PS5 Pro: Everyone complains about the price and yet the “accessories” are already sold out

Game News PS5 Pro: Everyone complains about the price and yet the “accessories” are already sold out

You take the price

We are not going to repeat the scene in detail for you. It took just a few seconds after the end of the video published by Sony in which Sony officially announced its PS5 Pro for gamers to shout out their anger on social networks. It was not because of its design, which ended up being close to that of the current machine, nor because of its characteristics, which were in line with expectations. No, it was the price of the item that shocked everyone. 800 dollars for us, 700 dollars for them, our American friends. Geoff Keighley, an EU heartthrob everything is possible To demonstrate that it really wasn’t that expensive, there was no point: he held a piece of paper in his mouth to the community, while dozens of YouTubers shouted out their dissatisfaction. What 800 dollars!

Amazing price, amazing features. Sony’s machine relies on what its designer calls “the big three“, namely a more powerful graphics processor, advanced ray tracing and PSSR, an equivalent to Nvidia’s DLSS. The machine’s GPU records a 45% improvement in rendering speed compared to our good old PS5. We are promised fluid experiences, realistic reflections with ray tracing that is calculated two to three times faster than in the past and an extraordinary amount of detail… Despite everything, gamers seem to have stuck with the price. A rarity for PlayStation: The announcement video posted on YouTube has far more “dislikes” than “likes”.. So is this PS5 Pro already ruined?

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Drive failure

There is a detail that has not escaped anyone. Despite its incredible price, the device does not offer a disc player. Those who want to enjoy their beautiful Blu-rays will have to connect the additional player, available for 120 dollars. Imagine that this essential accessory to continue having fun with your games that you have physically purchased on the PS5 Pro is currently sold out almost everywhere since Sony’s announcement. Does this mean that X/Twitter is a distorting mirror of reality and that people are buying this removable drive en masse because the PS5 Pro is going to be a huge success? Maybe. Or maybe the supplies weren’t delivered and the scalpers sensed a vein they could exploit by buying up these accessories until they were exhausted, accessories they could resell at a high price to wealthy people who would fall in love with the PS5 Pro. Only time will tell…