Consumer advice you can trust
Today’s big news fromthe other sideis that a tuned-upPS5 Prois on the way, and a base spec, Blu-ray-driveless model will set you back £700. Or $700, in Ameridollars.
That’s a lot of cheddar for a living room games box, and while us Windows lot can’t quite claim pointing and laughing privileges – speccing a 4K-capable,DIY builddesktop for seven hundred quid is certainly beyond me – the fact is that if you can get some pretty nifty PC kit for less. While still, let’s not forget, being able to play most of the PS5’sbestgames. It would not surprise me if someone from Sony’s PC division is already trying to entice Astro Bot underneath a cardboard box held up by 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 a PC build combined. But theRTX 4070 Superis still the best-value ‘run anything, at any resolution’ GPU of the current generation, writing the wrongs of the original (and underwhelming) RTX 4070 in the process. Yours for£570/$600.
Can you stop halfway up a North Wales mountain and play a PS5 Pro by the side of the road? Checkmate, Sony. What theSteam Deck OLEDlacks in terafloppiness it makes up for in portability, its lovely screen (not at all well-photographed here), and its ability to only cost£569 / $649for its top spec.
The notion that quality 4K monitors must induce financial cataclysm is a lie, likely perpetuated by Big 1080p. Get yourself the most pixels for the least money with the MSI MAG 274UPF, a£400/$370UHD screen with all the adaptive sync and high refresh rate gubbins you could want from a proper gaming monitor. Good colour and brightness performance, too.
The recent launch of the WD Blue SN5000SSDhas made it easier than ever to ram a PC full of high-capacity solid statehood. It’s one of precious few budget-minded drives with a 4TB option, enough to double the PS5 Pro’s capacity in a single stick, and with this costing£240/$300you could easily spring for another. And at least one 1TB model on the side. Too many, really.
Show your disdain for Sony’s cynical Dualsense pad price hike (it’s now up to£60/$75) by contributing to an embarrassing stock shortage. Though the downside of this, obviously, is that you’d also need to budget for buying ten new pairs of hands.
I mean,someonemust be paying£644for these things.
Eh,worth a shot.
