I don’t need a PlayStation 5 Pro. Not yet, that is. My plan was to buy one at the end of the year so I could play GTA 6, if it gets released.

The other day, Sony announced yet another price increase for all PlayStation models, and the PS5 Pro is set to cost €150 more. That’s a 20% price increase for a two-year-old console. Absurd.

Being as economical as I am, I ordered a PS5 Pro at the old price, and it’ll arrive on Tuesday. This wasn’t the plan. I don’t want to spend more time playing video games right now. But I can’t say no to a “deal.”

Amazon already increased the prices (days before Sony’s deadline), and the PS5 Pro is sold out.

Weird times.

Not to be contrarian, but I don’t think Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo’s second Switch 2 exclusive, is very fun. The first level intrigued me. The sheer chaos of punching and breaking everything had me spending a couple of hours in a vortex of dopamine hits.

This got old very quickly, though. It’s the same thing in every level of the game: run around, smash stuff, collect gold, run around some more, repeat.

I haven’t finished it yet, but I’d say I’m more than halfway through the game, and it hasn’t surprised me as often as I expected based on the very positive reviews floating around. It hasn’t surprised me at all, to be honest, come to think of it. I watched the Nintendo Direct presentation showing what the game is all about, and that seems to have been it.

Not even the art style impresses me much. Coming off my second playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom, Donkey Kong Bananza only looks nice. Nothing made me stop and take in the vistas. Not to mention the character design, which feels a bit like something a 13-year-old in the 90s would have liked.

The story is basic and can be understood without reading anything, and its difficulty is easy enough to just run from quest marker to quest marker without having trouble progressing.

Sorry, DK, this Bananza is just a tad too boring for my taste.