Why any developer would release a 30fps game with no motion blur is baffling. It’s literally unplayable, I had to sell my copy as it gave me a headache.

Someone PLEASE talk to square enix and tell them to scale it down for steam deck

I think it's important still to be critical of the price point of the Pro when you actually break down the numbers and to do so relative to the base PS5 rather than PC. The cost difference of the PS5 Digital vs the PS5 Pro (Digital) comes down to a handful of things: - Different APU: Likely the same size or slightly bigger, lower volume and on N5 vs N6). Likely ~50% more expensive at worst, something like $40 additional cost. - 18Gbps G6 RAM vs 14Gbps G6 RAM Chips: Probs ~$20 additional cost. - 2TB or SSD Chips vs 1TB: for Sony this is probs about $30. - Minor changes on the VRMs/Mainboard, Wi-Fi7, PSU & Heatsink/Thermal Interface. Let's say $20. - R&D Recoup of ~$30 over ~10mil units in 4yrs. Overall you're probably looking at a system thay costs Sony ~ $140 more. They could've forgone the SSD upgrade and relegated it to a wider release 2TB non-numbered 30th anniversary unit (which is then replaced by a standard 2TB option in a year). I also would've left off stuff like Wi-Fi7 and saved that for PS6. They could've released it at $549 Digital and $649 Disc, addressed a much wider audience and still have made a respective extra ~$50 and ~$120 (the latter considering the actual bom of an optical disc unit). Instead they went way overboard shooting for ~$200 raw profit ;and no doubt most Pro owners are gonna favour a disc drive which is another ~$50 profit on top. It's reasonable to expect a markup, but this is way beyond that. This is a special blend or corporate nerves, the old Sony arrogance making a comeback and greed. The short term money men are in charge and aiming for quick cost recoups and rapid profit to the detriment of long term effectiveness. See PSVR2 for an exaggerated example. The renewed lineup should've been more like this: $349 - PS5 Slim 1TB $399 - PS5 Slim 30th Anniversary 2TB Special Edition (Available for 1 Year) $499 - PS5 Slim 30th Anniversary 2TB Numbered Limited Edition + Stand & Special Extras (12,300 Units) $549 - PS5 Pro 1TB $599 - PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary 2TB Special Edition (Available for 1 Year) $699 - PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary 2TB Numbered Limited Edition + Stand & Special Extras (12,300 Units) $99 - Universal Disc Drive for PS5 Slim & PS5 Pro There'd perhaps be a small haircut on the base digital unit but everything up from there would still be ranging from small to significant profit margins while getting more people into the ecosystem, retaining more people in the ecosystem, improving the brand image and giving a lower barrier of entry to a higher quality experience for a wider audience. Let's not forget that while folks keep rolling out "processor chips aren't getting cheaper like they used to"; the cost reductions in the RAM chips, the SSD chips and other minor components will have knocked ~$100 off the bom in the last 4yrs. So they will have gone from straddling the break even line at launch to being in comfortably in profit. They even increased the price of the digital unit. They are selling the base PS5 units at the same or higher costs not because it's some urgent necessity but because they can just about get away with it (they're tracking just shy of PS4 despite a 50% premium). There's a reasonable middleground here where a markup can be had at an intermediate price point while still widening the audience somewhat and increasing customer satisfaction and brand respect which helps over the mid to long term; but unfortunately those short-term money men don't consider these tangible currencies and it's all about the quick bucks. The only passionate people I see at PS now are Cerny and the core hardware development teams. Along with the software guys on the SDKs. They're all doing a great job, but the studios are all over the place as of late, the heads are throwing hundreds of millions away on stuff no one wants and the higher ups seem to have no real reverance for the brand and fail to realise the immense potential of PlayStation There was a time when PlayStation and Sony in general were a prime example of a company that knew where it's bread was buttered; and an excellent eg. of a cut-throat corporation that was tempered just-so, and balanced out perfectly with execs that were genuinely invested in the company alongside the financial interest.

props for using the Super Star Wars SNES series games music.

Denuvo.

Selling another console to sell you the same game again and again and again and again

The Ps6 will defenetly get a remaster of the whole FF7 trilogy. Wait for this. Don't buy a console just to have a slightly better time with this when it's getting better anyway

Is just my opinion, but i think that Crysis 2 Remastered is looking better than Crysis 3 Remastered, and has a better textures and significantly better upgrade from the original version. Cool video!

PS5: behold fans.. our FF XVI at Graphical mode, 30 fps at 1080p medium preset.. with 360p pre-rendered scenes PS5: behold fans.. our FF XVI at Performnce mode, 45 fps at 720p low preset.. with 360p pre-rendered scenes PC: Behold Master-Race.. oh wait.. it's need some patching so we can flex our muscles I think Squere do disasters whenever they go Lol.. even thee PC can't fix their optimizations (especially with Denuvo)

Where's the PC release analysis.

Looks terrible on ps5 I agree but playable , great game

Ну все, это теперь прям рай для графодрочеров. 🤣 Всем срочно заказывать новую консольку!!! 😂 Вот только 95% пользователей обычной PS5 даже не поймут в чем разница. 🤷

How much they pay for you?

From a 43 yo gamer, watering eyes listening to this well thought off eulogy of a magical game.

I’d definitely get a PS5 Pro. I bet the availability will be terrible until next year‘s Christmas though.

Who’s here after the Days Gone Remastered State of Play September 2024 rumour?

Based on this video and what we know today regarding Starfield and 60fps we can clearly say that GTA 6 will be running perfectly fine at 60 fps on Ps5 Pro.

Whenever Sony decides to sell the pro with a disc drive, I’ll get it. Not paying $700+ disc drive + stand. Nope!

Still waiting for the god of war ragnarok pc video

They’re complaining about weird stutters and I’m here playing it on the steam deck OLED 💀

FF7 Remake PS5 version looks better on performance mode than FF7 Rebirth. It doesn't make any sense but it is what it is. Other games look great on PS5 like SM2. No need to upgrade except for this specific game.

those freezingg spikes are because of denuvo

Digital foundry is a scam itself!

Sunshine to Moonlight inhouse streaming makes every game smooth with perfect framepacing with the cost of cumulated (Controller Input, Encoding, LAN transport and Decoding) average 11ms inputlag on my Sony TV. I played Dead Space and Jedi Surviver with R5 5600 and RTX 3060 at FullHD with almost no framedropp in 80 hours of playing this two. I am suprised that til today there is no DF video to this combo.

This is to this day the best 1080p-2160p conversion I've seen on consoles. Any publishers and developers post-2021 should learn from that

Who needs that?

Having played the PS5 and PC version you guys are seriously downplaying the different the PC version is vastly superior but I have noticed a trend to sugarcoat PlayStation stuff make the largest % of your view base feel better keep Sony happy you guys need to do better and gaming deserves a Digital Foundry alternative

Will the game be better on the PS5 Pro console than in PS5 performance mode? 🤷🏽‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is the surprise.

It was great

Guys, if you don’t want the Pro, don’t buy it, but don’t be bashing people that want it. Absolutely nobody none of your business how somebody spends their money.

Man, Xbox can’t hold a cup of water! At least you can still get 300 for it.

Quigley Prairie

This makes me get a little conspiratorial. This game should not look this bad on the regular ps5. It’s almost like it’s intentional to make people want to get the pro. I’m sure this game will look amazing on my pc eventually.

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So maybe now it's only about 6 to 12 months until i can give this game a shot 😂

Weird, I played this game on PC about a month ago on a 4070 @ 1440p all settings maxed out, and was getting 70-90 fps with DLSS frame generation turned off. Did have a couple of crashes and the odd NPC doing something strange, but overall it was a great experience.

People saying that the Pro will not sell because it's expensive are insane. $1500 phones sell like hot cakes. Video cards, TVs, watches... expensive electronics have no issue selling big. This will fly off the shelves like a flash.

Despite being released pretty early in the system’s life cycle, I still gotta give it to my boy Panzer Dragoon Orta for best graphics on the console. Now with the universal acceptance of that whole visual style via Dark Souls/Elden Ring, BotW, and Shadow of the Colossus, now would be such a great time for the series to make a come back.

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This game looks so cool. I added it to my wishlist

Stiedemann Road

Totally skipping Ps5 Pro mainly because of price and this comparison just proves that the Ps5 Pro is just a bad investment at this time. You’re not getting much of an enhancement for ur buck and lets not add to the fact that no new Sony exclusives have been shown on the Ps5 Pro. I think I will just wait for Gta6 to blow $800😅

Xbox players finally eating good

They should make an arachnophobic mode optionally

I tried Demons Souls ps5 and i didnt like it and i tried bloodborne and i didnt like it. Once i retried Nioh i was like this game is awesome the combat is good and i like the different weapons. Hard but i didnt care it was fun. I will pick up the collection when it is on sale.

When are you guys releasing third party edition of this video??

denuvo is well known to cause stutters in games as it rapes your storage

Tbh, I don't understand why this game is so heavy. The graphic is not that special. It's good but not outstanding. The simulation of the world and its physics is also nothing extraordinary what would justify the HW requirements.