Poll: *The Official PlayStation (PS5/PS5 Pro) Thread*

Will you be buying a PS5 Pro on release?

  • Yes

    Votes: 53 14.8%

  • No (not at £700 Lol)

    Votes: 206 57.4%

  • No (other)

    Votes: 81 22.6%

  • Pancake

    Votes: 19 5.3%
  • Total voters
    359
I think I'll notice quite a lot of this stuff, though the performance improvements are what tempts me the most. My bedroom isn't that big so I opted for a 55" which was an ideal size for such a room/viewing distance and when the picture is jaggy or overly soft, it's immediately noticeable. In some cases, like Rebirth, you'd have to be viewing from a different continent not to notice as the performance mode is an utter joke, it honestly looks like it upscales from 480p, only half-jokingly because I bet I'm not that far off from the actual render resolution. First time in my life I willingly chose 30fps.

I can live with some jaggies or softness anyways, what I cannot live with is some games pretending to be 60fps when they suffer from frequent 15-20fps dips. Imagine Elden Ring staying at locked 60fps most of the time and when it dips, not dropping below VRR range. It would be a huge change for me as I really want to play it again on console. If gameboost is enough for that, obviously, I won't believe for a second From are actually going to sit down and make a Pro patch.

I'm just waiting for more Pro enhancements to be announced and if the games turn out to not run all that much better, especially UE5 ones, or there are too few worthwhile upgrades, I just won't bother with the console. It's not like the base PS5 is suddenly useless, its biggest problem is having to rely on FSR for upscaling.

Everyone is super-hyped now and the changes are promising but I still need to see actual hands-on results, the Pro will only be worth it if it can solve every single of PS5's performance problems and make devs fully utilise PSSR. I still kinda fear the CPU might get in the way of consistent 60fps in future titles but we'll see.
 
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rp2000 said:
I've done the same. OG PS5 has 1tb nvme with all my ps5 games on it.

I wiill extract that from the PS5 before selling this Friday and then keep it aside till 7th Nov to install onto the new Pro. After that I'll copy them all to the internal 2tb ssd and use the nvme for PS4 games.


rp2000
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Have a 2tb m.2 drive to swap over as well, I guess it’s best to do the initial setup up of the pro first before installing the m.2 drive, or do you think installing it straight away once the pro is unboxed should be fine?
 
2StepSteve said:
One thing that doesn't get mentioned in that video, which is surprising, is viewing distance. It plays such an important role in how much benefit you are going to actually see, outside of any frame rate increases.
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Guess, but there is some real obvious improvements in some of the games, that viewing distance wouldn’t matter at all, that f1 24 game they tested had some big differences.
 
beachBOYken said:
Have a 2tb m.2 drive to swap over as well, I guess it’s best to do the initial setup up of the pro first before installing the m.2 drive, or do you think installing it straight away once the pro is unboxed should be fine?
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I'm gonna do initial setup 1st, just to confirm there is no issues with the new machine that would lead to a return etc. Then open it up and install the old NVME.

It should be fine either way, it's just to save myself the hassle of removing the NVME again if the machine is DOA or something like that.


rp2000
 
beachBOYken said:
Guess, but there is some real obvious improvements in some of the games, that viewing distance wouldn’t matter at all, that f1 24 game they tested had some big differences.
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I think the age and quality of your actual eyes is more important than viewing distance!

I just measured and I sit 2.5m away from a 65inch screen. With my contact lenses in I have very good vision, I think :D


rp2000
 
2StepSteve said:
Yeah, the F1 24 example with the RT is a staggering difference to be fair which will be seen.
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Just checked the DF clips video and the difference does seem huge, even just with YT compression. Despite being a big F1 fan, I find most of these annual F1 games very samey.

I'm tempted though, and it's on "special" on PSN store for £34.99 till tomorrow night.


rp2000
 
The difference is quite big because, contrary to what some are saying, proper ray tracing is IMMEDIATELY noticeable in a scene and you don't have to stare for an hour to notice it. It changes the perception of the whole image, adds depth and makes everything seem more realistic. It makes a gigantic difference in atmospheric horror games for example.
Takes just one look at that Monaco track in F1 to notice how flat it looks without DDGI and RTAO and all the other more minor stuff, with cars looking like they're painted onto the road because of the lack of proper shadowing.

Don't get me wrong, games are perfectly playable without RT and I don't even particularly care for every game having RT but to say it makes a negligible difference is blatantly false, it just hasn't yet had a chance to make that difference on consoles because the hardware simply isn't there yet and won't be for quite a while, even with the PS5 Pro, but we just might get a better taste of it now.

There's a resaon why fully path-traced AW2 is one of the best looking games around but path tracing is not realistically achievable on the Pro (the best they could do is RT transparent/opaque reflections and that's at 30fps still) and we're still ways off when it comes to the tech anyways.
 
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Feel bit of a dumbass, I got rid of my PS5 couple days ago and now Capcom annouce a MHW beta test :( why they couldn't just wait for Pro release weekend
 
biron_w said:

DF are impressed with the HZD remake and say it's definitely worth the £10 price tag for the upgrade. I'll be getting it.
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Watched this yesterday. 1st I thought it was for the Pro but it's talking abut changes for the standard edition.

The differences are very noticeable on the normal PS5, but at this point they should really be telling us the PS5 Pro performance modes as well (only 2 weeks to release).

I'll probably buy it anyway, for a tenner!


Edit: On a sidenote a load of my games have got large updates in the last few days. I reckon they are pushing the updates for the PS5 Pro versions of the games already!


rp2000
 
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