Today's big news of The other side Is that a tune-up? PS5 Pro It's on the way, and a basic model without a Blu-ray drive will set you back £700, or $700 in US dollars.
That's a lot of cheddar for a living room gaming console, and while those of us who use Windows can't say we have point-and-laugh privileges (specify a 4K-capable model, Homemade construction I certainly can't afford to pay seven hundred pounds for a desktop PC. The thing is, if you can get a reasonably good PC for less, you can play most PS5 games on it. better gamesI wouldn't be surprised if someone at Sony's PC division was already trying to lure Astro Bot out from under a cardboard box on a stick.
An Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super
Yes, we all miss when Nvidia's XX70 graphics cards didn't cost more than the rest of the PCs combined. But RTX 4070 Super It remains the best value GPU for running anything, at any resolution, of the current generation, overcoming the failings of the original (and disappointing) RTX 4070 in the process. Yours for the taking. £570 / $600.
One more thing about Steam Deck OLED
Can you stop halfway up a mountain in North Wales and play a PS5 Pro on the side of the road? Checkmate, Sony. What the hell? OLED Vapor Deck It lacks teraflops, but makes up for it with portability, its beautiful display (not well photographed here), and its ability to cost only £569 / $649 for its superior specification.
A 4K gaming monitor (and a good one at that)
The idea that quality 4K monitors should cause financial cataclysm is a lie, likely perpetuated by Big 1080p. Get the most pixels for the least money with the MSI MAG 274UPF, a £400 / $370 UHD display with all the adaptive sync and high refresh rate you could want from a proper gaming monitor. Good color and brightness performance too.
A gaming laptop with the latest DLSS trick
Since our PlayStation-induced budget doesn't stretch to an RTX 4060 laptop, how about this? RTX 4050-MSI Thin 15 with technology One cent lessTrue to its name, it is a relatively slim gaming machine and its support for DLSS 3 The frame rate will help it achieve a surprisingly high frame rate. And, like the PS5 Pro, it has… fans? No disc drive?
Two 4TB NVMe SSDs, swapping for additional 1TB ones
The recent launch of the WD Blue SN5000 Solid State Drive has made it easier than ever to load up a PC with a high-capacity solid state drive. It's one of the few budget drives with a 4TB option, enough to double the capacity of the PS5 Pro in a single device, and at this price £240 / $300 You could easily buy another one. And at least a 1TB model separately. Too many, actually.
11 of the PS5 Pro's own controllers
Show your disdain for Sony's cynical price hike on the Dualsense controller (it now depends on… £60 / $75) contributing to an embarrassing stock shortage. Although the downside to this, obviously, is that you'd also have to budget for the purchase of ten new pairs of hands.
One of those crazy “gaming” routers that looks like a dead robot spider
I mean, someone Must be paying £644 For these things.
A decade-long RPS sponsor subscription
Hey, It's worth a try.
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