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.

The pricey PS5 Pro has reignited one of the most heated gaming debates. Are console gamers better served investing in a gaming PC?

PlayStation's most powerful and most expensive console ever. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow gets hands on and tests the games he's already played on the prior generation. (Source: Bloomberg)

When the PlayStation 5 launched, fans expected a higher level of fidelity in games. The previous generation already pushed visuals to near Pixar-like quality and many expected that this could be the console where visuals would move up another notch thanks to ray-tracing.

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,