That the Pro is part of the PlayStation family is unmistakable thanks to the stacked design. But this stack has three tiers - it’s like a Big Mac next to the Quarter Pounder-like standard PS4. Perhaps that makes the new PS4 Slim a standard cheeseburger.
It’s actually marginally wider and deeper than the original PS4(and a tiny bit thinner), but it somehow looks more compact in the flesh. Perhaps that’s something to do with the three tiers. One thing that just looks a little wrong to me is the placement of the light strip between the middle and bottom layers. For some reason that just looks peculiar in a way that I can’t quite put my finger on.
Connections are almost identical to those of the standard PS4 - the only difference is that it has a USB 3.0 socket on the rear as well as the two on the front. The rest of the back panel therefore consists of an HDMI output, PlayStation Camera connection(there’s a new, cylindrical version of the Camera now available), ethernet socket and an optical digital out(something that the PS4 Slim does without).
Oh, and the power socket appears to have changed from one of those little figure-of-eight ones to a kettle lead connection. Why? Who knows, but it shouldn’t make any practical difference to anything.
Once again, the PS4 Pro is designed to to lie down or stand up, and the pedestal for vertical placement looks much smarter than that of the old PS4, lifting the Pro off the shelf to make it look from some angles as though it’s floating.
And if you do stand it up you’ll be able to get a closer look at the PlayStation symbols on the bottom that act as feet when the device is lying flat. They’re a super-cute touch in our book.