Okay, so Sony has announced a new PlayStation. Do you want it? That depends: What are you going to use it for? Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be a difficult question for a certain segment of the population. A new game machine? Why, of course I want that! But the PlayStation 4 Pro, which Sony announced at an event in New York City yesterday, is a sort of new game machine we don’t often see.

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