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Guess we know (one reason)why MS aren't doing a pro. Can you imagine MS trying to convince people to spend that sorta money on a console.

I was hoping this would have been priced better so I'd be able to pick up a 2nd hand ps5. The wait goes on for another while

Seeing the price of the PS5 Pro might make me do something I don't want to do....

Oh I will be getting it. And my arguments are more to convince myself that its worth it. Again, this is my Champions League, my Rose of Tralee, my Oscars, etc. I don't spend money on much else, I don't have a nagging wife or spawn to siphon my fun money... still stinga a bit though...

I know it's boards but is it playing up for anyone else? Going to the latest post brings me to 2 pages after the last post.

In this thread it brings me to page 285 even though the last post is on page 283.

Yup!

Vanilla is ****.

It's already double the price of a digital PS5 at launch without adding anything else.

This is hilarious in a sad way, Sony know it will sell so can set a ridiculous price and lots of people will justify it, its like Apple removing basic ports on their phones and telling everyone why its better and they should pay more for the privilege.

Throw on a dash of AI buzzwords like every business is doing nowadays its no difference to the old talk of the cloud and what the cloud can do and the best we have seen of that so far is how good flight simulator looks.

All the astro good will shot to **** in a single presentation.

Apart from the obvious power it's adding a 2TB SSD which is a significant upgrade over the original 825GB.

A 1TB SSD upgrade for ps5 typically costs between €100 and €150 alone and it was dearer the first few years.

IMO Sony could have sold this for €699 at a profit or €799 with the disc drive included. But they decided to make it less attractive to scalpers. I reckon it'll sell at this price until at least the GTA VI launch and then they might cut a hundred.

Here's the thing with the pro if you mainly play on playstation and trade in your consoles.

You'll get about 350-400 by selling the current ps5 so this upgrade costs 400. The ps5 pro like the ps4 pro will likely retain it's value remarkably well. Let's say the PS6 launches for 800, you'll likely sell this pro for over 500 so it will cost you less then 300 to upgrade.

To me it's a no brainer. I'd rather it "cost" me this to constantly have the best hardware. And don't forget people like me sold the ps4 pro for over 300 so the original ps5 only cost 200 day 1 anyway.

I've it worked out. Sell my Series X to my nephew for €350. He's had it the last 6 months so time to buy it. I'll still have Gamepass pc should I ever want to fork out €800 on a decent GPU.

BuY PS5 Pro for €800, plus €100 for the drive. Won't need the stand as I'm a kidless adult.

Sell my PS5 to CEX for €300. Total cost of upgrading to the Pro with a disc drive: €250. Not bad. And I won't miss the SX.

FYI, the iPhone 16 was just announced. Base model is $1599.

I don't know where you pulled that iPhone price from as the Max starts at $1200, significantly less than what you state the base model is.

I still wouldn't touch the iPhone anyway, the only product that Apple make that is worth the money is the base iPad.

The iPhone isn't $1599, it's $799. There's no need to make things up just to justify your purchase. If you want to buy the Pro just buy it, nobody really cares.

I was thinking about doing something similar as I have a Series X gathering dust, but really 2 current gen consoles + €250 for one current gen console seems insane to me.

Reckon the series X will go towards the Switch 2 next year instead.