lap it up. For me this could be the Xbox One moment for Sony. The lack of respect here towards punters is astonishing.
Xbox just needs to go full slate as I like the games.
PC has Steam etc without the BS add-ons and endless subs. It can be a family machine for all sorts of tasks. Good value.
The fact we are comparing a mid gen refresh console with PC prices and no new games says it all.
Sony should have hired ‘Two-Tier’ Kier for the video.

"It's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them."

Not sure about the rest of the world, but here in Arizona we have a %10 sales tax. So the $700 console, $80 disc drive, and $25 stand actually make this a $900 console when all is said and done.

Last Cyber Monday I bought an ASUS TUF A1 4070 laptop for $900 at Best Buy. That purchase becomes more of a steal by the day.

@Flaming_Kaiser. Sony is clearly on drugs.word up son

@nedbvai Uh...you do realize that Switch has just as many M-Rated games as PS5, and they aren't censored up the wazzoo like they are on Sony consoles...sure they might not be as "realistic", but there's plenty of M-Rated stuff on there, and tons of T-Rated stuff too.

@wildcat_kickz You buy that, you are part of the reason Sony keeps doing this *****... and you reward them for your arrogance and greed :/.

@playstation1995 Word.

@LogicStrikesAgain For the enthusiast market, It's not about the cost of one $700 5Pro vs a PC. It's about from 2020-2026 spending $500+$150+ decent size SSD+700+stand+subscriptions+more expensive games, AND for those that value all the games, buying the same on the Xbox side, vs just spending $1200-1600 once in 2023-2024 and getting something that's better than any of the above for the duration.

Yeah, for the masses, the PC isn't always ideal. For the enthusiasts which is who this product is aimed at, the PC is actually the cheaper option. The console's more expensive, you're just paying in installments for 6 years. With interest.

And at $700, you're between $100-300 away from a decent gaming laptop if you don't need a full rig. You can get decent PC gaming for $1k. It's not TOTL enthusiast, but it'll play your games at least as well as a PS5. With more RT. No stand needed.

People seem to look at PC because all the enthusiasts have 4090 rigs costing $3k+ and think that's all there is to PC, or look at all the netbooks with Steam accounts and think PC is mostly worse than PS5s. Core PC gaming is right in the middle. 3060s, a notch better than a SP5 are the most common card on Steam. They're like $250. 4070 is still better than 5Pro and it's $500. There's a big price range on PC. Plus many PC gamers prefer 1080p or 2k rigs running 120+fps, which is less GPU intensive than trying to run 4k and with DLSS makes it almost the same. Which is oddly what Sony is peddling here for double the money.

buying a pc instead of the ps5 pro is apple vs oranges.. there is no comparison one is console gaming other pc.. only xbox fans would say such a thing..

@MUG3NHC

Yeah, well in Europe it's €799, and here in Sweden it's gonna be like the equivalent of €820-830, at least. Sony's taking the piss here. No stand, no disc drive.. The regular PS5's been out for 4 god damn years, and they release the Pro with this price tag... Wtf... -_-

@NEStalgia I can get behind your reasoning. Its solid. Although i think people dont always realize that with pc, you still have to upgrade about every 4 years as well, which correlates with the consoles mid cycles

Like if you bought a PC with a rtx2070 at the same time the PS5 came out in 2020. You would probably be looking for a new card right about now as well.

I agree with ur points. But some of it is assuming people already bought a PS5. If not, you have the option for a $699 console or a equivalent PC but 2 or 300 dollars more expensive. Which will also need upgrading in 4 years btw.

I think the real hardcore enthousiast dsnt bother with the PS5 Pro, they buy gfx cards for $1500. Thats a whole different market

I’m good with my current PS5 I think.
£700 is a ridiculous price for a console update.

@michaelf Yeah, I'm going to buy the ps5 slim on black Friday and that'll be my console for 6 years at least. If I have to wait 4 years to buy the PS6, that's fine. I can't imagine it'll be that graphically different to the untrained eye, anyway

@Maubari Feel free to take your dollars elsewhere; I couldn't care less. I can spend my money how I like. You don't get to tell me that I'm somehow a bad person because I work my ass off to have the disposable income to afford the Pro.

Who's the worse person: the person who has the means to buy a new toy and be excited for it or the person who accuses a random stranger of "greed" because they have bad FOMO? 🤔

While I am probably not going to be purchasing one of these, I would really love to see if the increased power can consistently brute force 60 fps through the poor optimization that some games have.

To be positive, a lot of the upgrades sound like they will make games even more gorgeous for those folks who play on 4K screens. They won't mean too much for me, as I play on a 240 hz HD monitor, but I can't wait to see some of the compatible games on my friends' big TVs!

Lol I see complete meltdowns by the usual suspects, what fun!
With a base console costing just short of £500, an upspecced version with double the storage was always likely to come in expensive, and it has. Most people are well served with the base machine, which wil remain the most popular sku of course.
People with deep pockets who want the best will pay of course, but its just an expensive option, not necessary.
I will be pre ordering as soon as I can of course. 😊

I already thought it was unnecessary before I saw the price point, but now knowing the price AND that it ships without a disc drive, I've gone from general apathy to actually feeling some type of way towards Sony and thinking maybe it's time to cultivate a new hobby or two.

$700 and I still have to pay for a disc drive?

I don't care if it could double as my butler while I was playing it. That's absurd.

@LogicStrikesAgain Yeah, that's definitely true regarding upgrades, but where I think the main differences lie is if you're upgrading on the "off" cycles (when the Supers come out etc, a few years after the consoles come out) you can get a lot more value than the consoles in terms of much higher performance for the same or less money (after initial investment). As well as the game investment where your library keeps upgrading with your hardware, while on console you get into that being sometimes true, sometimes not true, will they release a patch, will they remaster, etc. And there's also the ability to buy a little more power than you need when you buy so that as the games get "more demanding" you can dial back the res or fx and rely on upscaling to maintain performance, or drop performance a bit and maintain visuals. You get a lot of flexibility in games to dial them to your hardware rather than getting one size fits all, so you can stretch your hardware longer. It blows my mind what I can run on my Legion just turning some visuals down and how much you don't miss them when you don't have them. With that you can really stretch beyond those 4 years. Enthusiasts don't, but that's just enthusiasts being enthusiasts.

But yeah, there's definitely price calculations. I think for enthusiasts, at this point, it's clear that you'll have a much better experience for similar or even less money than the consoles over the span of 10 years, with the ability to upgrade at the time of your choosing rather than in hype waves. For more casual players, yeah, the console is more convenient for sure. But the costs really blur that line, and the problem consoles have been facing is that the casual market has been largely eroded toward mobile and potato PCs anyway, leaving most of the console market being the enthusiasts. I still think a price tag like this on the pro is a misstep. The more they erode the value line of consoles, the more PC picks up....ahem....steam (I'll get my coat), and the more common that becomes the more competition in prebuild form factors will start appearing to challenge the old console format. I think they've overplayed their hand pretty far here.

I do agree that the proposition of the Pro is better if you don't already have a PS5, though I'm not sure there's much market in that category. The kind of person who buys a $700 console is likely the same kind of person who buys a $500 console at launch. I think this is squarely aimed at existing owners. Anyone who didn't already want a PS5 for $500 is probably not going to be enthused by a new $700 model, and Sony's estimates already projected slower sales. Sure there's that trickle of sales from people debating to go PC or go console and this might tip them to console, but that still makes it woefully niche where anyone looking for real performance will look at the price to performance on offer and go PC instead, and anyone not interested in that kind of expense is more likely to stick with the base.

For $700 you'd think you'd get glass or aluminum or something at least. It's still just plastic for that money. Stick RGB on the go faster stripes or something lol.

@Titntin There's expensive and there's absurd. $700 and it doesn't even come with a disc drive, something for me that is essential since I still have a lot of physical games. I'm not even going to bother watching the video on it now as I know I'll never be getting this. It doesn't matter how much better it is over the base PS5, that's a price point that is absolutely ridiculous, especially for a console that doesn't even need to exist in the first place.

GTA 6 will sell this

@NateTheBad GRA 6 will sell it

Someone said for the PS5 Pro price you can get a digital PS5 + a Nintendo Switch or an Xbox Series S.

Wow... Well, as someone who is yet to purchase a PS5 in any form, hopefully this will bring about a price drop for the Slim. Because there's no way I'm paying that price for a console without a disc drive. Crazy.

@KilloWertz i mean realistically none of this needs to exist its a luxury hobby people can live with out with that logic. its another option for people to enjoy video games.

@NEStalgia as some one who has had a 1k pc in the past , and a over 2k pc , theres a giant difference. any one that will buy something thats only 1k, will eventually regret it or ends up dumping way more money in upgrades. people keep saying this thing isn't going to sell , i mean this thing is going to sell out. i really want one day one , and im still going to try to get it. maybe you can get a decent pc for 1.3k - 1.5k , and that's still not super future proof.