I recently wrote about the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:excellent timing of the PS5 Pro. Anticipating the Christmas drop with a frankly supernatural gift of foresight (or basic common sense, take your pick), I was excited about the thought of picking up a current-gen PlayStation to play 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Astro Bot. Then Mark Cerny announced the PS5 Pro would cost £700.

£699.99 to be precise. Or $699.99 for those of you over the pond. For anyone over the smaller pond in Ireland or mainland Europe, you’ll be shelling out €799.99, at which point it’s literally cheaper to buy one from America and have it shipped across the world. All these prices are for a diskless console with one DualSense controller, the latter of which have 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:recently increased in price. The advert also made it clear that the vertical stand is sold separately. While I believe the PS5 (and therefore the PS5 Pro) should be stood horizont🥂ally, this🌟 is a frankly ridiculous sentence to write underneath these eye-watering numbers.

The full price of a PS5 Pro with two controllers, a disk drive, and a𒊎 vertical stand is around £880.

Maybe I’ve got it wrong. Maybe I’m the only one dealing with a cost of living crisis, trying to feed a family with food costs spiralling out of control. Maybe I’m the problem. Maybe I just need to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:drive an Uber or go live on the beach for✤ a year.

However, we all love spending money. Whether you’re into Funko Pops, Concord skins, or central heating, we all love seei🍬ng that number on our banking app drop closer to zero each week! So, in the spirit of good capitalism, I’ve thought up the best uses for £700 that don’t in⛦volve buying a PS5 Pro.

14 Copies Of Baldur’s Gate 3

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3 was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:TheGamer’s Game of the Year last year and, using my powers of prescience proven at the top of this page, I think it will be the Game of the Decade if we choose such a thing in 2029. So why not buy 14 copies? I already have two (one on Xbox and one on PC), so 1🔴2 more wouldn’t go amiss.

I could give a couple to hesitant friends who I haven’t annoyed🦋 into playing it yet, start three fresh playthroughs on their own dedicated copies, and still have plenty to spare. One could be just for character creation! The opportunities are endless. Who knows, one day it might even be patched to support the PS5 Pro.

Paying Your Heating Bills This Winter

In Britain, the Tory government– wait, what did you say? Oh, right. Sorry, as I was saying, the Labour government has decided that . About 9.5 million pensioners are losing out on hundreds of pounds of government subsidies to help them survive in a time when . I don’t know what they’re complaining about, the cold never bothered me any♏way.

For the small price of a✃ PS5 Pro, these pensioners could replace two years of government subsidies with their own savings – an obvious choice if you ask me. Alternatively, buy a cheap gaming PC and it’ll act as a radiator too, if mine is anything to go by.

A Decade Of Xbox Game Pass

I hear the telltale click of keyboards now. “Sony has more consoles than it has games LOL!!1! laugh emoji laugh emoji skull emoji” write 1,273 Xbox fans in unison. They’re not actually bots, they are just unable to think original thoughtsﷺ, but that’s another matter.

However, a decade of Xbox Game Pass is too good a deal to pass up. While the recent price hike lost Team Green a lot of goodwill, you can purchase nine years and nine months of Xbox Game Pas💦s Core for just three pounds more than a PS5 Pro. If you wanted a vertical stand or disk drive, you could add on another three to nine months onto that total.

While you wouldn’t get any day one releases included in that tier, you could play through nearlꦫy every Yakuza title, every Dragon Age and Mass Effect game, as well as countless cool indies until your sub runs out in 2034. If you don’t have an Xbox to play any of this on, tough luck. Or buy a Series X and limit yourselfꦫ to just the meagre four years of Game Pass.

One And A Half Months Of Rent

I pay £475 a month to my landlord. I could pay for nearly six weeks of rent for the price of🍬 a PS5 Pro. Nearly the full two months when including the add-ons. Do with that information what you wil💝l.

Note: I’m reliably informed that rent for a one-bedroom apartment in a major US city will s♏et you lot back between $1,000-$2,000 a month. While my rent is split between my wife and I, I’m not sure you could even make a dent in yours with PS5 Pro money. Tough luck.

Two PS5s

The cheapest PS5 I could find at the UK’s most popular second-hand games retailer, , is a cool £340. It’s “discounted”,ꦦ so probably has some cosmetic damage, but I believe the store offers a year’s warranty, so it can’t be that bad, right?

Grab two of these for the price of a PS5 Pro. Give one to a mate. Keep them both for yourself. O💟ne in the living room, one in the bog for when you’ve got the hangover shits. At the very least, you get two DualSense controllers this way, which is more than can be said for the PS5 Pro.

54 Copies Of Balatro

“You already did this bit for Baldur’s Gate 3!” Shut up Balatro is the best game I’ܫve played t🍎his year and I’ll mention it if I want to.

Two Years Of Groceries

The average weekly cost for ꦉa food shop in the UK is £31 per person, up 13 percent from last year. So says a study by , which analysed data from the Office of National Statistics. This includes groceries, alcoholic drinks, and hygiene products, but not eating out or ordering takeaway.

While my grocery shops tend to skew 🅠🔥(a lot) higher than this, I’m catering for two adults and Eric Carle’s Very Hungry Toddler, so that’s to be expected. But if you’re just thinking of number one, you can buy an average amount of groceries for 22 and a half months for the cost of the base PS5 Pro, no peripherals included. That seems very reasonable. If you want to splash out on sun-dried tomatoes or anything other than Aldi’s own-brand butter, cut that down to 18, but we’re all tightening our belts at the moment, aren’t we Mr. Cerny?

You’re still thinking about buying a PS5 Pro, aren’t you? Cerny’s pitch about the detail on those Ratchet & Clank background characters who we never even noticed really tickled your pickle, huh? If that’s the case, there’s nothing left to do but dust off the old CV and send it to Mr. Uber. I hope you’ve got time for playing games while🥂 juggling your thre🦩e jobs.