Rumors of a PS5 Pro persist, and while a powered version of the current PS5 console has yet to be officially confirmed by Sony, a trusted insider has claimed that it is. “100% in development” And the whispers on the Internet refuse to calm down.
We expect the PS5 Pro to follow in the footsteps of its predecessor, the PS4 Pro. Essentially, this was a more powerful version of the base PS4 controller. It packed the same DualShock 4 controller and game library but was able to increase performance and target 4K resolution on select titles. It was a console designed for gamers who want a little extra power to enjoy PlayStation games at their best.
The PS5 Pro is supposed to do the same by building on existing PS5 foundations with updated internals and possibly a visual redesign as well. But remember that it will be an iteration of the existing PS5 hardware, not a complete successor; This is not PS6.
Naturally, since the PS5 Pro has yet to be confirmed in any kind of official capacity, all we have to do is rumors and a healthy dose of informed speculation. But for now, here’s everything we think we know about the PS5 Pro.
Latest PS5 Pro news (updated May 23rd)
PS5 Pro release date and potential price are rumored
last spring The PS5 Pro was expected to launch sometime this year. This would align with the three-year gap we saw between the PS4 (November 2013) and PS4 Pro (November 2016), but recent rumors have poured cold water on the notion that we’re just months away from the rumored console’s launch.
Tom Henderson From Insider Gaming over and over again PS5 Pro will launch in 2024 As part of Sony’s ambitious upcoming hardware lineup that will also include a revised standard PS5 model (with detachable disc drive) and a new portable device centered around the console’s Remote Play feature.
Henderson’s assertion that we’ll have to wait until next year to get our hands on the PS5 Pro has been backed up Additional sources indicate a release date of 2024 probably. In addition, another leaker claimed the PS5 Pro and Nintendo Switch 2 will Share launch window. And as You have effectively left Nintendo out Any new hardware in 2023, that would put the PS5 Pro launch out of the next seven months or so.
When it comes to price, there are precious few that give us an indication of how much we need to save ahead of time. When released in 2016, the PS4 Pro cost $399, which was about the same price as the base PS4 launched three years ago. Of course, after three years into the PS4 life cycle, the console has already received a price cut, which the PS5 didn’t.
If the PS5 Pro is to follow the trend of the last generation, it will launch for $499. However, don’t be surprised if the PS5 Pro comes out at a higher cost, maybe even $599. With the PSVR 2 ($549 launch price), Sony has proven that it isn’t afraid to charge a higher price for new hardware, so you might want to start saving those pennies as soon as possible since the PS5 Pro can be an expensive console.
Possible PS5 Pro specifications
When it comes to the PS5 Pro’s specs, two words keep popping up: 8K and ray tracing. We expect these to be two areas Sony is trying to target with any form of revised PS5 hardware.
Youtube Moore’s Law is deadExpect the PS5 Pro to be positioned as an 8K console to go along with Sony’s 8K TVs. While the current PS5 claims to have 8K capacity, we’ve seen very few games play at that resolution on hardware, and none of them are the most graphically demanding titles on console.
By the end of this year or early next year, there should be new AMD chips available for Sony to use in its next devices. The base PS5 currently uses an AMD Zen 2-based processor and RDNA 2 graphics on a dedicated chipset, but the PS5 Pro may instead have an updated Ryzen APU, as suggested by Paul Eccleston of RedGamingTech.
According to Paul’s source, the revised PS5 controller will also aim to offer stronger ray tracing performance. Ray tracing has become a marketing buzzword in recent months, but it’s basically a rendering technology that produces more realistic lighting effects. Tom Henderson also suggests that the PS5 Pro will have a strong focus on ray tracing and that legendary PlayStation console engineer Mark Cerny is involved in creating the hardware.
We expected the PS5 Pro to be a lot like the PS4 Pro in that it could use upmixing and checkerboard rendering to produce an 8K image from an image rendered at a lower resolution. We’ve seen Nvidia have a lot of success with their Deep Learning Supersampling (DLSS) technology on the likes of the GeForce RTX 3080.
There has been a huge boost to gamer selection so far this generation of console with many PS5’s Xbox Xbox X Games offering “Performance” or “Quality” mode. The former usually targets a higher frame rate, while the latter targets a better resolution. It seems likely that the PS5 Pro will build on this. We don’t expect the console to be able to run The best PS5 games in 8K at 120fps with full ray tracing enabled. But instead, players may be able to choose which items are most important to them.
Enabled PS5 Pro features
We think the PS5 Pro is unlikely to offer any per-time exclusives. As discussed above, it will likely feature more powerful internals, but we don’t expect its upgrades to extend to exclusive features or games.
The PS5 Pro is pretty much guaranteed to play all the same games as the PS5, and the current DualSense controller will almost certainly be the primary way you interact with the console. Perhaps there is a possibility that the PS5 Pro will come with higher tier packaging DualSense Edge observer. But we wouldn’t bet on that because Sony most likely wants to sell this premium $199 accessory separately to even the most avid PlayStation gamers.
It has also been hypothesized that the PS5 Pro will work in unison with the latest version PSVR2 Earphone. This would make sense because VR is clearly an area of great interest to Sony, and we expect their latest VR hardware to be supported for many years to come. There’s a reasonable chance that PSVR 2 will also be able to take advantage of the increased power of the PS5 Pro to improve performance levels or sharper visuals.
An early look at the PS5 Pro
Although the PS5 will celebrate its third birthday in November, it still seems like this console generation has barely begun. Publishers have chosen to release their biggest games on both PS5 and PS4 over the past couple of years, and that includes powerful PlayStation exclusives like Horizon: Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarök.
It looks like 2023 will be the year the PS4 is finally left behind, but it still looks like we’re at least two years away from the PS5 console core having really hit its stride. If the PS5 Pro is released in 2024, it can be said that it will come very early, launching just as the potential of its predecessor is fully unlocked.
However, some recent high profile games have been released in less than impressive technical condition (Star Wars Jedi Survivor is a prime example). So, there are certainly reasons to believe developers could do more power to play with, and the PS5 Pro could give them just that.
Sony will also showcase the PS5 Pro as a product designed specifically for the most avid gamers. It will not be intended as a replacement for the regular PS5, which will likely remain Sony’s flagship console.
The PS5 Pro will very likely be marketed to gamers who want the highest resolution possible, with the most stable framerates, and it will not be designed to replace the standard PS5 hardware. The two could coexist, as the PS4 and PS4 Pro have for several years. And as high-end gamers ourselves, the various PS5 Pro hardware circulating around the internet certainly caught our eye.
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