Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling - eviltoast

$700, and the side by sides look barely different, from my perspective. The chat seemed to have the same opinion.

  • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Yeah. Almost no one I know buys physical anything anymore. Kinda sad to see it go. We really need to instill some better laws around ownership of digital goods.

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      8 days ago

      I occasionally still buy physical on the few day one releases I get because somehow getting that delivered to my house can be £5 cheaper or more

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      8 days ago

      I think this shift will be the end of me buying newer games, period.

      I am that person who doesn’t ever buy digital. I have not bought a single digital game thus far (I haven’t pirated a game since like 2006, either). I have certainly played some, like with the PS+ subscription I got for a year when it was pretty cheap, but I wouldn’t buy them because I can’t be sure I own them, and there’s really no way to transfer the license to resell them.

      If I can’t buy physical media, I simply won’t buy the games. Maybe I’ll use subscription services now and then, but more likely I’ll either find a way to play free or won’t play them at all and find other stuff. I want the physical media because I’m poor, and having the option to sell them in a pinch is important to me if I’m going to shell out a significant amount for something I’ll probably only play once, particularly since there won’t be a used game market to reduce my spend. I haven’t had to sell my games in a very long time, so I have some 400 discs, but it’s something of a savings option that inflates alongside currency, and sometimes much more.

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      8 days ago

      I was very close to getting a digital PS5, but I still need the drive for my old PS4 games and movies. If I were just getting into Sony now though, I imagine the story would be different.