‘PlayStation 4 Pro’ Review, Misses And Verdict: The Best Gaming Console In The Market

By Jeff Thompson - 10 Nov '16 16:30PM

Sony has made "PlayStation 4 Pro" available for sale. The console has got significant improvement from PS4 and it is now more powerful and providing an enhanced experience of 4K gaming. The PS4 Pro is coming for a reasonable price of $399 and this is exactly $100 more than its predecessor PS4, but supports the price with power and specifications. Quite interestingly to say that the product is near perfect and Sony can relax and work on sourcing the games for the console.

PS4 Pro can display the excellent graphics of the games in 4K resolution. The users would find the graphics much better comparing to PS4 while playing some of the games. The graphics card of PS4 is AMD Radeon and it can give merely 1.84 TFLOPS graphics processing, whereas the graphics card of PS4 Pro can give 4.20 TFLOPS of processing. Also, the device is coming with standard 1 TB storage, which can contain more 4K games in it.

The PS4 Pro has additionally an optical audio output and extra USB plug at the rear. It is quite bigger than PS4 and processing have got significant improvement from 1.6GHz to 2.1GHz. The memory of PS4 Pro is GDDR5 8GB + 1GB DRAM, which gives an additional 1 GB from PS4 and enhance the performance of the device. While it plays 4K games wonderfully, it also gives 1080p devices and games an improved feeling. It is also supporting the HDR gaming that gives better graphics, color, and contrast.

The controller of PS4 Pro is found to be very handy and has not much changed from PS4. A tweak can be found in the light bar that helps to see the color light visible from the front, makes it useful in controlling multiplayer games. It also enabled to have Bluetooth communication to PS4 Pro, but latency issues can be noted.

The major drawback found with PS4 Pro is that it doesn't support 4K Blu-ray discs. If the gamers are thinking to keep a collection of Blu-ray games, they will be disappointed, though 4K games can be downloaded and played.

Altogether PS4 Pro is an excellent gaming console with amazing processing power, graphics and importantly 4K gaming. At this point of time, the device is the winner and Xbox One S is far behind considering PS4 Pro.

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