I Don’t Need A PS5 Pro - Does Anyone?

I love my PlayStation 5, but I have no need for a PS5 Pro. The PS5 Pro was revealed in a technical showcase this week, announcing an underwheming set of specs, and a price worth revolting against. My response, though, was little more than a shrug of the shoulders.

The PS5 Pro has nothing to offer me; every new thing I learn about it only further cements my conviction that I don't need it. I may just be one player, but I suspect I'm not alone.

I snagged a PS5 pretty early in its shelf life — sometime in June 2021. I was one of the lucky few at that point, since, between a global chip shortage and a rampant scalping problem, it was functionally impossible to buy a PS5 until just recently. Those who did manage to get one had to either get excessively lucky when walking into a retail store, endlessly refresh Walmart or Amazon listings until they could add one to their cart, or wait for hours in virtual queues that didn't always secure them a place in line once orders did open up.

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These difficulties, along with the PS5's already exorbitant price, led to low sales in the earliest years of its release. As a result, many players opted to keep their PS4s, and it was only in the last couple of years that major releases (think, ) stopped releasing simultaneously on PS4, and went straight to PS5.

The chip shortage has definitively come to an end, but scalping is still a prevalent problem in almost every high-demand arena, from concert tickets to game consoles. If there really is a similar demand for the PS5 Pro, I don't need to go through the same process again.

Once I got my hands on a PS5, I vowed never to put that much effort into buying a console again, and game developers and publishers have already made it clear they'll support that decision. Although a handful of games will be PS5 Pro Enhanced, the upgraded console doesn't have any exclusive