{"id":372355,"date":"2025-11-11T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372355\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:58:12","slug":"is-it-worth-buying-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372355\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Worth Buying In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year ago this week, Sony launched one of its most expensive video game consoles ever: the PlayStation 5 Pro<\/a>. The company promised improved performance and visuals over the standard PS5 as well as DLSS-like upscaling. And while some games definitely benefit from the power, I\u2019ve mostly forgotten I even own a PS5 Pro.<\/p>\n

When Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro last year, it received a mixed reception. While some were excited to have a more powerful console that could run games at higher framerates, many weren\u2019t convinced it was necessary. And then Sony showed everyone the $700 price tag<\/a>, and it became even harder to justify the new console. But despite all that, I was still excited to get a PS5 Pro. I have a big ol\u2019 4K TV and I care about framerates and all the minutiae that impacts how a game looks. And over the last year, I\u2019ve enjoyed some great games on my PS5 Pro. Battlefield 6, for example, looks and runs wonderfully on Sony\u2019s beefier machine. Likewise, Death Stranding 2 looks incredibly sharp on PS5 Pro while still running flawlessly.<\/p>\n

Yet, many other games I play on my PS5 Pro either don\u2019t look or feel noticeably better, or feature no improvements at all. It doesn\u2019t help that the PlayStation Store still lacks detailed information about what PS5 Pro enhancements are included in a given game. Sometimes I have to go digging around online to find a blog or Reddit post to determine what, if anything, has changed because I\u2019m playing a game on PS5 Pro. That\u2019s not a great experience for a console that now costs $750.<\/a><\/p>\n

I can confirm that after a year of use, the PS5 Pro hasn\u2019t given me any troubles. It runs quietly, still feels snappy to use, and hasn\u2019t broken in some other way. In comparison, my base PS5\u2019s USB-C port stopped working after just a few weeks. So at the very least, the PS5 Pro seems well-built and sturdy, which is nice, I guess. But is all of that worth $750?<\/p>\n

Should you buy a PS5 Pro in 2025? <\/p>\n

After using the PS5 Pro for a year, I find it hard to recommend. While I do think there are some people out there who will get some benefit from owning a PS5 Pro\u2013mainly folks with 4KTVs who really care about performance<\/a>\u2013most people don\u2019t need Sony\u2019s more powerful console. Heck, I\u2019m a bit of a graphics snob who loves running games at 120FPS, and I often forget the PS5 Pro is sitting in front of me because games so rarely feel like they\u2019re benefiting from its enhanced specs.<\/p>\n

The lack of third-party support is disappointing, too. It\u2019s surprising how many games are still launching on the PS5 via the PlayStation Store without any PS5 Pro benefits. You\u2019d think at this point, Sony would be pushing devs and publishers to support the pricey console more. But it doesn\u2019t feel like that is the case, which I find very strange, and that makes it even harder to recommend plopping down the cash for this thing.<\/p>\n

At this point, I\u2019d suggest sticking to your PS5 (if you have one) and just enjoying it for a few more years and buying a PlayStation 6 instead when that console finally launches in the next few years, likely at a similar price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One year ago this week, Sony launched one of its most expensive video game consoles ever: the PlayStation…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":372356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18224,179310,2290,19061,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-372355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-playstation-5","9":"tag-ps5-pro","10":"tag-review","11":"tag-sony","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115533073935338929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}