Am I buying a PS5 Pro? Yes, here are the reasons why.
I've enjoyed so many games on my PS5. Some of my favorite games of all time
have come out on the PS5. Final Fantasy XVI, yeah, it's coming on PC,
but I've already beaten it twice on PS5, and I'm probably gonna play it again on PC.
That's why I like this machine. It's a great place to experience these games
without really worrying about making sure they're working right, making sure I'm getting
the best optimization and just go and I play.
And it's so easy, it's so quick, that's a big one. I just sit down, hit one button, within 10 seconds,
everything's turned on, everything's synced. It's just easy, you don't have to think about it.
So I'm a big fan for turning off my brain when I go home, playing console games for that reason.
Another big reason that I'm getting the PS5 Pro, I'm going to keep my regular PS5
because my partner has basically co-opted it. She's playing a ton of games now,
and console games are so much easier to share
with people that don't want to fussy-dussy with PCs.
When you play PCs, you have to, you know, turning it on and off is more of an ordeal than a console.
It's super automatic, super easy on a console.
Even just like loading into Steam, I had to explain that to her
and kind of give her a tutorial on how to use Steam and stuff.
Whereas a console, it's all right there, it's super easy. And so I like the console experience
for being able to share it. And so now specifically when I'm getting the PS5 Pro,
I have been wanting to get two PS5s.
And I know this is a very much a first-world problem. And what I was doing was I have our living room upstairs,
and then I have my game cave in the basement.
And I've wall-mounted my PS5 upstairs so that my partner can basically use that one full-time.
That's her PS5, and she's doing that. And so I've been waiting to get my own PS5,
and I was going to buy just like a Slim or whatever and do that, but PS5 Pro on the horizon
makes sense, just wait, see what it was. And so I've been waiting for months.
I've been saving my like 50 bucks every two weeks,
putting it into a little account for my PS5 Pro. Was I expecting it to be $600, not $700?
1 billion percent. Am I disappointed that I have to pay an extra hundred bucks?
Hell yeah. But not including the stand to me is an overblown issue.
What consoles have come with stands?
Name a PlayStation console that came with a stand before the PS5.
Uh-huh, they didn't. It's always been a separate thing. And so this idea that the stand is extra
is absolutely insane, especially when the PS5 does stand up pretty good on its own without the stand.
And so I feel like people are jumping on this hate bandwagon because the price is so exorbitant
and trying to focus on these semi-cogent points
and kind of bandwagoning on things that I don't think really matter.
Same with the disk drive. A lot of you watching this are PC gamers.
When was the last time you had a disk drive in your PC? When was the last time that was an issue?
We live in a different era, and I am a fan of physical media,
but it's different than it used to be.
And it's different than movies. We made that movie recently about,
don't make that video recently about why you should have physical Blu-rays.
And that's because that disk is the final version of that movie.
You're getting everything you need on that disk. And if you rip it, you're getting exactly the same
experience with or without it. Whereas physical games, it's basically just a license key.
And you put it in your console and you have to install it to your hard drive
because it can't be read fast enough. Or, or even worse, there's almost nothing on the disk
and it just downloads it anyway. And so this idea that physical media needs to be preserved
is beautiful, but we lost. It's already over.
And I don't think pretending like
consoles need a disk drive now is the right place to fight.
And you guys know me, I'm a big retro gamer. I have physical games going back all the way to,
I guess, less long now, but I used to have stuff going all the way back to the Atari 2600.
And I think that saying that the PS5 Pro needs a disk drive
or to be comparable to a PS3, which was a big argument I saw,
that it's not comparable to a PS3 because it doesn't come with a disk drive or a stand that the PS3 did not come with,
is a little unfair because they're different. The PS3 didn't come with a two terabyte SSD,
came with the price more compared to a 20 Gigabyte hard drive.
So like, it's not ever gonna be apples to apples.
And I think that my overall sentiment,
it's $100 too expensive. I wish that they were undercutting the cost
by, you know, taking a little bit of a loss,
but they don't need to. It's a niche product.
And what I found out after the video was written, the PS4 Pro sold apparently Wii U numbers.
And that's lower than I expected. Obviously the Wii U wasn't a huge success.
When you put it in the context of the PS4 family as an addition, it's like, that's pretty good.
You know, 13 to 15 million or whatever isn't bad
when you're adding it to 90 other million consoles sold.
But I think Sony identified that it is a niche product
and by pushing the price up a little bit higher, they might lose out on a little adoption,
but they're not really going to drastically move the needle.
It's gonna be like, probably Wii U numbers again is my guess.
I think that they're gearing it up for a price drop.
This is more speculatory. So I didn't want to put it in the video. My feeling is there is a PS5 and PS4 Pro price drop
that's built into these prices and that we are due for a price drop,
but they don't need to play that card yet. They're waiting till, you know,
they're on the back for a little bit. Microsoft releases something really cool and they have to sell some PS5s
or the Switch 2 comes out and they're like, all right, it's time we need a little PS5 steam,
$50 price drop. That's my guess, guess, speculation.
And that comes back to, yeah, I am probably gonna buy a PS5 Pro.
It's a little bit disappointing in Canada. If I wanted the disk drive in the stand, you know, it's like $1,200, $1,300 of my money,
literally rent for a lot of people.
And I still want it.
I have loved the PS5 games. Both Final Fantasies that came out
over the last, you know, 16 months or whatever are some of my favorite console experiences
of the last decade totally blew me away.
I haven't cried as hard with a piece of media ever
like I did with Final Fantasy XVI. 10 out of 10 for me,
it is exactly the kind of game I want to play. Same with Final Fantasy VII.
And I want to play those games in the highest possible fidelity.
Yes, they will come to PC. Everything's coming to PC. And that's another point that I'm kind of curious about.
People say that, including myself included, the PS5 doesn't have any exclusive.
And that's because most of the games are on PS4, which kind of is a bummer if it's, you know,
sandbagging the games that are coming on the PS5. But also they aren't exclusive because they're on PC.
And that's a good thing. And so having the games on PC,
is that a negative for the PS5? I'm genuinely curious what you think.
Because to me, it's a good thing that they're available on PC.
And so to then hold the PS, that against the PS5 is a little disingenuous.
I get it because in the sense of,
you don't need to own a PS5 to play those games, that's 100% true.
And you don't need a PS5 Pro. Honestly, I don't need a PS5 Pro.
If I had to choose one $1,000 PC or $1,000 console,
you bet your ass. Sorry, Sam, that's extra work.
I would choose a PC. Like there's no ifs ands or buts.
When I play multi-platform games, I'm always playing on PC. There's no reason to play them on the PlayStation.
But there is games that I do like playing on my PS5.
A lot of them are Sony First Party or, you know,
these exclusives that are coming to a console that has such a bigger adoption rate.
And that's essentially my rant. PS5 Pro's too expensive.
You don't need it. Nobody needs it. If you want to, if you have the disposable income,
you're so lucky. I'm really lucky. I just sold all my stuff. So I have a little bit of fun money to play with
on stuff that I don't really need. And some of the money from that sale
from the previous video is gonna be going towards that.
So it softens the blow. I don't know if I would have spent $1,200
or whatever, $1,100 without the disk drive, without that, because that's a lot of money.
And like I said, I was expecting 600 US, so probably like $800, $900 Canadian.
But I do think that the big problem with the showcase
is the games they showed weren't great. They were already fantastic looking games.
And Sony's done a really good job getting a lot out of the PS4 Pro and PS5.
And so to then be like, look at the foliage in the back.
It's a little bit sharper, doesn't really work. Where I think the PS5 Pro will shine
is actually in those multi-platform games where the optimization isn't optimal
or they weren't designed around this specific hardware, so they struggle a little bit.
And I think that the PS5 Pro will be a great way to play those games if you don't have a PC.
I still think a PC is a better way to play it, but if you're a hardcore PS5 gamer,
I think in that sense, it would be worth the upgrade if you play all your games on a PS5.
The multi-platform games, my guess will be the biggest uplift in that sense.
I'm very excited. Are you getting a PS5 Pro? I know a lot of you aren't.
Do you have a PS5? What do you think? Do you think that our take was too light on Sony?
Do you think we were pretty balanced? What do you think?
Am I stupid? Yeah, yeah, I know, I am. Okay, thanks for watching.
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