At the end of last year, I made quite a bold financial play, going all in on the PlayStation 5 Pro. I sold my PS5, spent a bunch of money, added an extra disc drive, and reflected on what was therefore basically the best PlayStation money could buy. I had a great time, too, with some early PS5 Pro upgrades looking simply stellar by comparison with the base console.
Then, a couple of months ago, Nvidia sent me a fairly titanic gaming rig to test out for a while, packing the all-important headline component of an RTX GeForce 5070 Ti graphics card at its heart. It upended my expectations of how 2025 would feel for me from a gaming perspective, and I've been using it nonstop since it arrived. So, what's it like going from the world's most powerful console to a veritable beast of a gaming PC? Here's what I've learned.
