HiGame

Last week, Sony unleashed the PS4 Pro — a mid-generation update that’s focused on serving the emerging 4K market. It’s quite a bit more powerful than the base PS4, and the one-two punch of HDR and a high-res output are sincerely impressive for a $400 box. We know that some releases actually deliver native 4K, other games will use the ingenious checkerboard rendering method to get close to 4K, and many titles won’t take advantage of the extra power at all. Those scenarios are easy enough to understand, but what about everything else? Is it even worth buying without a UHD TV?

We wanted to know how updated games look at 1080p, how PSVR benefits from a little extra juice, and how well the new hardware handles streaming and video capture. We spent about a week with our launch unit, kicked all the tires, and here’s what we saw.


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