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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 could get the PS by valve without joking alright to start with we've course have our Quick Start Guide you know we do with QuickStart 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 you 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 oh 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 uh yeah that's a lot smaller it 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 they just feel nice weight it's got a whole LED strip that's what you kind of cool upfront 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 slam a third 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 that matter have had a removable hard drive oh wait that looks like screw hey there we go so you actually don't unscrew 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 now it definitely depends on the game so some games are running at native 4k and we're going to 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 cool all right so we have titanfall 2 now this is actually not a native 4k game so right now we're playing at 1440p which is being up scaled hello oh yeah she looks nice you can definitely notice the extra detail over its like guy that's not good that's not good you can notice the extra detail over something like 1080p it's at 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 1080 to 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 unlocked frame rates and higher graphics or if you're a 4k TV you can also throw in a higher resolution that makes 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 prop 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 wanna 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 requires about the same power allows you if you compare it to the slam share 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