The best alternative to Sony’s $700 PS5 is this $36 book

Last week, Sony unveiled the PS5 Pro—and its C suite–level price tag of $700. The prospect of shelling out so much coin for some frame rate upgrades and spec buffs managed to adequately piss off many players, while leaving others (raises hand) pining for the era of gaming when disc drives came standard and narratives unfolded on a CRT TV rather than a $4,300 OLED 4K AI-enabled rig or your cramped cellphone. Not long after Sony’s reveal, coincidentally, I cracked open a galley of Lost...