Opinion: PS4 Pro is the product of an industry obsessed with disproving its inferiority to PC

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

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PS4 Pro has had the gaming community giddy for months now. With all this talk of HDR and faux-4K and the like we’ve almost abandoned our current-gen love for regular PS4s and Xbox Ones as the allure of new hardware made our eyes grow large and our current consoles feel somehow less spectacular than they are.

And while there are plenty of things to be justifiably excited for beneath the hood of this tinkered console, the changes feel less like a justifiable ‘upgrade’ and more like a console industry obsessed with the lengthening shadow of PC and the toxic topics of ‘inferiority’ and ‘master races’.

We knew this day would come, after all. Years of slimline and revamped Xbox 360s and PS3s throughout the last generation was the start (remember, the Xbox 360 had three individual designs, not to mention all the memory-based iterations), sowed the seed for the state of things to come and it’s dulled our senses to the sheer ridiculousness of it all. It all started back with the PSOne and it’s been snowballing ever since.

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming