With the PS5 Pro closer than ever, it's no wonder those of us looking to part from our beloved launch models have been keeping a watchful eye over the PS5 Slim. Our waiting has paid off, as the disc edition PS5 Slim is available now for £424.

This is likely to be a letdown for some consumers, as surely there are people who had planned on getting some of the covers to replace the stock white ones on the PS5 Pro. Those p

Sony's new PS5 Pro lacks a vertical stand and a disc drive, unlike the PS5 Slim Standard model that retails for $499. If you were to add a vertical stand and a disc drive to the PS5 Pro to fairly compare it to the PS5 Slim Standard, its price jumps up to $810 — over $300 more than the PS5 Slim Standard.

Sony’s PS5 Pro, a $700 mid-gen upgrade of the PlayStation 5, launches later this week. And ahead of its official launch, Sony has sent over a PS5 Pro for us to play with and poke at. And while I can’t say anything (yet) about how games play or look on the new console, I can at least walk you through opening the box.

The PS5 Pro is a superb console and now the best PlayStation 5 machine available. The advancements are glorious and bring a new level of immersion and beauty to games, while also boosting performance levels to offer fluid and smooth frame rates and very high levels of image fidelity - at the same time - offering a clear advancement over the base PS5,

For example, in the PS Blog announcement post for the PS5 Pro, co-CEO Hideaki Nishino said: “Players can add an Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Drive, or swap out console covers when they become available.” This suggested to us it’d support the existing face plates, but in hindsight it now seems like the new console will be getting its own range.

Yesterday, the PlayStation 5 Pro launched. But I’ve been playing around with Sony’s most expensive console ever for the past week, and the biggest issue I have with it, besides the high price, is that its really hard to actually figure out what games run and look better on it.

Just upgraded to a PS5 Pro? These are the five games you need to play first to get a true sense of the impressive powerful Sony's new console.