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PlayStation 5 Pro Review - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.06.24
Wed, 06 Nov 2024
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
today in the nerdy news you need to know about our playstation 5 pro review nintendo switch games will be backwards compatible on nintendo switch 2 or whatever the hell they call it and a long mystery about metal gear solid 3 has been solved of all this and more because this is kind of funny games daily I, like, choked on the inhale.
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You know what I mean? What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, November 6th, 2024. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes, 30 under 30, a.k.a. the second best baby blues in San Francisco, a.k.a. the married one at Tim Getty's.
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How you doing, Tim?
I've been better, Greg.
Rough night. Rough night. I'm right there with you.
Rough, rough. Rough everything.
We got through last night, of course. I don't need to mention it. I don't need to talk about it. But Jen and I got through the second hour of the Batman. Okay. And I like this show. I like this movie a lot more based on the Penguin now. Okay. So this is big. I want you to know. But again, just three hours. It's long. It's fucking Titanic. You know what I mean? I'm waiting.
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Chapter 2: Who is attending the New York event?
I'm very excited. It's going to be some amazing content. It's going to be a lot of good stuff. After that, the stream is the Dragon Age, the Veil Guard, continuation of Nick the Dwarf. That's right. Me and Andy are getting back into that streaming room. We are doing more Dragon Age. We are doing more Veil Guard. We are seeing what is going to happen to the one, the only, Nick, the warrior dwarf.
Of course, as I already said, if you're a kind of funny member, huh?
I didn't know he was a warrior. Has to be. Yeah, he's got that shield. He throws that shield. Ding! It's awesome. I love it. I love the way he looks so much. Yeah, and then we went back to the British accent. You know, we bopped around on what we're doing. I love the American accent. Me too, but Andy sucks. Today's Greg Way, like I said, is up. It's called Prove Me Wrong.
And thank you to our Patreon producers, Delaney Twining and Carl Jacobs. They were brought to you by Phasmophobia and BetterHelp. We'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report.
They're trying to fix this. Time for some news. Five items on the Roper Report. Fucking Christ, a baker's dozen.
You hanging in there, Barrett? We saw the thing go. No. No? Okay.
It's fucking Wednesday.
It's Wednesday, my dudes. Roper Report begins with number one, the PlayStation 5 Pro review roundup. As you can see, we have a PlayStation 5 Pro. We have two PlayStation 5 Pros. Timothy has been playing his extensively, and I want his thoughts, but before then... We will, of course, ask the Super Chat a question. Are you in or out on the PlayStation 5 Pro? I need your answers. Yes, no, and why?
Show your work. I want the why. All right, this is algebra class. Show your work in your Super Chat so you can be part of the conversation. We will turn our eyes to Michael Heim at IGN.com, which always makes me smile. I know. Michael Heim, IGN.com, who gave the PlayStation 5 Pro a 7 out of 10. Considering that the PlayStation 5 generation has largely been described as, what if the PS4 was faster?
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Chapter 3: What are the key features of the PS5 Pro?
And ultimately, there is still a choice to be made between better visuals and performance, just with a less noticeable trade-off. I hope that one day the PS5 Pro really shows off what it can do to elevate games. But for now, this is the console you should... get only if you've got cash to spare and just want to know you have the latest version of the console.
For everyone else, a standard PS5 will do just fine. Timothy Robert Geddes. You are the tech tower of kind of funny. You are the one who cares the most. Who? Me, Andy, and then Raj, to an extent. No, no, no. Raj, all the different ways, though. No, no.
All the different ways.
No. Because we have Andy.
They don't have a home theater. Andy has the PC, right? Andy's the PC enthusiast, I would say. Roger's the tinkerer.
all right roger likes to get in there roger wants the best deal you can possibly get he's in it for the love of the game right yeah and then there's me i am definitely the home theater side of it all and that does include a pc setup with all that and integrating it together which is a nightmare and a half but again it kind of goes back to if you love this stuff you're in it for the troubleshooting which just means you're a sick person and i'm very very very sick greg you are
Um, so I am the perfect audience for the PlayStation five pro and, you know, talking to Tam about this as well. I feel like in some ways he is, he owns all the consoles. Like he cares about this stuff. Um, and he cares about the game specifically that he likes. He knows how they feel. So playing them on an upgraded system, he can actually tell the difference. I feel like that's the biggest.
thing to talk about is like, it's easy to look at it and be like, it looks exactly the same. But when you know how a game feels and know how a game looks, you can tell the differences. And to Tam, he was saying, it's not really worth it. And I kind of am split on this because I feel like to put a number score on this thing, I think is very silly at this point.
I think putting numbers on consoles in general is a little bit weird because what exactly are you reviewing with it? And I could. We can always find different things to put on it and what score we'd give. In a lot of ways, I'd be like, all right, fine. I give it a 10. PS5 is awesome to me. It works great. how I need it to, and games run very well. So I'm like, cool, I'm happy.
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Chapter 4: Should current PS5 owners upgrade to the Pro?
Yeah. I think that clearly like talking about like it not being aligned with a new game. I've been saying this since we were just talking about the rumors of PS5 Pro. Like PlayStation just doesn't see this as them trying to get everyone to upgrade. They know what this product is. It's just an iterative.
solution that they're going to see as the standard going forward but it is not they're not trying to position this as a must buy item like i just think that this is getting something else out there uh into the market that over time will sell and will make sense for people um and i i think it already makes sense for some people and i feel like that is a very small group of people i am one of them um but even then like i'm saying it's just like i i
you're talking about life is strange. It's like, I'm also playing some games that don't take advantage of it and doesn't affect it at all. And I don't know when the next game that is coming out that is going to, but that's a PlayStation.
The Jones great circle.
I mean, yeah, honestly, like that, that real talk that probably is going to end up being the best way to play it on a console.
More super chats for you. Kabobs, of course, chimes in and says, no, PS five has 40 frames per second. PS six will do all this stuff. So he's going to wait for the next iteration of the PlayStation, which is understandable. I apologize. Then we got Shaggy Sasquatch. Someday, maybe after year, probably after I upgrade my me someday, maybe after year, I upgrade my TV.
But who knows how bad money is going to be after the era last night? Oh, era is what you're trying to say? I don't know. Whatever. Dear Slixlet became a member for 13 months and says, I'll likely be in for the pro when Kingdom Hearts 4 and Final Fantasy 7 R3 come. But out. And I can afford around that time. Maybe for Metal Gear Solid 3 if that tax return is good next year.
That's a great actually fucking call out, Dear Slixlet. But otherwise, I'm not much of a fidelity person. Shit. Fuck. I did not think about that. I did not think about Metal Gear Solid. Oof. That's going to be a looker. It is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's a perfect example of a game that you know would have a cinematic mode and a performance mode, and I want both.
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Chapter 5: How does the PS5 Pro compare to the original PS5?
EasyGarden916 says, I caved. Price is ridiculous and I am the problem. Now I can play Shadow of the Erd Tree in 60 frames a second. Can't afford a house anyway. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. CJ Splitson has a question. Do you think Death Stranding 2 will use Pisser because Guerrilla is using their own solution that seems better for their engine?
I mean, it has to. Well, that's the thing is I feel like they might just use their own thing for their end. I don't know what did they do for Horizon for what they did for the PS5 Pro updates. It's up to the developers. And I think that that is a good thing at the end of the day, that they get to actually use the tools how they want to.
And talking to one of the lead tech designers at Insomniac, he was saying like, yeah, we're including this experimental. And the word experimental is even in the description of it for the
cinematic pro mode or fidelity pro mode or whatever it is uh the newest fanciest 30 frames per second mode for spider-man knowing that is not going to be how people necessarily should play the game but it has all the them pushing the tech forward i'm trying different things they haven't been able to do before um using whether it's pisser or the other uh toggles available to them um so i think that that's cool that there's some fun being had there but i also just think it's good that they're able to
make the choices based on their own game, even looking at what Rebirth did. Making the versatility mode as well as there's other modes as well that I look at and I'm like, I don't understand why anyone would want this smooth mode, sharp mode, whatever. It's like, the versatility is where it's at. But yeah, I think that it's good, but we had so many conversations leading into the PS4 Pro of...
Is this going to leave other people behind? Is it going to cause problems for the devs? Did you remember that?
Yeah, of course.
How much of a discourse that was. And we're just at a point that I feel like those conversations still happen. They happen a lot with the Xbox Series X and S and so many different similar things, right? But I feel... we're at a place where this is just standard. Consoles are more similar to PCs than they've ever been. Games need to be able to work at this level low or this level high.
This is just another level higher. And in fact, I almost feel like this isn't so much another level higher. This is just actually able to do all the things at once of the previous highs.
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Chapter 6: What are the benefits of the PS5 Pro for gamers?
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It does seem, according to your wrong,
I have the Omega Nerd, J. Fulcrum, and the Omega Nerd again, that it looks like the Dragon Age, the Veil Guard... Why do I give him the Dragon Age? I'm like my mom saying the Nintendo or something. Dragon Age, the Veil Guard's patch should be tomorrow. There isn't one that's... Well, that actually worked that way. Maybe that's why I'm fucking it up.
But it's like you don't have like a headline of it, right? But it's like there's a patch coming this week confirmed by Bioware and then it's the tweet about it. But the tweet that I see doesn't say anything about the pro. But then it's like
there's the one talking about the pro enhancement looks like tomorrow and then it does the playstation blog does have ps5 pro 50 plus enhanced games available for launch november 7th and it has it listed there good yeah that's awesome again this goes back to what i'm saying i'm just like i i believe in this hardware and i believe in their support of this because they've proven it's me already with the ps4 pro and i think we're just even in a better spot now yeah like this is going to be the definitive console way to play games for the foreseeable future yeah
Number two on the Roper report, Nintendo Switch 2 will officially be backward compatible with original Switch games. We're going to read Adam Bankhurst at IGN's report. But Super Chats, I need to know, how much does this move the needle for you? Is this a big deal? Did you care about your library coming over with you? Let us know. Back to Adam Bakers.
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Chapter 7: What are the thoughts on the PS5 Pro from the community?
Nintendo, in the past, have always put some type of price cuts on their systems, and I think they're going to get the Switch 2, especially if the Switch 2 can just play Switch 1 games, which we now know, they're going to treat it, the Switch Lite and the Switch OLED, That's entry points into that ecosystem. Sure. So yeah, I think there'll be significant price drops.
And then the next thing, the Switch Lite is a fantastic system. I love it so much. Every time you let me touch that, I'm like, this is nice. It's really, really, really nice. It's so light and having the controllers actually part of the hardware so you don't get that weird loose Joy-Con feel and all that stuff. It is just such a beautiful, nice little portable system. The only issue
Because it's not OLED. And that's a huge issue for me. And there's a solution now, everybody. There's a solution. Taki Udon. He's out there making OLED screens for the Switch Lite. Oh, my God. I have mine on the way. Oh, my God. Allegedly. You're a psycho. I love it. Ten minutes to install, they claim. I'll keep you all up to date.
100%.
This is a great move on their part and makes my gaming library happy. Tim, back to you about some of the other stuff they talked about.
Yeah, man, they put out a lot of good stuff here. Like, everything they're saying, I'm like, thank God. So here we have, during their financial update call, they actually put together a pretty nice-looking deck that normally just, like, it just blocks the text.
Shits out the information.
They're just like, what the hell do other people need to do? So it's nice to see this, but... They have a slide here talking about strengthening relationships with software publishers and everyone's here. It's like Smash Brothers Ultimate. Like you look at this and it's just a full page of logos of all of the different publishers and developers that they're trying to work with on the Switch 2.
And seeing this warms my heart because I remember this slide for the Switch 1 and I remember this slide for the Wii U. And it's just been more and more to the point here where you look at it and you're like, man, this is exciting. I think that there's going to be more belief and support from third parties on Nintendo than ever before.
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