Once I recovered from the shock of its high price, I realised the PS5 Pro is aimed squarely at picture-perfect pixel obsessives like me.

After testing a handful of titles, I can say that the difference is appreciable if less stark than it was between the PS4 and PS4 Pro. Here’s why splurging for the upgrade may or may not make sense for you.

Basically, if you have a gaming monitor that does G-Sync or Freesync, the PS5 Pro will benefit. The base PS5 does too, but the beefier hardware in the Pro, along with its new PSSR upscaling tech, gives you more options for how you want to apply it.

The launch day results are a mixed bag of impressive and easy to miss, but it’s next year’s games that really matter to the PS5 Pro’s success.

The popular Soulslike is a Game of the Year contender, but it pushed the base PS5 to its limits and often would exhibit heavy frame rate dips from its target 60fps. Using the PS5 Pro’s raw power, the game pushes an additional 10-15 frames in challenging scenarios.

The Sony PS5 Pro will be released on Thursday (7 November) with a hefty price tag but what's expected to be a significant boost to performance thanks to a bigger GPU and AI upscaling via PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR).

The new Sony PlayStation 5 Pro is available to pre-order right now before it’s available in-store from Thursday, 7th November 2024. It’s priced at AUD$1,199, which is nearly twice the price of the current PS5 Slim Digital (AUD$679).

Sony gears up for the launch of the PlayStation 5 Pro later this week by unveiling a new list of games set to receive PS5 Pro enhancements.