s the PS4 Pro Worth It? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin is the ps4 Pro

worth it what we're getting is kind of

like a half generation bump so unlike

something like a PS 5 which I'm sure

will be a much bigger upgrade sorry I

couldn't get the PS by valve without

joking alright start with we've course

have our Quick Start Guide you know we

do it Quick Start guides right that's

right moving on looks like some

accessories here so we have the power

cable so just like every other ps4 we

have an internal power supply so this is

all we have to worry about I also have a

micro USB cable to charge the controller

the same kind of terrible mono headset

for the ps4 we also have the slightly

redesigned ps4 controller so just like

what you get in the box with the slim

it's basically the same thing but there

a couple little tweaks like for example

the light bar has not been changed

there's a little strip on the touchpad

but basically the same controller and we

also get an HDMI cable in the Box now

comes the fun parts this it's big this

is the ps4 pro so unlike the ps4 slim

which is legitimately a lot smaller than

the original ps4 this guy is a little

beefy so the design the peaceful pro is

kind of a rockin that sort of like

triple stack Oreo look so for

comparison's sake this is a ps4 slim and

yeah that's a lot smaller this looks

kind of ridiculous this is uh about this

so taking a closer look at the ps4 pro

you know I do we have these giant power

and eject buttons which are just kind of

just feel nice weight it's got a whole

LED strip that's what you kind of cool

up front we still had the two USB 3.0

ports as well as the blu-ray drive so

unlike the Xbox 1s which supports Ultra

HD blu-ray this still has to make do

with standard HD blu-ray which is kind

of weird because you know Sony make

blu-ray so

and around back we have the power cable

HDMI you have the port for the

PlayStation camera as well as we have

optical audio out something you won't

find on the ps4 slim 1/3 USB 3 port and

the Ethernet jack so now comes the fun

part how do I tear into this so

basically all ps3 and ps4 should that

matter have had a removable hard drive

oh wait that looks like sphere hey there

we go so you actually don't let screw

this part you pull it out and now we

have our hard drive so it's still 5400

rpm so it shouldn't be any faster or

slower than the regular ps4 however just

like every other ps4 out there you could

swap this out with an SSD the ps4 pro is

the first PlayStation to support say 2/3

which actually should make a noticeable

difference if you do decide to upgrade

it with an SSD so what exactly is the

point of the ps4 Pro for $100 more than

the slim you're getting a 1 terabyte

hard drive versus 500 gigabytes however

the bigger upgrade is in the spec

department well it has a little bit of a

faster CPU on the graphics side this

thing is rocking 2.3 times the power and

what you can do with that is game at 4k

in theory so while the ps4 is definitely

targeting 1080p for the most part this

guy can handle resolutions all the way

up to 4k

no definitely depends on the game so

some games are running at native 4k and

we're gonna take a look at that in a

second but some are somewhere between

1080 and 4k and upscaling and still

other games have a specific 1080p mode

so for example you might be getting

higher frame rates here better graphics

there's a lot that the ps4 pro can

actually do one important thing to know

about the ps4 Pro is that all ps4 games

will work on the pro and all future

games will still work on the standard

ps4 the way those games work is that it

will have multiple modes so if you put

the game into a ps4 it'll run it normal

1080p however if you jump over to the

pro you will get additional options but

you don't have to worry about your ps4

being obsolete any time soon oh that was

nice

that was cool that was good alright so

we have titanfall 2 now this is actually

not a native 4k game so right now we're

playing it 1440p which is being up

scaled hello oh there she looks nice you

can definitely notice the extra detail

over that's like guy that's not guy

you can notice the extra detail over

something like 1080p it's that a massive

difference however it is noticeable for

sure next we have rise of the Tomb

Raider now this is already a great

looking game even going all the way back

to the Xbox 360 however it has been

updated with support for the ps4 Pro so

one of the options is you actually can

select different graphics settings so

here we have it on high frame rate which

is going to stay at 1080p give you a

uncapped frame rate around 60 however

you can also switch to 1080p 30 on

higher settings or you can go all the

way up to 4k this is actually really

cool

you usually don't get any kind of

graphics options on console however here

if you have a 1080p TV you can choose

between unlike frame rates and higher

graphics or if you have a 4k TV you can

also throw in a higher resolution in the

mix it's actually really cool next up we

have the Last of Us remastered now this

is a game that originally came out on

the ps3 however it's been updated now in

food ps4 but also for the ps4 pro so we

have support for HDR as well as

different graphics settings so just like

Rises the Tomb Raider if you jump into

the settings you can not only enable a

full 4k output which is actually fairly

rare most games are upscaling at least a

little bit but on top of that you can

also enable a 60 frames per second

option so depending on how you want to

play the game if you want the absolute

best graphics you can do that or if you

want to smooth the frame rate you can

switch between that to the extra part of

the ps4 Pro also comes in handy when it

comes to virtual reality so while the

normal ps4 actually doesn't surprisingly

sell a job of handling psvr the extra

power here should in theory help a lot

especially because the ps4 Pro is much

closer to something like a gaming PC as

far as performance goes now the main

issue is that most PS VR games such as

driveclub here aren't really optimized

that well for the ps4 pro now it

definitely does support it and it works

fine however I really can't tell any

kind of major difference at all between

this and the normal ps4 however that

extra power is definitely going to

enable some much higher resolution

experiences which is pretty much exactly

what psvr needs now with all that

horsepower the ps4 Pro does get a little

bit warm the top can get as hot as 45

degrees Celsius under load and the

exhaust is over 50 degrees it's not

going to be the end of the world but you

definitely want to make sure the ps4 has

plenty of access to cool air something

actually impressive is that the ps4 Pro

even though is over twice as powerful as

the launch ps4 only

quire's about the same amount of power

then why'd you if you compare it to the

slam sure this is going to be a little

bit harder on your electricity bill

however the ps4 Pro is surprisingly

efficient one thing you will notice is

that the ps4 pro can actually get a

little bit loud under gameplay now mind

you it is very similar to the original

ps4 however it's going to be louder than

something that the ps4 slam and

especially the Xbox one so is the ps4

pro worth it it kind of is actually for

$400 you are not going to find a more

powerful system out there for the same

money if you already have a ps4 this

isn't a must-have update however if you

have a 4k TV you really will be able to

notice the difference and if you don't

already have a ps4 at all this is a

serious upgrade in performance for only

$100 more as always if you guys want to

check out the ps4 Pro I'll have a link

in the description you can also check

out some of the other is it worth it

episodes including on the ps4 slim and

PlayStation VR anyway guys thank you so

much for watching and I will catch you

in the next one