Coming This Week to Digital Foundry (Week 45, 2024) (Patreon)

Hello there everyone! Many thanks for bearing with me here as this update is somewhat late. The PlayStation 5 Pro embargo for the unboxing 'dropped' on Monday, requiring a re-edit owing to some to-ing and fro-ing with Sony about what we could actually show. That put me back several hours, meaning it was a rush to complete the assets needed for the PlayStation 5 Pro review, which we filmed this morning.

Here's the deal. I usually handle hardware reviews, but it soon became apparent that I would never hit the next embargo. Meanwhile, we really wanted to get as MUCH detail out there as possible. The solution is to go parallel - myself, John and Oliver have all supplied data and impressions for the review, which Oliver is editing now. It's a little more formal than a DF Direct, but the point is that when the next embargo lifts, you'll have a detail-heavy PS5 Pro review that should be over an hour long.

Game analysis, RT testing, PSSR breakdowns on more games, Game Boost, PS4 Image Enhancement, power consumption metrics, CPU performance testing. It's all in there. I'm looking forward to seeing the final edit!

Let's talk about other things happening:

Will is our man for reviewing the the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, so the Eurogamer text review will drop for that on embargo. After that, the Black Friday affiliates rush begins!

Rich (ie me) circles back to the 9800X3D video review as soon as I've cleared the Eurogamer PS5 Pro text review. This should be relatively straightforward! I'm also keen on more in-depth Game Boost testing and I guess everyone kinda wants to know what the closest equivalent PC GPU actually is....

Tom is working on sponsored content right now but once that's over, it's straight onto PS5 Pro game testing.

Alex is polishing up his Red Dead Redemption PC review, which is looking like a lot of fun. He's ordered a PS5 Pro to help with our efforts there, but he may well be taking a look at Lego Horizon... we'll have to wait and see!

Oliver has basically been saving our bacon time and time again. I'm so excited about the PS5 Pro review. He's also going to be covering Alan Wake 2 on Pro, but before that, a deeper dive into the PS4 image enhancement feature on PS5 Pro.

John is going to be looking at Marvel's Spider-Man 2 on PS5 Pro.

OK, so lots going on there. I will be reviewing your PS5 Pro requests in the other posts in due course, but as ever, if you have requests for #content, do let me know in that always inviting box below.