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KING OF EXCLUSIVES!!!
By TPN on Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2018
The PS4 PRO is the latest release console from SONY. Although, it is not nearly as powerful as Microsoft's latest (Xbox One X) console it stands out and has more exclusive when it comes to games. Now you may be asking, why choose this over the switch, Xbox One X or even a PC gaming system? Here are 12 reasons why: 1) Exclusive Games.Yes, I know Steam has more exclusives than any console out there but one thing their lack is simplicity. Sometimes you will find yourself spending more money on upgrades to be able to play a game in addition to already spending $60 or more. Whereas, you would just put the disk in and download any available update then play your game on consoles. This can be frustrating as you may be unaware of the requirements listed for the game and only to realize later you can't play your game because you do not have the latest version of ( insert here) when the game comes out. When it comes to the switch? Most of their games are exclusive because of the lack of third party supports. These exclusives are nothing special. Mostly Mario or another Zelda game. I mean if you really want to play mobile games then just use your smart phone, right? Do not expect to play AAA games on the switch as it will not probably happen. So, you can forget about Call of Duty or a Battlefield game. If any a AAA game does come out for the switch, no doubt the screen resolution would be horrible mediocre at best. The Xbox One X lacks exclusives. If you want to play Games like God of war 4, Days gone, Rachet and Clank or Blood borne then you can only play these on the PlayStation 4. 2) Excellent Workmanship. More people owns more PS4s than any other consoles in the world. Ever wonder why? It is no secret that Sony makes reliable products. I have a 160GB PS3 model CECH-2501A I bought since release and you know? It still works even today. This PS3 has taken a lot of beating from fall damage to power outage and overheating, excessive dust in the vents, you name it and guess what? IT STILL WORKS. I never had to send it in for repair too. I know you might be thinking, " this is irrelevant to the PS4 PRO". My point is SONY is a reliable company that you can trust. My PS4 had suffer some water damage and I thought I would have to send it in for repair. Nope, as I am writing this it still works. Can its competitors boast of the same reliability? Remember, the red light of death? How almost 45 percent of the units had to be return for repairs. I guess that was in the past, now right? LOL! 3) Price! Even though is it not the cheapest nor most expensive well at least you get what you pay for. I mean why would you pay less for less? OR you could pay a little extra for some extra power. In the end, the decision will be in the palms of the game developers, they will decide if they want their games to run at 4K @ 60, 30 frame or 1080p @ 60 or 30 frames. My point is if game developers wants to, they can make the PS4 PRO run games at 4K native or upscale with HDR. Example, Hustle Kings runs at native 4k with HDR enable while Helldivers is upscale to 4K. The developers decide. 4) More Popular. More players mean more people online, which also indicate less waiting time to play your favorite PVP game. Including less dead game lobbies too. I mean no one wants to spend 30 minutes trying to find a match that will last 10 minutes or, so right? That is annoying! 5) Continual updates. I am not saying that its competitors do not update their systems, no but rather SONY constantly does to ensure the smooth operation of their system software and to protect its user base from hackers. SONY has recently release update 5.50 which include super-sampling. You might already be familiar with this if you own a PC gaming system. However, if you do not own a 4K TV yet then this will certainty help you. A lot. It will clear out blur and sharping the image quality in some games so that your picture quality is enhance thus making 1080p looks even better. It is pretty cool. 6) Does Not Force You To buy Gimmick To Operate. Even though it was remove and it is no longer required to operate their system but just pulling at stunt like that is scary. Remember the all-seeing eye? 7) HDD Upgrade. Yes, you can upgrade your HDD size from 1tb to 2tb. Unlike its competitor, you can actually upgrade your HDD without voiding your warranty. Even Nintendo has that. You do not have to tear open your console and in which you could potentially damage something in the process simply to change a HDD. From start to finish the whole process will take about 25 minutes (including the firmware update) to swap your HDD and the most amazing thing is? YOUR WARRANTY IS NOT VOIDED!!!! Games are getting larger and larger as developers can advantages of the PRO's capabilities. Before you know it, you are out of space. Battlefield 1 and Middle-earth: Shadow of War take almost 200gb from my system that is just two games. I recommend upgrading to a bigger size HDD. If you are planning on upgrading your PS4 PRO's HDD then make sure it is a 2.5 inch (laptop HDD, NOT 3.5-inch desktop HDD), 9.5mm (or slimmer) in size and Serial ATA (Parallel ATA is not supported). You can only upgrade up to 2tb internally as 3tb and up would exceeded the 9.5mm limit for the HDD size. 8) Friendly User Interface. It is surprisingly easy to navigate around. The user interface is not overly complicated where you constantly get lost or confuse. Nope. When I first had my PS4, it takes literally less than 30 minutes to learn about all the features and navigate throughout. Update 5.50 added some new features to the PS4 but nothing to complicated that will leave you in the dark. My motto for the PS4 is 'Simple, Powerful, Reliable". 9) PSN Plus. PSN Plus is required to play online games. However, there are a few instances where you do not. Games like Guns Up. PSN Plus is not expensive. $60 for a year. Of course, there is also the 3 months for $24.99 or the 1 month $9.99. The 1-year membership is the best option. If choose the 3 months membership, in 1-year time you will spending $100. If you choose the 1-month membership in 1-year time you will be spending $120. The 1-year option is about a 40 percent save. The choice is yours. There is also a free trial for 14 days. Anyway, you occasionally get discounts and multiple "free" games monthly if you are a PSN Plus member. Some of the games are even AAA titles. March 2018 monthly games includes two awesome games; Bloodborne & Rachet and clank. There is a bonus feature, 10gb of cloud storage to back up your save game data. 10) Support External Storage Device. If you have an old HDD or USB drive you do not have use for then you can connect it to your PS4 and format it as an external HDD to store your extra games. 11) Suspend Mode. Ever been playing a game when you look at the time, realizing you are late for work or an important meeting? Let’s say your next save is very far away and you cannot afford to lose your game progression. No problem, just put the game on suspense mode then turn off the TV. Not only will it save your game data to the cloud (if you have that enable) but you will also be able to resume your game play when you turn your PS4 on. It is just like sleep mode for PC. 12) Requests To Watch. Ever wonder why your friend in on top of the leader board and you're not? If this is, you and have accused a friend of cheating then you can request to watch a game play and then seeing that they are not guilty after all. Just that you need to practice a little bit more. As all gamers are noobs at the start of any game. The only PRO is the PS4 PRO, LOL. I'm just kidding. The game developers are the pros. Overall, If you want the best then this is the place as no one else can deny this truth Pros: 4K gaming (native or upscale) Boost mode HDR support Reliable User friendly interface Remote play AC wireless setting Super sampling Exclusive games Media player 4K photo Share play Live stream HDMI link Record game play (60 minutes max at 1080p) Capture photo (up to 4k) Custom wallpaper (new feature) Voice command 3 USB port (2 front, 1 back) Support Netflix, Hulu and more Innovative Cons: No 4K blue ray drive Cannot store video, music or photos on system Media player does support all video file Noisy fan Unable to disable DS4 bar light No account share with friends
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WTF Sony? Talk about dropping the ball.
By MacFlagg on Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2016
2016 was already an awful year and Sony just put the icing on the cake. Beware: This system is not compatible with all 4K UHD TV's. Not even 2016 models. I found this out the hard way. I own a 2016 Vizio P-Series 4K UHD TV with HDR & Dolby Vision. The PS4 Pro will not output 4K HDR, even though my TV supports it. If I want HDR, I've got to downgrade the game to 1080p. A regular PS4 can output HDR in 1080p. This is by no means just a Vizio issue. LG, Sony, and Samsung TV's are also having problems. This blows my mind. There are only a handful of 4K UHD TVs on the market right now, you'd think Sony would have made sure the PS4 Pro worked with all of them prior to launch. Moreover, some of Sony's own TV's are having issues. The PS4 screams, "half baked and rushed to market!" There are no launch games that are 'Made for PS4 Pro 1st' which are then downgraded for the PS4 Slim. Instead, games are being retrofitted with mixed results. It's mostly hard to tell any difference, aside from some games looking a little bit clearer and others having bit better coloring with HDR. Hence, there's really no game you can currently buy with this system to show off its true power. There's no consistency with how the current games use the extra power of the PS4. Some games have HDR, some don't. Some games play in native 4K, most don't. Some games allow you to increase the frame rate, others don't. Moreover, each game must be individually set up. There's no 4K Blu-Ray player, even though Sony invented the technology. They say it's because people would rather stream their 4K content. But then the Amazon app not only doesn't stream its 4K content and Netflix's 4K shows with HDR aren't being displayed in HDR. WTF? Once you get used to Marco Polo in HDR, seeing it without the enhanced color is like sandpaper to the eyes. I hope and pray the HDR issues are fixed in forthcoming update and games come out, which were built from the ground up, that truly harnesses all the new power. Until such time, I couldn't recommend anyone get this system, especially if they already own a PS4. Here's a wish for game developers: Produce games where they're locked at 60FPS, with the best possible textures, lighting effects, atmospheric effects, densest populations of objects (people, plants, animals, buildings, etc...), and maximum draw distances for 1080p. Then scale back whatever is necessary for 4K output. At 1080p, I imagine the PS4 Pro has enough horsepower to make games look almost equal to their PC counterparts. Or you could switch to 4K, which would dial the graphics down a bit, but add tremendous clarity. Then you'd have the best of both worlds. Update: 11/24/2016 As it turns out, my television is fully compatible with the PS4 Pro. It was a matter of settings. If you have a 2016 Vizio P-Series SmartCast 4K UHD TV, then here's the proper settings. On the PS4, set resolution to 2160p RGB (2160p YUV420 is a format older 4K TV's use and will not allow the PS4 to output HDR in 4K. 2160p RGB is also known as YUV422). Turn HDR to automatic. Plug PS4 into any one of the HDMI ports 1-4. DO NOT USE HDMI port 5 (Ports 1-4 are 2.0a HDMI ports, HDMI 5 is 1.4. For 4K with HDR, it must be a 2.0a HDMI Port.). On any tablet or phone, launch the Vizio SmartCast app. Nvigate to Settings/Inputs/HDMI Color Sampling, then choose the HDMI input selected for the PS4 Pro. Turn HDMI Color Subsampling ON. That's it. You should now have 4K in HDR. That being said, playing Uncharted 4, The Last of Us, Shadow of Mordor, and just today, the newly patched Assassins Creed Syndicate, its hard to see the difference. As I said before, the standard PS4 will do HDR on 4K TV and many newer models do a really good job of upscaling all by themselves. So far, the graphical differences are subtle at best and completely unnoticeable at worst. Therefore, I still can't recommend this system to anyone who already owns a PS4 and with Black Friday coming up, I'd lean towards a PS4 Slim game bundle for $250, because the PS4 Pro hasn't turned out to be $150 better and it doesn't come with a game.
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