We finally have the Malaysian pricing of the PS5 Pro, and as expected, it is not cheap. Retailing at RM3,849 on our shores, it is curiously priced quite a bit higher than, say, the US market. After all, the new console is priced at $699 there, which comes up to about RM2,915 at today’s exchange rate.

It’s worth noting that the PS5 Pro does not come with a Blu-ray disc drive either. So if you want to play physical games on the new console, you have to fork out an additional RM529 for the drive attachment, driving up the total cost of the PS5 Pro to an eye-watering RM4,378.

Pricing aside, the PS5 Pro does offer a number of upgrades, including a larger 2TB SSD – instead of the slimmer PS5’s 1TB drive – and faster performance with an upgraded GPU, advanced ray tracing, as well as AI-driven upscaling dubbed PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). The GPU, for one, now features 67% more compute units than the current PS5 with 28% faster memory. Collectively, this results in up to 45% faster rendering.

What about advanced ray tracing? Well, according to PlayStation, the PS5 Pro can do more powerful ray tracing that provides more dynamic reflection and refraction of light, allowing rays to be cast at “double, and at times triple, the speeds of the current PS5 console.”

Finally, there’s PSSR, which is similar in implementation to Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR; all of which are upscaling techniques. PSSR uses machine learning to provide sharper image quality, resulting in improved visual quality.

If you’re keen to get the PS5 Pro in Malaysia despite the rather exorbitant asking price, local pre-orders will start on 26 September this Thursday. The new console will also available from 7 November onwards, just like how it is for international markets.