So I upgraded to a PS4 Pro roughly this time last year, I only play at 1080p. I'd say it's been worth it, most games run smoothly and look clearer. The biggest difference I noticed was with Black Ops 4 and Blackout. I played the beta on the base one and the release game on the Pro, and the image quality and framerate stability were much, much better on the pro. On a base PS4 the resolution was muddy enough that it made long range sniping in Blackout more of a challenge than it should have been. Past that, I knew there were several upcoming big games I'd want to play at release, and several I had in my backlog that I knew benefited from the Pro. Red Dead 2 was smooth as silk, for example. I got one of the ones with good fans apparently, you can look up the product codes to see which ones are the good ones, I want to say it either started with the Spiderman ones or were just after those ones in terms of model number. It still revs up like a jet engine sometimes (mostly in MK11 for whatever reason), but I'd put that on some games having poor optimization that makes it spike, most of the time it's as quiet or quieter than the base one.
However, I got mine a year ago, as we get closer to new consoles, with backwards compatibility being a common rumor, I'm not so sure. The PS5 will be out in the next 2 years (not confirmed of course but come on), possibly within the next year. I'm the type of person that doesn't buy launch consoles, I wait a bit, so I knew I'd get a good 3-4 years out of the pro at least, and this was before the PS5 backwards compatibility rumours really started picking up steam. Not to mention I was able to get a brand new one and it only cost me $100 out of pocket once I sold my base PS4, so it was a great deal, I probably wouldn't have done it if it cost me any more than $150 out of pocket.
So I'd say you ought to ask yourself a few questions. Are you going to buy a PS5 at launch? Are you an early adopter for new consoles? Are there upcoming games you want to make sure run well (Last of Us Part 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding) that you can't play on your PC? Or are there PS4 games in your backlog that would benefit from the upgrade, like Red Dead?
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