Verdict: Based on the specs, there are some serious benefits to buying a PS5 Pro, especially thanks to PSSR, which could be a game changer for demanding titles. On the other hand, it’s harder to make a buying decision based on some controlled game demos from titles that came out over the last five years and run just fine on a base PS5.

Michiel van der Leeuw, technical director on all the Horizon games, shows me how much smoother Horizon Forbidden West can be on the PS5 Pro, how much sharper now that it’s sampling textures that render more crisply,