There are enough PS4-exclusive games that I’m interested in now that I finally caved and ordered a PS4 Pro about a week ago, and it’ll arrive on the 20th (it’s the God of War bundle).

But I only just realized something: I don’t have an audio path for it. With the previous gen consoles, they all had cables that broke out plain old RCA outputs, so my current system is built around that. It’s a digital world now though, but unfortunately for me, the HDMI goes straight into a computer monitor with no audio. The only other option on the PS4 is S/PDIF, so I guess I’m going to have to look for a converter!

I also spent some time today cleaning up the rat’s nest of wiring around my current setup so it’s easier to hook up once it arrives. This mainly meant yanking out the Xbox 360 and Wii entirely, as much as it pains me. I keep thinking of the games on them that I still have unfinished and intend to play one day (mainly Xenoblade on the Wii; Lost Odyssey, Nier, and Resonance of Fate on the 360), but honestly, I’d barely touched them in years. If I ever do get the urge to use them again, I have another old monitor I could use for an ad-hoc setup as needed.

I really need to just completely redo my “home theatre” setup from scratch, though. I’ve been using a 24″ computer monitor and PC speakers for over 10 years now and yeah, it could be better…