Sony just unveiled a monstrous new game console called "PlayStation 4 Pro"

Sony's just revealed a new, more powerful PlayStation 4 console. It's named PlayStation 4 "Pro," and it's intended to sit alongside existing PlayStation 4 consoles. The console is capable of powering 4K games.

Think of PlayStation 4 Pro like the MacBook Pro compared with a traditional MacBook - a more powerful piece of hardware that's capable of doing similar things.

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The console has a more powerful graphics processing chip, which is capable of powering higher-resolution games than ever before. Sony showed off a montage of games like "Watch Dogs 2" and "For Honor" to showcase the capabilities of the new console - games do, indeed, look prettier than ever before.

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PlayStation head Andrew House introduces the PlayStation 4 Pro console at the PlayStation Meeting event in New York City on September 7.

The big sales point of the Pro console is being able to support 4K and HDR televisions. Games look better than ever before, and game developers don't have to do much to make it so - the console's architect, Mark Cerny, says that it's simply a measure of the new PlayStation 4 Pro being able to output higher resolutions of games that are already full of very high-resolution art.

The PlayStation 4 Pro comes with a 1TB hard drive as a standard, and is capable of playing all your original PlayStation 4 games as well as new, updated "Pro" versions of games. It also works with Sony's PlayStation VR headset, which launches this October.

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Some games on PlayStation 4 Pro will look better as soon as this holiday: "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare" will apparently support the console on "day one." Considering that the game comes out this holiday, it looks like PlayStation 4 Pro may be arriving sooner than later.

We don't have an official release date or price for the PlayStation 4 Pro console. We'll update this post as we learn more (we're currently at the annnouncement event).