Here's a list of the top five things wrong with the PlayStation 4 Pro, problems that might put you off from buying one.
Do you agree with them?
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
I think Sony has essentially killed scorpio by releasing the PS4 Pro. Think about it, the PS4 Pro has the benefit of being novel for 2 reasons:
1) it has a bigger power gap against existing consoles at time of its release (2-3 times more powerful than the others) AND
2) it has the novelty of introducing VR to console gamers.
When scorpio releases, it will only be (roughly) 33% more powerful than other existing consoles. (For those that arent good at math the PS4 Pro, by comparison is between 200%-300% more powerful than existing consoles)
Also by that time console gamers will already be fimiliar with VR.
So, yeah i think PS4Pro is going to really staggnate the sales of scorpio.
Barely any of these makes sense, and this article exists just for nonsense clicks.
The author's 3rd and 4th points directly and embarrassingly conflict.
3) "The boost in visuals on a regular, non-4K HD TV will likely not be worth the $400 you’ll pay for the system."
4) "is it really that hard to save $100 over a few months and wait for an opportunity to buy the PS4 Pro"
.........WHAT? Author is clueless. Double standards exposed. Is it right, or is it wrong?
On to the rest of the points:
1) This is a blatant lie about a lack of native 4K, when the PS4 Pro has an absolute capability to output the resolution natively. The author doesn't even bother to go into detail about how this is "wrong" anyway, doesn't even bother to go into detail about how the hardware-based checkerboard rendering process compares to native. Then it brings up Scorpio, as though it were more than just a single 6TF number at this point and lofty claims from a corporation that historically hasn't yet lived up to its earlier claims about the XB1, such as cloud computing making it 3-4 times more powerful.
2) This is a 100% non-gaming, non-starter that would only bring up the price of the console, and somehow this is a bad thing.... even though UHD Blu-ray media is not only sparse right now, but ridiculously expensive, and not exactly gaining traction either.
3) This talks about "needing" a 4KTV to fully benefit. How exactly does this detail how PS4 Pro gets it "wrong"? If anything it gets it right in the sense that it provides immediate benefits to those who don't yet have 4KTVs, so you aren't wasting your money when buying it and not seeing the 4K benefit. Idiot author.
4) This talks about just how "pointless" it makes another console seem, but refuses to bring up how pointless it makes the current XB1 or XB1 S considering that it's only $100 more than those consoles too and much more powerful. The author decided to bring up Scorpio in the first point, but doesn't want to bring up the other Xbox consoles in this point. Strange. That extra $100 can make all the difference if you're in the market for something like PSVR, but the author is just very simple.
5) This is a jest at how it looks "ugly" despite really having no substantial reasoning as to why that is. Seems as thought they could only think of 4 things so they just added it, pointlessly.
I agree with everything but 5. I think the Pro is absolutely gorgeous. I'm going to love seeing it on my custom wall mount like the thing's so epic it literally has the power to shift gravity.
TBH I could mention the 5 things right with the ps4 pro.
1: No competition - for a year or more.
2: It's cheap - 400 dollars for a gaming machine that if build 3 years ago would have cost 900+ dollars before tax is VALUE.
3: It doesn't separate the ps4 community. - Which would have meant low budget shitty start of gen exclusives ALL over again.
4: it offers more power. - Which everyone bitched about late last gen wanting more than 720p 30fps. "That they're now getting."
5: it's offering forward compatibility. - Offering more value than we ever thought we were getting when we bought our older games.
I really feel like every time someone writes a list about the negative aspects of things, they should REALLY attempt to think outside the box and consider the positives as well, even if they don't want to. Being intentionally ignorant helps nobody.
Rise of the tomb raider 1080p avg 50fps, or booseted visuals 30fps. Cant wait!!!
1. Doesn’t Do Native 4K Gaming
2. Doesn’t Play UHD 4K Blu-Rays
3. You Need a 4K TV to Fully Benefit
4. Makes PS4 Slim Almost Pointless
5. One of the Ugliest Designs Ever
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Funny stuff right? At 1) they even claim the Scorpio will do native 4k and something about why settle for an imitation!
1. Scorpio will be as much a native 4k machine as the PS4 Pro is, not all games will be native 4k.
2. Yeah we know already after like 50 opinion articles about it
3. You don't say?
4. Ehhh, ok
5. That's subjective
The only real one is of course #2, the UHD drive, the others are either subjective (the looks) or the same as with the Scorpio with which they compare it.