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after some very unpopular moves lately Sony has finally dropped a welcome

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surprise on their fans the eagerly awaited PS5 Pro and while most of what

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they covered was fairly predictable we've seen this one before there was one

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big surprise too bad it was a bad one

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the $700 price by the time you buy a stand

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sold separately this thing is dangerously close to double the price of

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a base PS5 and darn near what the average American is spending on their

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car payment but in my characteristic way

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here comes an unpopular take while I'm disappointed by the cost and I want

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gaming to be accessible to everyone I don't think we should be that shocked

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adjusting for inflation this isn't even Sony's most expensive console and with

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the serious lack of competition in both the gaming GPU space not to mention the

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bigger lack of competition in the console space I feel like this was sort

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spend I can't believe this is a conversation we're having but PS5 Gamers

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what would you rather do spend $700 on a new single-purpose closed

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ecosystem box that requires a subscription to connect online with a

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frankly pretty short list of true exclusives or upgrade your PC with the

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excellent Radeon 7900 XT that's right

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those are the same price and even if you don't have a PC how about a killer

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secondhand machine with a brand new 7800

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XT it's the same $700 price what is

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going on here consoles used to absolutely slam PCS when it comes to

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gaming value and what's really funny here is they still do this is something

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we explored very recently in our PS5 killer video where we did kind of kill

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it but only by cutting some pretty big Corners so then Sony in order to justify

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the PS5 Pro you better have something seriously impressive under the hood

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let's take a look the tldr of the presentation is what

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Sony broke down into the big three and number one is more RAW graphics

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rendering power they have dramatically increased the number of compute units or

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cus from 36 to 60 that levels up the GPU

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from about equivalent to a 5-year-old card to being on par with something

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modern with Sony promising a 45% uplift

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but bigger GPU doesn't tell the whole story here cuz number two is too two to

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three times better raid tracing performance and that's the one that's

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most interesting to me personally back when Sony was designing the PS5 AMD was

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realistically Generations behind NVIDIA when it came to real-time retraced

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lighting and while they haven't closed the Gap yet at least on their gpus Sony

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disclosed that the PS5 Pro will use a ray tracing engine that AMD has not yet

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shown us in their own GPU lineup so

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these two things alone could be a pretty strong onew punch to drive 4K frame

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rates up to 60 FPS while simultaneously

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improving visual Fidelity and we're not done yet number three is a new machine

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learning upscaling technology they're calling PlayStation spectral super

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resolution based on the name it's safe to say that we're looking at something

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similar to NVIDIA's dlss which allows a

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game to be rendered at a lower resolution then upscaled using a model

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that was trained on higher resolution renders I can actually imagine this

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working really well on the PS5 Pro thanks to the predictable Hardware

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platform not to mention the relatively smaller number of games to train it on

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but of course that's all speculation on my part since Sony was very light on the

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details which was kind of a theme of the whole presentation Sony may have called

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this a technical presentation but when you compare it to the nearly hourong and

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legitimately deeply technical briefing that they gave us back in 2020 I'm

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feeling a little bit like they got the color wrong on their iconic ball-shaped

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button for starters it was less than 10 minutes long and that included the parts

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where Mark Cy was narrating over gameplay footage of remarkably older

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titles I mean In fairness I guess it is a pretty simple sales pitch that PS5 Pro

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owners will no longer need to choose between the Fidelity of a high

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resolution mode or the smoothness of a performance mode with the juice to give

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you the Best of Both Worlds at once or at least

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like both worlds with Graphics showing something like Fidelity levels of detail

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to be clear I respect that Sony is setting very realistic expectations like

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the PS4 Pro this is not a new generation

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product it's a midli cycle upgrade and

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based on the now substantiated leaks from earlier this year it looks like

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it's almost entirely focused on the GPU both the CPU and the SSD look to be

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nearly identical in terms of performance to the base model all of which makes a

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lot of sense I mean it'd be pretty dumb to push a big architectural change that

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might cause compatibility issues but as

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a technophile it also just felt like a bit of a letdown to spend the first 10%

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of the presentation going through the six key features of the original PS5 if

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you're going to ultimately leave two-thirds of them untouched and the two

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that you did upgrade are pretty much the same thing speaking of letdowns no one

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buys PlayStations for the hardware guys so what are they doing showing off a new

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console without any new games I think a

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lot of the online anger would have been mitigated if this presentation was

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punctuated with some gameplay of a new visually enticing title that isn't going

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to be recalled two weeks later I mean we've jokingly referred to the PS5 as

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the PS4 more Pro because some of the best PS5 experiences are just PS4 games

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running at higher frame rates and so I guess with no new games to speak of

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we're stuck calling the PS5 Pro the PS4 more prer all of which is fine I guess

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if it wasn't for that big sticking point the price but again I think it's an

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expectation problem the PS4 Pro when it

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launched was $400 just $100 more than its

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contemporary slim model and by the way equal to the regular PS4's launch price

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when Sony did that they set an expectation that the console will go

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down in price and the pro will slot in to replace it an expectation that's no

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longer realistic the PS5 has grown up in

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a very different economic reality than its predecessors and the Cal hard truth

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is that while Sony's Hardware costs have fallen Electronics manufacturing doesn't

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get cheaper nearly the way that it used to combine that with some other recent

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business challenges and Sony might just not be in the mood to take big losses on

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Hardware with the Assumption they're going to make it up in the near future on games so with that in mind it looks

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to me like they're just keeping the margin structure pretty much flat and

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giving us about 250 bucks worth of

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bigger SSD and GPU for about 250 bucks

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so what do you want well more competition probably I mean if Microsoft

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was bringing their aame or the switch 2

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existed Sony might be willing to get more aggressive but as it is now they

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have not only not bothered to drop pricing on the original PS5 they've

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actually increased pricing in some regions and with Sony leading the market

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I don't see that changing anytime soon so what's the good news Well if you

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watched the side-by-side footage and you couldn't tell the difference you're not

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alone and that's kind of good news if

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the visual upgrades don't mean that much to you you can just save 250 bucks and

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still buy the base model the PS5 really

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is still four years later a great

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machine for the price David the writer for this video has hundreds of hours on

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his and I think that's exactly who Sony is targeting David are are you going to

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buy one yeah predictable I can't say

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that I agree with the decision but I can't control what people spend their

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paychecks on what I can control is making sure they get their paychecks

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