{"id":964987,"date":"2026-01-03T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/when-it-costs-700-who-exactly-is-the-ps5-pro-for"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:39:18","slug":"when-it-costs-700-who-exactly-is-the-ps5-pro-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/when-it-costs-700-who-exactly-is-the-ps5-pro-for\/","title":{"rendered":"When it costs \u00a3700, who exactly is the PS5 Pro for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/when-it-costs-700-who-exactly-is-the-ps5-pro-for.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sony-announces-digital-only-playstation-5-pro-costs-700\">Sony finally announced the long-rumoured PS5 Pro<\/a> in a technical presentationn hosted by Mark Cerny. The console is a more advanced version of the PlayStation 5 that boosts its graphics capabilities, and even improves backwards compatibility with some PS4 games.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the biggest catch of all is its &pound;700 price tag. What&#8217;s more, with this being a digital-only console, the &pound;100 disc drive add-on is required for physical games, not to mention the additional &pound;25 needed for the optional stand just to hold the console vertically. That&#8217;s a total of &pound;825 &#8211; without games, as well as the fancy TV necessary to really show off those extra pixels.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction so far has been overwhelmingly negative, predominantly thanks to that audacious price. Indeed, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/a-700-ps5-pro-is-an-argument-against-pro-consoles-altogether\">Eurogamer&#8217;s Chris Tapsell wrote<\/a>, the PS5 Pro is &#8220;an argument against &#8216;Pro&#8217; consoles altogether&#8221;. It certainly seems more in-line with the expectations of PC players than console players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/when-it-costs-700-who-exactly-is-the-ps5-pro-for\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/when-it-costs-700-who-exactly-is-the-ps5-pro-for\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Sony finally announced the long-rumoured PS5 Pro in a technical presentationn hosted by Mark Cerny. The console is a more advanced version of the PlayStation 5 that boosts its graphics capabilities, and even improves backwards compatibility with some PS4 games. Yet the biggest catch of all is its &pound;700 price tag. What&#8217;s more, with this being a digital-only console, the &pound;100 disc drive add-on is required for physical games, not to mention the additional &pound;25 needed for the optional stand just to hold the console vertically. That&#8217;s a total of &pound;825 &#8211; without games, as well as the fancy TV necessary to really show off those extra pixels. The reaction so far has been overwhelmingly negative, predominantly thanks to that audacious price. Indeed, as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/when-it-costs-700-who-exactly-is-the-ps5-pro-for\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[45,46],"class_list":["post-964987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-ps5","tag-sony"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When it costs \u00a3700, who exactly is the PS5 Pro for? | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yesterday Sony finally announced the long-rumoured PS5 Pro in a technical presentationn hosted by Mark Cerny. 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