Today is 7 November, which means the PS5 Pro is now available for purchase in Malaysia. Priced at RM3,849 locally, it is curiously quite a bit more expensive than, say, the retail price of the console in the US. It costs $699 there, which comes up to about RM3,080 at today’s exchange rate.

Nonetheless, for that kind of money, it’s worth noting that the PS5 Pro does not come with a Blu-ray disc drive. 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.

To recap, the PS5 Pro can now be purchased in Malaysia for RM3,849. From what we gathered, several local game stores look to have ready stocks of the console, so there doesn’t seem to be any stock shortage of the PS5 Pro on our shores.