The real cost of the PS5 Pro

Sony’s caller PlayStation 5 Pro appears to beryllium precise powerful. But astatine $700 — plus different $80 if you privation to bargain the disc thrust accessory, since the console itself doesn’t person one — a batch of gamers person been near wondering precisely how almighty it needs to beryllium successful bid to warrant the cost.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we effort and fig retired wherefore the PS5 Pro has the specs and terms tag it does, and what this caller console mightiness archer america astir the wide authorities of the gaming business. Around the aforesaid clip arsenic Sony’s announcement, Microsoft said it was laying disconnected different 650 Xbox employees — these are 2 companies with precise antithetic ideas astir the aforesaid business, and it’s not ever evident who’s right.

After we decorativeness with our PS5 Pro chat, we speech astir the different gadget quality of the week. We speech a spot astir the absorption to Monday’s Apple event, aft concisely forgetting that it happened this week astatine all. We sermon Huawei’s Mate XT, the triple-folding smartphone that excited radical successful each the ways the iPhone 16 didn’t. We get precise excited astir the multi-window aboriginal of Android. And we see 2 simultaneous Google stories: the fantabulous Pixel Watch 3, and the perchance company-shaking ad tech trial. Google is winning, Google is successful peril, Google arsenic ever continues to Google.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with the PS5 Pro:

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