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Up close with Sony’s PS5 Pro — and the 30th Anniversary model
We’ve now gotten our own brief look at the $700 PS5 Pro, coming this November. Fair warning: it’s a very limited look indeed. Just photos, no touching yet! Given how little Sony has yet shared about its big, pricy console refresh, and the excitement for the company’s just-announced limited-edition PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection, I figure you may want a peek…
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You don’t need the 30th Anniversary PS5 Collection, but you’ll want some of that sweet grey nostalgia
The 30th anniversary of the original PlayStation console is quickly approaching. Sony is celebrating by releasing a limited edition line of PlayStation 5 consoles and accessories with a nostalgic design reminiscent of the original console. Sony first launched the original PlayStation console in Japan in December of 1994, and the electronics giant has been ramping up anniversary celebrations as we…
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The PS5 is the fanciest game console you can buy
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 52, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I swear I don’t always just share absurdly expensive gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you some expensive but excellent new gadgets, a couple of…
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Sony offers reason to spend $700 on PS5 Pro — ‘no other AMD GPUs’ have this tech
When Sony announced the $700 PlayStation 5 Pro it was easy to scoff at the super-high price (even if it’s somehow still cheaper than the PS3 at launch, which would cost $950 today according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator). However, it may be a console that we shouldn’t dismiss outright. In an interview with CNET, Sony’s Mark…
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Come pixel-peep what the PS5 Pro can maybe actually do
I think Sony might have made a mistake. Not by pricing the PS5 Pro at $700 or ditching the optical drive — it can always drop the price or bundle — but by trying to showcase the PS5 Pro’s graphical improvements using a bandwidth-limited, compressed YouTube video. I say that because I’m currently looking at a native 5.3GB video file…
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Here’s What’s New In the Latest PS5 Update
Hot off the heels of this week’s PS5 Pro announcement, Sony is seeding current PS5s with a fresh update. The next time you boot up your console to play some Astro Bot, you may notice some new features and changes as well. Welcome hub With this update, Sony is launching the “Welcome hub,” a spot on your PS5’s home screen…
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Sony’s PS5 Pro is a pricey test of next-gen consoles
The PS5 Pro’s announcement yesterday wasn’t a surprise. What was a surprise was the price: at $699.99, it debuts as Sony’s most expensive console ever. It brought back memories of the PS3’s controversial price tag, a console that when adjusted for inflation is the same $779 price point of a PS5 Pro with the additional disc drive. It’s a very…
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Gamers Are Trolling PS5 Pro’s Price Tag and for Good Reason
After spending months racked with excitement, this is what I get!? A 9-minute showcase giving us a console with improvements that can barely be called that. As a gamer worth his salt, I was eagerly waiting for the PS5 Pro only to be left wishing I wasn’t one at all. In the name of Pro, Sony gives us a few…
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Indiana Jones The Great Circle Is Here with a Release Date and a PS5 Launch
It is always a pleasant sight when two giants collide so that we can get some of the best games in history. One such result is Indiana Jones The Great Circle, a game inspired by the movie series of the same name. While we had already had a first look at the game, we now have an official release for…
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Microsoft confirms Indiana Jones is coming to PS5 after its Xbox debut
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