The PS5 Pro needs to take me on a lavish holiday to make seven hundred smackers worth it

Seven hundred quid. 700 USD, before tax. Let that sink in. Just start imagining the nice things you could do, the places you could go, with that money. Yes, I love playing video games, but a new console that plays, quite literally, all the same games I already have access to? Yikes. Yes, I’m talking about the PS5 Pro, hot off of Mark Cerny’s technical presentation. The PS5 Pro will take your existing PS5 games and make them look better than ever, with PSSR AI upscaling, faster ray tracing, better performance – it’s all about making your games look better than ever. I just took a look and for the price of the PS5 Pro – minus Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Drive and vertical stand – I could buy a 17” gaming laptop with a 144hz screen, RTX 3050 GPU, and 16GB of RAM. With that little laptop I could play most games reasonably well with adjusted graphics settings.  If you throw in the price of that disc drive (sold separately), then you could go even further and get a laptop with an RTX 4060, giving you access to DLSS 3 fr