A fan render of what is likely to be Sony’s next big hardware release (Picture: Concept Creator/LetsGoDigital)
A reader is frustrated that Sony has announced far more new hardware this year than it has games and thinks the PS5 Pro is one step too far.
I’ve seen a lot of discussion recently about whether the PS5 Pro is a good idea or not for Sony. There was a letter to the Inbox, earlier in the week, that I found myself agreeing with 100%, that basically said that it was the last thing Sony should be concentrating on right now, for a number of good reasons. Officially we don’t know that they are planning a PS5 Pro (even though they have kind of hinted at it) but at this point I don’t know that anyone that would doubt they are.
For some reason Sony is more interested in making and releasing hardware at the moment than they are video games and while Spider-Man 2 has been their only really big name game of the year we’ve had the DualSense Edge, the PlayStation VR2, the PS5 Slim, and the PlayStation Portal in 2023, all of which are highly expensive.
That’s fine, I guess, none of them are essential and if you’ve got the money to spend on them then fine, but in the middle of all that could Sony really not have found the time to at least announce a new game, or maybe even release one? As was pointed out, why is the PlayStation Portal coming out without a single new portable-friendly game to act as its killer app? Are Sony suddenly short of developers or the ability to make a third party deal?
If the PS5 Pro comes out next year it will be another massively expensive hardware purchase that I cannot afford, but unlike the others it’s going to be harder to ignore. It will, presumably, make a big difference to performance modes and hopefully allow everything to run at 60fps with all the graphics options turned on.
More importantly, it will be what developers start to target when they make games. They’ll pretend everything will run normally on the base PlayStation 5, and I’m sure it will to a degree, but they’ll secretly be aiming for their games to look best on the new console, so if you haven’t got one then tough, you’re not getting the most out of your game all of a sudden.
This is exactly and precisely why I’m not a PC gamer. I don’t want to be playing my game as good as my machine can manage, I want to play it exactly the way the developer intended on exactly the same hardware that they designed it for. That is the whole point of consoles and I hate Sony and Microsoft for mudding the waters like this.
The problems with the PS5 Pro go beyond just the inherent unfairness of mid-gen console updates, because it makes Sony look like they’re a hardware-only company that are only interested in selling the latest slab of consumer electronics and don’t even bother with games anymore.
Will they suddenly unveil a bunch of new games at The Game Awards in December? Maybe, but probably not. There’s been half a dozen occasions this year where we’ve all been convinced Sony was going to announce something and they never did, I don’t see why this one should be any different.
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Maybe, possibly, they’ll announce some new games alongside the PS5 Pro but they didn’t for the PlayStation Portal, so I wouldn’t bet on that either. People say that Sony concentrating on live service games means they’re abandoning what made them successful in the first place, but they aren’t making any games at the moment, live service or not, so it doesn’t really matter.
All they’re making and talking about is new hardware and I have had enough of it, in terms of trying to pay for it and watching Sony slowly slide themselves into irrelevance.
By reader Ragnarocker
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A reader is frustrated that Sony has announced far more new hardware this year than it has games and thinks the PS5 Pro is one step too far.