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Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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$700, and the side by sides look barely different, from my perspective. The chat seemed to have the same opinion.

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[-] ZeroTwo@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

They need to pump out more games to justify this. I see no reason to upgrade as mine already sits and collects dust. The controller is super awesome tho, use it all the time for my PC.

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[-] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Is there an eli5 on how "ai upscaling" is less (or even equally) technologically demanding than just putting in better hardware?

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

It started as good tech to make GPUs last longer, but now is a crutch that even top notch hardware like a 4090 needs to actually achieve playable performance with ray tracing at high resolutions. And that hardware is already way overpriced, imagine the price of something that could do it natively.

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[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

What game would even justify that price tag lol and no disk tray.

[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Not really on topic, but AI upscaling is no joke. It's actually very useful and saves alot processing power. Same with the extra fps, making a 30fps into a 60fps with ease.

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[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

What do I do with my PS5 discs if I buy the Pro one day? Are they just unusable? Will I be able to get a digital copy for free since I already paid them for the disc they stopped supporting?

It seems like there's no sane migration path from PS5 with disc drive to the PS5 Pro.

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[-] Cap@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MApTG1wapJA&si=6CIbRLjbfUwV29IT

Great video showing the difference of the two

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 7 points 4 months ago

I do feel for Sony's PR teams. Trying to explain the concept of visual improvements in 4K over Youtube's increasingly vaseline-smeared compression is an impossible task.

[-] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

I don't know if It turns out that I was stupid for not buying the original PS5 or holding out for a Pro one even from back then.

I was looking forward to this a lot because I could get the better version from day 1 and have a lot of games to play from taking and borrowing my brother's disc games.

I guess I'll get the XBSX for GTA VI when it comes.

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[-] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I don’t see the point in this. I’m already planning to get a PC (and a Radeon 7900 XTX will always outperform a PS5), so it’s just more money for no benefit.