what ya been smoking fella?

This is such a cool story. I found a pound at school yesterday.

I can't quite put my finger on it, but this thread is missing something...


Ah. There it is.

Nice... can't think of a word. :man:

nice spot

Nice one

Nice... can't think of a word. :man:

thanks OP. sadly, got to wait a little longer tho as cant pre-order just yet...

£259ish to £250ish with a game before Christmas I suspect.

Time will tell.

Some of my favourite tobacco.

Price won't drop so soon.. but hopefully there will be some bundles...

One game would be nice for the 10th! :sunglasses:

still has beaten the price I got mine at £263 with staff discount but this is still a nice price if you don't get discount :sunglasses:

Nice price.

Tesco have had mine ready for dispatch for about 4 days now, so hoping they are OK for release date delivery...

Sounds like a great deal mate...I have the original PS4 model and canceled my PS4 pro pre order but was surprised to see the code for Dishonored 2 still worked. £20 for Dishonored 2 seems a great price...

I was wondering that too. It's 12.5% for electronics at John Lewis.

Will amazon price match? If they do how long does it take

It doubles if you give hand relief to management.

surely good lip service is worth more?

"Twice the power of PS4!!"



Except not. :neutral_face:

If COD is your thing, get on chat and tell them you got their PS4 Pro pre-order deal code for COD at £42 but when you put the Legacy edition in the basket it's not working..... in just a couple of minutes he adjusted the price and the Legacy edition was mine for just £42 :smiley:

​tesco it was double discount weekend 3 weeks ago

​tesco it was double discount weekend 3 week ago

Still only 20% off, math dont work?

Even at this reduced price you would need a 26.4% discount, very unlikely?

The PS4 Slim is already less than that at £230 with two physical games and three months NowTV!

The Pro is not getting glowing reviews from major media and the results are said to be widely controversial. All depends what screen you have and according to Digital Foundry the results are only impressive on top of the line TVs worth thousands...

I would bet the sales numbers will drop after the hardcore gamers get their preorders and come Christmas or even Black Friday we will see bundles with multiple games for around £300. Only time will tell though :smile:

what are the chances of buying this on release day in a shop somewhere with FIFA 17 bundled in!?

I want to be that kid outside of that shop, like Mr Bean was outside Harrods on Christmas day.

​yep hand down you win haha :sunglasses:

think amazon will match this price again?

If you read it, they praise the improvements in 1080p quality pretty highly, as do other reviews. That's what I'm buying for.... 4K can wait until next year!

well considering when I pre-ordered it was already at £332.49 takeaway double discount I saved £66. don't cry because you don't like what you see.​

Till January I believe

Apparently it is not true 4K or not "native 4K" which is annoying. It also doen't have a "Ultra HD BLU RAY" drive which is disappointing. I will wait a year and there will probably be another version that has the drive. The whole thing with the ".5" consoles from XBOX and SONY is making me think that it is time to invest in a top PC.

no as they have no stock till next year

Where on amazon website does it say they have no stock because it's available for ore order for release

Careful, jouster has his crystal ball out

Half eaten custard cream.

strange it wasn't earlier, and now its not saying anything about have no more allocated stock, something strange going on with amazon one minute they have stock and the next they warn they have ran out of stock and say they not getting any to January but you can order and get it on release day

I ordered one from Amazon on the weekend and just got an email stating that the estimate delivery time is Nov 11- Nov 14 lol sod that, cancelled it and will get this...£18 cheaper too

Yep, they will have to bring out a Pro 2 next year just to compete with MS.

£259.99 plus a game once the fanboys have all got one.

Oddly enough, I too have considered putting the money into a PC rather than this.

Been watching the price on JL website for some time now - was going to post the deal once I had ordered mine ...:disappointed:

Re: 4K, it changes game to game. Much like PS4 has games ranging from 540p to 1080p, PS4 Pro will have games that are native 4K, checkerboard 4K, 1800p, 1440p etc

Great sensible review of the PS4 PRO here from Digital Foundry. Overwhelmingly positive.

*swoon*

Same here. I phoned last night because the order still states the 11th for delivery - they told me it *should* be here on release day though...

ugh when will game price match , is it worth too cancel it

Mine says Monday 14th... But the email confirming the order said 9th - 14th with the 14th being the latest possible date..

I was going to tell everyone this really cool story, but after your post there's just no point :disappointed:

took them a while. ive been enjoying 4k gaming at easily 60 fps high settings for years and years now.​

I can't quite put my finger on it, but this thread is missing something...


Ah. There it is.

The wii U will drop in price before that happens. So never then.

Well, once we get past all the glowing reviews from the professional reviewers who rely on electronics firms sending them free kit... and once we have got past all the early adopters who are biting at the bit to have their PS4 Pro this week... we will see won't we.

I was gonna get this from John Lewis at 8, now i suspect that the site will go down cause everybody will be trying to order this at the same time. We need to get a system in place so we can all order with no problem, so could everybody hold fire until 20.10, that should give me enough time to get my self sorted :smirk:

I'm going to wait for Black Friday. I doubt it'll be much cheaper but I expect there will be some freebies bundled in...if not I can wait a couple of months.

Amazon now have it for sale again (it just says Thursday release, they are not mentioning delivery date), but at £349.99, or bundled with Call of Duty or Dishonored 2 if you want to pay extra -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PlayStation-4-Pro-1TB/dp/B01GVQVL0Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1478619060&sr=1-1&keywords=ps4+pro

​drop by nearly 100 in a months time your dreaming

Took me no more than 5 seconds on google........... :wink:
http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/work/pay-and-benefits.html

It's only 12% by the way if you struggle with direct link. :man:

​It seems important for you to believe this will happen. I'm not sure why but there we go. For them to drop the Pro to £250, what would the Slim have to be? £150? Not gonna happen.

Yea oyu sure did, seriously this is why pc master race is like a cult where people feel the need to lie and exaggerate to themselves and other to convince they are better than they really are. i mean even two 980TI barely able to do 4K 60fps and its only released one and a half year ago and at £550 a pop at that. but yea i am sure you you been enjoying 4k for years now

And I bet he's been doing it all for a budget of just £332, including controller, and probably has a HTC Vive unit he picked up for a tenner. #completeditmate

Is it just me or is this actually a pretty pointless console?

The way I read it, it's supposedly offering 4k gaming, yet there's no 4k drive, so surely it'll only achieve '4k gaming' by upscaling... except very few games are likely to support that at the moment... and even if they do support it then the benefits of this console will only be seen offline... as if your playing online it'll have to dumb everything down so that it runs smoothly with the older model PS4's (that most other online players will be using).

It appears to me that the original PS4 just wasn't powerful enough, so Sony have chosen to release a more powerful console that is still short of being what it should be, I mean, no 4k drive, so no true 4k games or movies unless you want to buy everything digitally, which is a very risky thing to do where Sony are concerned, not only because their prices are always really high compared to retailers but if your PSN account gets compromised or banned (through no fault of your own), then you are left with nothing.

Would imagine that people who pre-ordered it months ago "just in case" are now cancelling orders and freeing up stock.

with prime i got £2 discout making dishonoured 2 for £18, cod for £32 plus last of us was a email error with amazon pro order

I agree in some way, I don't see the point of a new console that is limited by the old, but then again the PS4 has 50 million users so a new console using the old architecture and platform is going to be limited in some way, like you say with online play. It won't be any worse than a standard PS4 but then again it won't be any better either.

I've a 2016 4k OLED TV with HDR, cost a decent amount BUT it doesn't have a 4k player. I'm digital for games and mainly media (Home Server plus 4k Netflix via TV) but I do want a machine capable of playing the best content via disc, this 'Pro' is a halfway house. I'd have paid £399 for a PS4 Pro with a 4k enabled drive.

Time will tell but right now your buying in to an idea where as a standard slim PS4 is fully established user-base, supported by all developers, same online play as PS4 Pro and still has HDR.

Mine arrives Thursday.....

Been a Sony fan for a long time now, got multiple PS4's. I just can't seem to get excited for this console.

Gutted really.

You don't need a 4k drive to play 4k games. The drive was only to play 4k movies. Any game can play at any resolution regardless of the drive as long as the console can pump it out and you have enough space on the disc to fit in the nice 4k textures, which a standard blu-ray is fine for.

The benefits will be gained online too. The pro version will have to run at the same frame rate, I assume, but you can still play at a higher resolution, or at the same resolution but with added effects. I mean if they chose to patch the game for the pro. Otherwise it would be identical.

It's probably not worth upgrading your basic ps4 for, but for people without I can see them going for the pro.

I'm half-tempted to trade my launch PS4 in and get a PS Pro. Anyone else take up the offer on Shopto or similar? I've just bought a new 4ktv but it's hardly top of the line. Was like £700 so presumably hasn't got 10-bit HDR, which I hear is the thing to have. Hmm, not sure...

Is this just for collection only ?

I got mine ordered from Tesco Direct using friends staff discount when it was at 20% for £266....really curious to see how graphics on mw remastered will look on pro.

299 at very after the 50 cash back

home delivery also..will take upto 5 working days..you can also send it to waitrose for next day delivery if you have one

UPDATE:just came off the phone with a partner who works at John Lewis and he said they have more than 500+ units available in their distribution centre . so stock looks plentyful.

No way are they OOS until next year. You can buy this pretty much anywhere, amazon will restock before you know it

Your TV could have a 10 bit panel, MY TV cost £649 and it has a 10 bit panel

I was checking it the other day because I wanted to know about a TV and didn't want to bother the person I know working there. Forgive me for adding another .5%

Either way it still doesn't work out with the price the person said they got it for, obviously later they confirmed they were a Tesco employee and not a John Lewis one.

What is your point?

877 to be exact sir

​lol I was going to get an exact number,but 500 was good enough..nice to see an actual figure tho

where can a get a 2tb hdd for the pro..anyone have links..hdd?ssd?what to get

Let's have a wager then. £10 to charity of choice. Heck, if it's £260 with a game I'll make it £20.

Pick up the 2TB Seagate from Argos - £69.99. Open the case and take out the drive, if you are careful opening it then you can use the old PS4 Hard Drive in the caddy. The drive is the same as what sells for £93 on Amazon - samsung M9T.

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/2685117

SORTED :smile:

Waitrose collection thursday

​ok so just placed order for £292.59 for ps4 pro..now I'll look a hdd thanks @henryftw I'll look on amazon.then 2moro I'll get the Samsung 55ks8000

Couldn't resist. Goodbye savings!

How did you get it for that price?

You need to do a bit more reading. A fair bit wrong in your post. Hard to blame you considering Sony's marketing has been bad. I'll try and do a write up of what the current consoles can and can't do. Maybe a guide on 4KTV's since they're confusing everybody too.

done...thanks OP!:wink: canceled my amazon order but was still able to use my £20 discount code for Dishonored 2....so got Ps4 pro + Dishonored 2 for £352 plus 2 years warranty...not the best deal in the world but I look at it as a release day bundle with a free game....good enough for me!:wink:

Staff Discount I presume

​shhhhh..I work at JL

Succumbed !

Well it seemed silly not to - after all I did have a JL gift card with £2.35 left on it ...:laughing:

​staff

Ordered thanks :smile:

Am I right in thinking John Lewis still have a price match up to 28 days after purchase? If so, might be worth keeping an eye on prices for the Pro over the next few weeks...might be able to get a price match on a cheaper deal if we lucky!:wink:

Thanks for waiting for me to order mine, my order has gone through ok so your now all ok to proceed to the checkout

Ordered cheers for for the post,I noticed that they give you 2 yrs Warrenty- is that standard as ordered the extra 2yrs cover for £15 also ?!?!

Good deal, I may buy one eventually when my PS4 packs up. Hopefully in over 5 years.

lol! :wink: oopppssss!

​1st year is with Sony...so u have to send it to them.2nd year is with John Lewis..they will just replace it their and their..ur extra cover is for mishap and accidental damage which again gets taken care of with JL

Same, is your collection at 2PM too?

I hope Amazon matches this...

​it will say collection from 2pm..as soon as u get the text message...RUN forrest RUN..I usually get my text around 11am

​I think they have matched Tesco..but once price goes up..it can only be submitted via their price promise online forms, unless they drop the price again on the web

I had this pre ordered with Amazon when they price matched Tesco's £332 price a few weeks ago but canceled Amazon order this morning as John Lewis price matched but offer the extra year warranty.

will I need any other tools.and how does one open the plastic casing..

thanks naarmi......:wink:

What about this HDD? its also cheaper https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00TKFEE5S/?tag=georiot-grd-21&ascsubtag=hawk-1021227727-21

Ordered and will be cancelling my tesco order..seems a no brainier to get the extra years warranty for a few quid more

I have used that one in my PS4. Works fine. Very occasional makes a random beep noise for about a second

Yeh Ive got it in my current PS4 and I wondered what that beep was that happens every so often, I thought it was the PS4 doing it lol so is this basically the same HDD as http://www.argos.co.uk/product/2685117

Yeah the beep doesn't bother me and it hardly ever happens. I'm just gonna keep it for myPS4 pro. Sorry I'm not sure if it's the same HDD as that one

If I've already got a 2TB hard drive in my current ps4 can i just swap the hard drives over cause that would save me from having to copy it all over to new one

A very balanced and well-stated point of view. Enjoy your new machine when it arives. :wink:

Apparently not. You have to initialise the new drive in the PS4 pro

oos now

Ordered, my standard PS4 had an "accident" just before my birthday last week and "stopped working" Girlfriend was left with no choice but to buy the newer shiny PS4 Pro.... :man:

877 units all gone oos

What is the point, Sony have restricted developers to sticking to the same framerate as the PS4... it holds back the whole thing at that point.

Not true. Take a closer look at many of the already patched games with their choice of either significant graphical improvements or increased frame rates (or both). Check out Digital Foundry's YouTube channel, it'll take you through the great options in the likes of Tomb Raider, COD, BF, Ratchet n Clank, Titanfall2 etc. (all in 1080p btw, I'm not talking about 4K even)

Not to mention the improved graphical quality of PSVR (still to be announced in more detail but anecdotally on Reddit etc people are pleasantly surprised already).

Most of the respectable sources have said unless you have 4k its not a huge difference and largely unessential at the moment. Despite what you say the only game to take proper advantage of the PRO for 1080p owners is tomb raider. Before posting info you should research more, there are plenty of resources available now, and high quality video analysis all which show for 1080 owners there is very little difference at the moment. Give it 6 months and we will know more once devs start making the most of the tech (if they do)

Google for the NeoGaf article on how good Titanfall2 looks in 1080p on the PS4, I reckon you'll be rather surprised! COD MW remastered too also looks great, and the Infamous titles. There's way more than just Tomb Raider just now, and patches will come thick and fast each week :smiley: Personally, can't wait :smiley: The most respectable for me is Digital Foundry, they were pretty positive on the 1080p performance.

Smoother framerate, but if a developer chooses 30FPS on the PS4, they have to stick to 30 on the Pro.

Well I want all my games to be 60, I don't want to be forced to 30, it's the whole reason of wanting a more powerful system.


So I'll just stick to PC only.

Gonna get this with Double discount at work for £280

Isn't that only when it comes to multiplayer? so that those on the Pro don't get an advantage over those playing on the PS4 but they have already patch Rise of the Tomb Raider so it can run at a higher fps.

Why would new games come out using 30fps now?

I don't think mentioning you own a PC has anything to do with this either. I do, its a monster, but its not the same as using a console for most people.

Nope, only in multiplayer.

At £7.20 an hour you'll be paying it back all year

oooo he went there :smirk:

This is a good read

i bought a 4k tv just for the pro before they did the ps4 pro press conference so i did not know about hdr. now i regret wasting money on my 55 inch 4k tv because it doesnt have hdr. is it worth getting a ps4 pro to use on a 4k tv without hdr

darm..woke up now to get an email that my order has been held..time to give customers service a call

WOW...John Lewis oos in under 4 hours!

phew..all sorted just a simple security check...all good for thurdsay

Out of stock as I try to order another one :disappointed:

Back in stock Tesco Direct

Thanks, Do you think it would be better to keep the brand new 1Tb hard drive in the new ps4 pro OR do i put my 2 year old 2TB hard drive in the new ps4 pro??

Any help from anybody will be much appreciated as i cant make my mind up :disappointed:

​was oos by 10pm

1 in stock if anyone wants one

ok now oos again.. :confused:

I have been thinking exactly the same. I think I'm gonna keep the 1tb in and keep the 2tb as a spare in case I need the extra space in my PS4. I currently have about 750gb on my hard drive and probably could free up a bit more space

Seems to be coming in and going out of stock at JL! just picked up 1 of 3 available!

Personally I'm doing it on day 1. Reasoning is, the upgrade is an inevitability.... I have the drive, so at some point I'll need to do it and as time passes those 4k/1080p 60fps updates will be reasonably sized patches. I have around 80GB free on a 1TB console so a few updates and a full size digital purchase and it will be full.

Yeah I know what you mean. Think the only way to do it on day 1 is to reinstall games and add ons isn't it?

I am hoping to swap the 2GB drive from my PS4 to the Pro - but if it looks to be too much messing about I will just go and buy a new 2GB drive and install that - life's too short !

1 in stock now

All you need to know is HERE. Simple and painless process :smiley: [did it already with a ps4 to slim model]

Ive just backed up my ps4 to an external hard drive (350GB only took 2 hours), I think I'm gonna put my old 2TB drive in and do it straight away. Hopefully it'll be done in 2 hours.

I've heard that backing up to a USB 3.0 drive is significantly faster than the transferring directly between consoles via ethernet cable so you have probably gone with the right option.

I have already read up about that, but what I need to do is -
1. copy PS4 to external backup.
2. remove 2GB drive from PS4
3. remove 1GB drive from Pro and install 2GB drive from PS4
4. install 1GB drive to PS4
5. restore backup to PS4
6. copy PS4 to Pro

So it may be easier/quicker to just get another 2GB hard drive and leave my old PS4 as it is - but I'll probably take a hit on the old 2GB drive if I sell the console on ...

tryed to price match with amerson but they dont do it no more

Amazon

did you get a reply on this? I'm eager to know as well

is it worth getting ps4 pro with a 4k tv without hdr?

naa not yet

First off i think you mean to say TB not GB,
Secondly after step 1 i think you will need to visit the PlayStation website to get the latest version of the system software

HDR, whilst very impressive, is still in its infancy. All screens with HDR on them that are currently available have made some sort of compromise, ESPECIALLY if you're an avid gamer. You won't be losing out big time without HDR at the moment as you'll still enjoy the 4k (or upscaling) benefits the Pro will bring. Perhaps think about upgrading to an HDR TV in a couple of years when the price has come down a bit and they're more refined.

oh thats good then. its still mentally annoying that i won't be getting the best available picture quality

got a text message now to collect console from JL..anyone have or collected theirs yet?

John Lewis not contacted me yet! :disappointed: Mind you, I did order it from Amazon.

I got my text but i cancelled it yesterday cause Tesco is £5.22 cheaper after 1.57% from TCB.

Collected this morning, had it sat next to me for a few hours all boxed up, it's huge! Kind of regretting/buyers remorse as my 1TB Ltd. Edition Star Wars Console has nothing wrong with it :neutral_face:

same here been staring at my metal gear limited edition console and my pro still in the grey john lewis bag

I sold my metal gear PS4 for £255 to upgrade to this. Did really like the colour of it too. My PRO is currently sat in its John Lewis bag too in the front room..I hope it doesn't stay in there permanently!

How did you get 255? :o

Picked mine up from the Cardiff store today with no issues :smiley:
Cheers OP!

​for the price of £5 wouldn't the extra year not warrent keeping the JL one?

Yeah really interested in how you got £255, Ive had 1 offer of £200 in a week and it's on gumtree and eBay?!

I decided to get Xbox Scorpio instead

Sold it on eBay the day I had a offer of £1 listing. I think I sold it around the time the Pro and slim just got announced. I thought I was lucky myself when i saw the auction make that much! Listing below just to prove I'm not blagging!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-PlayStation-4-PS4-Metal-Gear-Solid-V-Limited-Edition-Console-Ground-zero-/201666444373

JL deal also comes with a 2 year warranty.

Ahh that explains it! I've kept mine and at the moment and trying to sell is impossible, so many great deals on Slims and now the Pro. Thought about keeping it (the Star Wars one) but it is excessive having 2 PS4's, one for VR and the other for 4k and a PS3, might as well have just built myself a rig. Still haven't opened the Pro yet so 89 days left to return it!

Good deal considering the 2 year warranty. Really tempting but I'm forcing myself to wait for Black Friday in hope of a bundle with a couple of games for sub £350

Good deal....excellent service by JL...picked up release day from local store. Canceled my amazon order before release but was still able to use the £20 discount code they sent for Dishonoured 2 and then took it in to CEX and got £32 cash for it, as didnt want the game. Works out £320 and 2 years warranty for release day Pro....not greatest deal in the world but without staff discounts etc, seems the best price I could find...and traded another 4 "old" games in at cex while I was there for Rise of the Tomb raider, to see what the pro can do with a new release with the extra graphic options....Thanks for the thread OP!:wink:

back in stock at John lewis

Same price at Tesco but you get clubcard points on top

these things are pointless unless you have a 4k display - don't fool for the hype fools

Back to full price..