Anyone wanting to place a PS5 Pro in their living room starting in November 2024 will have to dig deep into their pockets. According to Sony, the improved PlayStation 5 is expected to cost nearly 800 Euros. For comparison: The predecessor model of the Pro series cost only half at launch.
The Astro Bot is out of the bag, the PlayStation 5 Pro has finally been officially presented. I am not the only one who should have stumbled upon the price that Sony wants for the improved PS5 starting November 7, 2024, in Germany.
The PlayStation 5 Pro is supposed to cost 799.99 Euros. When the PS4 Pro hit the market on November 10, 2016, it was priced at only half, that is, 399.99 Euros. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about 490 Euros today, significantly less than the price of the new Pro.
The digital Slim version of the PS5 is currently priced at about 499.99 Euros. The standard version with a drive is available for 549.99 Euros.
Here is the trailer for the new PS5 Pro:
Luxury device for the living room
Considering that consoles were once supposed to be alternatives for avid gamers who couldn’t or didn’t want to afford a powerful PC, this is a steep price. Even more so when you add up the nearly 800 Euros with the cost of one or two games, a second DualSense controller (which just became more expensive in the stores a few hours ago), and a drive. Anyone looking to buy a PS5 Pro with a drive will have to pay around 900 Euros.
As a new PS5 customer, you should rather expect closer to 1,000 Euros. For that amount, you can also get a solid mid-range PC with an RTX 4060 Ti, an Intel Core i5, a sufficiently large SSD, and 16 GB of RAM. Or a GeForce RTX 4080, without the PC around it – GPU prices are still absurd.
Whether a PS5 Pro or a gaming PC is more worthwhile is discussed directly on MeinMMO:
High price = great performance?
The critical question now is whether it is worth spending 800 Euros on a PS5 Pro. If you have the spare cash and want to play as many games as possible at a constant 60 frames per second with improved ray tracing, you will jump on it.
In that case, you should also have a TV that is of high enough quality to make the graphical difference visible and tangible.
For everyone else, I do not see why one shouldn’t opt for the significantly cheaper PS5 at that price. The current PS5 can already display many blockbuster games like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Hogwarts Legacy, The Last of Us Part 2, or Demon’s Souls in impressive graphic quality with sufficiently good performance.
Additionally, Sony apparently was not able to link the announcement of the PS5 Pro with exciting new exclusive games that would benefit particularly from the performance of the new console. Do you think so too? Share it in the comments! More details about the luxury model can be found here: Sony shows the PS5 Pro for the first time, finally naming the price and release.
