Standard flour of the consumer when buying any product rushes around three whales: what is more profitable at the price, which of the goods will be better quality and which purchase will be more expedient. Evaluating the history of the emergence of new consoles from Sony, it becomes obvious that buying a new PS4 is a choice of at least five years.

We will compare the two game consoles, released simultaneously in the PS4 dynasty: PlayStation 4 Slim and PS4 Pro - to facilitate a difficult decision. After all, these five years have already started. So, how do they differ from the base model and which one is better.

Slim

Being, in fact, a modernization of the previous version, PS4 Slim differs from PS4 in its thickness and weight (by thirty and sixteen percent, respectively). Designers presented it with rounded edges, but instead took the gloss from the case. And now he is matte.

Game console PlayStation 4 Slim

In addition, Slim to a lesser extent than the PS4, is subject to heating (about seven degrees), is ten decibels less noisy and spends almost a third less energy.

In addition to finalizing the cooling system, the touch control keys were replaced with the good old mechanical version.

Although the processor, memory and performance remained identical to the basic version, the new version has two USB 3.1 ports (instead of one 3.0) and more advanced Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (a / b / g / n / ac and 4.0 instead of b / g / n and 2.1).

Especially pleasant for the buyer is the difference between the PS4 and Slim in price.

Originally, the original appeared in price from four hundred US dollars to three hundred and fifty, and the newly released modernization starts from three hundred.

Pro

The main difference PS4 Pro in a more powerful graphics.

Its performance (4.2 TFlops instead of 1.84) is provided by the same eight-core processor, but operating at a much higher frequency (2.1 GHz instead of 1.6).

PlayStation 4 Pro Game Console

The same applies to the size of hard memory - with a constant volume, it can now be updated at a speed of 218 gigabytes per second (it was 176 GB / s).

At least one terabyte will be built-in memory.

Enhanced hardware qualities of this new model are designed to perform the main tasks: to please the user with 4K graphics, to provide him with the ability to record screenshots in this format, and in Full HD format to record game broadcasts (on other consoles only HD).

Graphics

Sony is very persistent in announcing the advanced capabilities of the Pro console in 4K and HDR television formats.

Ultra HD TV

However, it should be borne in mind that the real enjoyment of the four "K" is available only to those who have a 4K format supporting television system (and this is already the top level).

If you choose a console to buy, namely between Sony PlayStation 4 Pro or Slim, then pay attention to the following.

Even if you manage to purchase a TV system only slightly more than a thousand US dollars, then this will already be to some extent a serious financial investment. Not even counting the cost of the console itself (from four hundred USD).

In the absence of a cool 4K TV, there is no real benefit from having an advanced Pro console.

Games

All games available on the base console thanks to the developed patches will be supported on any of the modifications.

The developer himself explained that there would be no games exclusive for any particular model, immediately adding that on the Pro console, at the expense of graphics performance, it will manifest itself more qualitatively.

VR helmet

An important factor in the choice of consoles is your use of a virtual PlayStation helmet.

VR Helmet for PlayStation 4

According to the developer, it can be used in pairs with any of the PS varieties.

The maximum image frequency will be only in PS 4 Pro.

findings

Well weigh your desires in terms of graphics performance and VR helmet usage with the PS4 Pro and match them with your financial capabilities.

And if they match, then the question of what to choose: PS4 Slim or PS4 Pro - for you should be decided in favor of Pro.

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