{"id":796458,"date":"2025-12-04T11:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/eurogamer-newscast-gdc-cautious-sense-of-hope-1-1?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:07:55","slug":"will-we-buy-playstation-5-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/will-we-buy-playstation-5-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Will we buy PlayStation 5 Pro?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/will-we-buy-playstation-5-pro.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nThis week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/newscast\">Eurogamer Newscast<\/a>, we discuss the unannounced but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-5-pro-expected-this-year-report\">widely-expected PlayStation 5 Pro<\/a>, which looks set to launch later this year. <\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-5-pro-leaked-specs-appear-online\">PS5 Pro technical specs<\/a> now out in the wild, there&#8217;s been plenty of discussion around what these might mean for PlayStation games running on Sony&#8217;s cutting-edge hardware. But even with improvements, are we tempted by what is likely to be a &pound;600 upgrade? And how has it been four years since the regular PS5 launched already?<\/p>\n<p>And yet &#8211; we are now sitting at the likely mid-point of this console generation. For some, this is the best point to be thinking about console hardware, four years after the generation began and likely around four years from the &#8220;proper&#8221; next consoles arriving. And there will be those of course still yet to upgrade from PS4 at all. Is the Pro likely to be a tempting next step? Joining me this week to discuss are Eurogamer&#8217;s Ed Nightingale and Victoria Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/eurogamer-newscast-gdc-cautious-sense-of-hope-1-1?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/eurogamer-newscast-gdc-cautious-sense-of-hope-1-1?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the unannounced but widely-expected PlayStation 5 Pro, which looks set to launch later this year. With the PS5 Pro technical specs now out in the wild, there&#8217;s been plenty of discussion around what these might mean for PlayStation games running on Sony&#8217;s cutting-edge hardware. But even with improvements, are we tempted by what is likely to be a &pound;600 upgrade? And how has it been four years since the regular PS5 launched already? And yet &#8211; we are now sitting at the likely mid-point of this console generation. For some, this is the best point to be thinking about console hardware, four years after the generation began and likely around four years from the &#8220;proper&#8221; next consoles&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/will-we-buy-playstation-5-pro\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[259,976,8712,8849,79,8767,977,8711,8673,7180,13,21,59,45,34,54,516,8851,5949,10767,4616],"class_list":["post-796458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-action-adventure","tag-baldurs-gate-iii","tag-bird-view-isometric","tag-family-friendly","tag-fantasy","tag-full-product","tag-larian-studios","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-multiplayer-cooperative","tag-newscast","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-pc","tag-ps5","tag-rpg","tag-single-player","tag-strategy","tag-strategy-turn-based-strategy","tag-switch-2","tag-the-super-mario-bros-movie-2023","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will we buy PlayStation 5 Pro? | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the unannounced but widely-expected PlayStation 5 Pro, which looks set to launch later this year. 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