Apparently sony is working on a "PS5 Pro". Who is this even for?

I thought the big thing with these ninth gen consoles was that they were powerful enough upon release that's there's no need for a mid gen refresh this time.

sigh literally just got my PS5 like 8 months ago.

Why do gamerstm get excited about being exploited like this instead of getting mad about being ripped off?

Lol some slightly better frame rates and visuals at best.

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- That's fuckin crazy
- One game. I don't know why. I bought a PS5 with no games to buy
  
  Keep that in mind, they designed this drive to improve loading times. That's all I know!
I’ve genuinely seen 0 improvement in video games from the PS3 to the PS5. Just a waste of 2 generations of systems because you dumb ass gamers eat this shit up.

All they did was made you pay for online services to play digital downloads and the gamers licked the bathroom floor with glee.

They aren’t even making sequels, it’s just the game I played on PS3 with better graphics.
- I’ve genuinely seen 0 improvement in video games from the PS3 to the PS5
  
  This is not me standing up for the peepeepoopoo 5, just saying that's a wide enough time span where there's been a pretty noticeable amount of turnover in design tends, etc. Plenty of games from the seventh gen absolutely feel dated
  
  Bethesda: 2002>2012: Morrowind to Skyrim, huge changes in gaming
  
  Ubisoft: 2003>2013: Prince of Persia to AC: Black Flag, huge changes
  
  Rockstar: 2004>2014: GTA: SA to GTA5 , huge changes
  
  Naughty Dog: 2004>2014: Jak 3 to Last of Us, huge changes
  
  The biggest game companies are just re releasing their 7th gen games over and over again
  
  For fuckin real. Dude has some rose tinted glasses, average PS3 and 360 era games are UGLY compared to even indie games of today. Just aliased to hell.
- Just a waste of 2 generations of systems because you dumb ass gamers eat this shit up.
  
  Yes blame the consumer because we're the ones with the power here not the vampire ceos who took control of all the game companies and turned them into soulless profit machines
  
  Consumers of luxury goods can be made fun of.
it’s for professional g*mers it says it in the name
- Dr. Disrespect needs his pro ps5 because he's busy sexting underage girls.
  
  Disrespect plays on PC for easier access. Unfortunately for us all.
well obviously it is for professionals.
Who is this even for?

Their bank accounts. There's hoards of "new tech" cucks and Sony fanboys to bankroll it even if it's unnecessary. I don't normally use the word cuck as a pejorative but it's very apt here. Daddy Sony telling them it's time to spend their money, etc. etc.

You're fine, my original PS4 lasted me through the previous whole gen, our original PS5s will last us through this one.
- Sony fanboys are fucked. At least the PC masterrace freaks have a fairly open platform that allows indie devs and fan mods and stuff to thrive oretty well at different price points.
  
  At least Nintendo has a moderate level of quality in software and changes in hardware design all the time.
  
  Sony fanboys exist and their trawl every comment section to ask people why they'd want to not have a game be always online and make petitions to try to get gyro-aiming removed from a game. Just absolute dregs of gamer-freaks.
  
  Honestly, the whole camp thing is juvenile in general. I'm locked into Sony's ecosystem at this point because it's my comfort zone and I haven't had the need to be elsewhere. I adopted PC gaming very late and so never took to it (I need a controller like a little bitch). That being said, I'd rather break every one of my own toes than behave like a fanboy for any megacorp.
  
  Wait, why would sony fanboys want to make petitions to remove gyro aim? Doesn't the playstation controller have a gyro?
- Yeah. They've got me fucked if they think I'm buying any sort of pro console.
Cmon son. You already know who
- "The PS quintuple. The PS quintuple!"
I refuse to buy any new Playstations that are not black and horizontal and significantly cheaper. A white tower, not only doesn't physically fit with my setup, it will ruin the aesthetics.

Is that superficial? Yes. But I don't see a point in a new Playstation anyway.
- PS5 is horizontal and vertical, like PS2, 3, and some 4s. They also make black plates for it, both official and aftermarket.
  
  Oh, really? I didn't know either of those things. Thanks!
  
  Still not buying it though.
- Making the current generation of consoles not fit in people's entertainment centers was an extremely rare smart move by both sony and m$ actually. Trying to stuff that much exhaust heat into tiny enclosed shelves is dumb and people would absolutely have done it if it were physically possible.
The only console worth having for exclusives is nintendo, everything on sony and microshit just ends up on pc anyway.
they were powerful enough upon release that's there's no need for a mid gen refresh

Yeah and then devs decided they were gonna give up on optimisation =)
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- I make 15.75 an hour. Honestly I need to just build a low-mid range PC and get out of consoles at this point.
  
  They're going to be 600 bucks next time around and that point you might as well go PC.
  
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  Consoles are ~$500 every 7 years. Are you telling me I can have a gaming pc that plays the latest games for less than $500 every 7 years? I doubt it
- Remember when win 10 was gonna be the last OS?
  
  can you imagine how bloated that would be eventually, that was one of the scariest things microsoft has ever said
  
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I'm trying to work out a proper conspiracy theory to explain this course change. Last I saw, PS5 sales were so lackluster they didn't even wanna bother with a "Pro" model. Something something NVIDIA? Is Trump a Playstation guy? Will this improve Japanese birthrates somehow?
You'd think they'd just release one with a bigger fucking hard drive because that's literally the weak point right now. Every other issue doesn't even come close.
What even is the point of PS and Xbox?
- Exclusives? And no set up too I guess. People who buy a 500 dollar gadget and 70 dollar games aren't really strapped for cash, for sure
  
  Exclusives?
  
  Which are an anti-consumer practice. And there aren't really many exclusives nowadays, with notable ones being even rarer.
  
  People who buy a 500 dollar gadget and 70 dollar games aren't really strapped for cash, for sure
  
  I guess. But that just makes it a pointless gadget that people can do just fine without.
  
  It's cheaper than a gaming pc I would have to spend a lot more than 500 to get a pc that can run bg3 as well as my ps5 does
Don't care. Happy with my PC, Steam Link, and now Steam Deck. Sony has been an idiot company for quite a while now. Done with them.
Nerds are just the dumbest type of consumer, who will buy anything they can as long as it's got their favorite companies name on it. Any plans for a "pro" versions certainly happened during the entertainment bubble that happened during COVID, which now that it has burst, kinda makes me wonder if they won't just shelve the thing. There's also another purpose to any "pro" model in that it allows Sony to advertise any multiplatform game to play "best on PlayStation"

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