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do you have a PlayStation 5 professional yet what you do we're late well whatever

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we're checking out the PS5 Pro and I am

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actually pretty excited about this thing I know that a lot of the coverage of the

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PS5 pro has been focused on the 200 plus

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dollar price hike but there's actually a lot of value in here that I don't know

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if Sony is getting quite enough credit for for starters there's the GPU upgrade

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the new GPU has 67% more compute units

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for an estimated 45% better Real World

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performance in games okay most people

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probably won't notice the difference but there's more we lose the disc drive

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which is actually a gigantic bummer but

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what we gain is a 2 tbte rather than 1

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tbte SSD and it wasn't even a full terabyte on the original console and we

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get another 2 gigs of ddr5 memory that is dedicated to the CPU giving us the

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enre 16 gigs of gddr6 memory for the GPU

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once again I have sequestered myself not looking at other coverage in order to

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bring you guys the freshest Impressions and I feel like my wife I thought it was

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going to be bigger they really Managed IT they made the PS5 shape after all

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this time not look completely stupid I think it looks kind of cool do people

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think it looks cool oh boy I don't have the vertical stand on yes I understand

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that the vertical stand cost what what is it 30 bucks or something like that

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which is really 30 bucks yeah I think

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this could have been included but here's an

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option don't buy it it's fine who

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cares what it's not going to fall over it's fine it's fine I'm going to go on

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bamboo handy right now and there's

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nothing but there is a PlayStation 5 slim vertical stand so whether you use a

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mail order printing service or you just find a friend that has a 3D printer or

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local maker space I believe in you I think you can figure it out let's talk

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about the key benefits here Sony I think has actually done a pretty good job of

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not overselling what the PS5 Pro is it

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uses a combination of a more powerful GPU a little bit more system memory and

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probably most importantly their new spectral super resolution which seems

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like a kind of in between AMD's own FSR

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which is their upscaling technique and/ sharpening technique and NVIDIA's deep

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learning super sampling which is an AI driven upscaling technique so Sony's is

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AI driven but doesn't seem to be quite on the level of NVIDIA's at least if

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digital foundaries coverage is to be believed which pretty good about that

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stuff it should be noted though that this is in PS5 Pro enhanced games and in

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a lot of titles you can expect more along the lines of just smoother frame

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rates at the same visual fidelity or in

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older backwards compatible titles in some cases a little bit of subtle

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upscaling so far pretty mediocre sales pitch but we haven't touched on their

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more advanced Ray tracing according to Sony they're using a new generation AMD

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Ray tracing engine that isn't even present in AMD's own dedicated gpus at

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least not yet which should result in some more impressive lighting effects

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all of this can wait for the side by side that we're going to do a little bit later first let's take a closer look at

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it physically ah yes Kensington lock HDMI 2.1 supporting up to 8K output

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though I couldn't help noticing that not only did Sony remove the 8K branding

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from the original PS5 it is also not

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present on the new PS5 Pro they talk about variable refresh rate they talk

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about 120 HZ 4K gaming and HDR but no

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mention of 8K even though technically it will output it and these new upscaling

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techniques could actually help with that power input for the what is it 390 W

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power supply I got to imagine that's overs speec for this thing just based on

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the size that's a big cooling fan okay maybe she does do 400 wats good gravy

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look at that cooler it's not that heavy though a couple more USB ports USBC this

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time with one of them being 10 gig super speed and of course our power

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button I know I mentioned this already but once again guys there is no disc

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drive and as we covered recently that is going to cost you in the longer term but

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is also probably just the future we're headed towards whether we like it or not

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oh one other minor gripe even though the size is very similar to the PS5 slim the

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plates are not intercompatibility

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a little bit of power to keep the clock accurate once the power plug is yanked

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so once these button cells die you can get kind of flaky behavior from

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computers and computers that are shaped like PlayStations upgradable SSD I still

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cannot get over that Sony didn't go proprietary you know memory stick mini

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disc they have such a long Rich history uh memory cards for the original

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PlayStation good guy Sony well bad guy Sony who did the right

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thing this time technically Sony sent this and told we're not allowed to tear

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I think the biggest difference though is in the lighting both of these are

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running in HDR but only one of them has

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lights that look like lights that are casting light like look how much more

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detailed the Shadows are on the stairs

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oh we should definitely go to Fidelity mode then that'll be a 30 FPS mode wow they

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somehow uh put even less clothing on Tifa smooth I haven't played this yet

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that's the original that's me person this is my game you don't buy the

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outfits you earn them okay that's way better but then that's 30 FPS oh gross

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oh that's say oh buddy just the ability

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to never have to play in 30fps mode that

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would be a major factor for me one thing I've seen though is people claiming that

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if you sit far enough back from your TV it doesn't make a difference so let's go

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back to Performance mode cuz I'm definitely going to notice the FPS

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difference and then let's move away from it very noticeably softer even from here

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and these are only 42in displays so this is a very very reasonable distance from

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them as soon as things are in

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motion like the lighting the lighting across his six-pack this is a cut scene

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and these G these games have really good like cut scene rendering so I'd be

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interested to see once we're in the battle how it feels he put fire on my

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body okay I get iling on the the back

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rail you're in CLE yeah I'm getting Mario and I saw a little bit of

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flickering on the stairs when we were coming into the Coliseum however I also

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saw it on that one so it seems to be just like a rendering eror of some sort

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or maybe a realistic representation of like crappy LED lighting you're not

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Marvel Sony they already sold me the game but they can't just let me play it

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Fidelity Pro still runs at 30 frames per second yeah but I think it's a native 4K

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okay but here's what I want to see is my performance Pro going to look like your

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Fidelity uh I did performance the fact that we're looking this closely tells

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you pretty much everything you need to know let's go back to gaming

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distance I mean like if I'm buying a PlayStation today anyway and I just you

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know I'm like H I don't know whatever I have A200 extra dollars burning a hole

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in my pocket sure what whatever buy a pro do you want to see your FPS mode

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versus my FPS mode you know what this is

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actually quite playable especially compared to Final Fantasy rebirth yeah

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like this is fine this is probably somewhere between

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45ish FPS wait wait wait I think it's lock 30 it looks better than 30 that's

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she she's like feel it too like she feels responsive there's no way that's

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30 FPS it's just not I I might be wrong

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I'm so console branded now and the difference between 30 and 40 is is very

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very well okay most people don't care but I can I still think it's a little

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silly to be remastering a game that's this new but I don't mind it too much

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when it's a $10 upgrade if they made me Reby it yeah I'd be freaking pissed this

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looks exactly the same let's get to the game playay yeah yeah yeah we're going

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to get to the game play motion blur off see you later thank you for the

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option that's 30 FPS for sure

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yep oh uh yeah I'm getting a little less

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Shimmer than you it's worth 200

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bucks I'm going to go down to balanced and I'm going to see if it still looks

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about the same but I'm getting way better FPS I mean I guess it depends on

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how good you are at the combat I spent a lot of time slinking around in the foliage okay David do you want to change

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yours to favor uh performance you can tell there's a bit too much of an

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oversharpening filter applied to yours the upscaling is doing some work but I

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don't know if I'd never seen this we're doing side by side cuz it's fun to

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play these kinds of games if it wasn't side by side I could not tell you which one is which and it's nice that there's

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55 plus games that are already PS5 Pro

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patched I expect that the games that are more poorly optimized are going to see

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the bigger boost whereas all these Sony first party games are all pretty

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freaking tight on the PS5 that the jump and Fidel wouldn't be worth it which is

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tough because that's why you buy a PS5 is for the Sony first party stuff yeah

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so not a bad machine you're getting the extra performance you're getting some

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quality of life improvements you're getting extra storage but when we compare the value

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proposition to the original PS5 or

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especially to the PS5 slim you can get a slim a disc drive and a portal so that

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you can play your games on the go all around your house for the price of just

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the box here you know what else you can do

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