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The real cost of the PS5 Pro

On The Vergecast: consoles, freeform multitasking, and tri-fold phones.

But at $700 — plus another $80 if you want to buy the disc drive accessory, since the console itself doesn’t have one — a lot of gamers have been left wondering exactly how powerful it needs to be in order to justify the cost. Around the same time as Sony’s announcement, Microsoft said it was laying off another 650 Xbox employees — these are two companies with very different ideas about the same business, and it’s not always obvious who’s right. And we consider two simultaneous Google stories: the excellent Pixel Watch 3, and the potentially company-shaking ad tech trial.

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