The PS5 Pro rumor mill refuses to stop receiving new reports almost weekly. While Sony has not officially confirmed in any way the upgraded version of the existing PS5 console, reliable industry experts continue to maintain that it is on the way and one source even suggests that it is “100% in development”.
The PS5 Pro would function as a mid-generation upgrade between the PS5 and its successor, which we will call PS6. We hope that a PS5 Pro will follow the example of its predecessor, the PS4 Pro. Essentially, this was a more powerful version of the base. PS4 console. It included the same DualShock 4 controller and game library, but improved performance and targeted 4K resolution in select titles. It was a console designed for gamers who wanted extra power to fully enjoy PlayStation games.
The PS5 Pro would presumably do the same, building on the foundation of the base PS5 with updated internals and perhaps a slight visual redesign. But remember, it will be an iteration of the existing PS5 hardware, not a full successor; This is not the PS6.
Since the PS5 Pro hasn’t been officially unveiled, all we have are rumors, leaks, and a healthy dose of speculation. But for now, here’s everything we think we know about the PS5 Pro.
Latest PS5 Pro News (Updated March 31)
- Insider Gaming says Sony is preparing a “PS5 Pro Enhanced” label like on the PS4 Pro to show which games can take advantage of the superior hardware.
- Insider Gaming has expanded on the following PS5 Pro specs leak with even more details and indicated that developers now have access to the console’s hardware kits.
- A major PS5 Pro specs leak has emerged, courtesy of YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead, and it hints at a powerful console that could compete with the best gaming PCs.
- PS5 Pro leaks reveal September 2024 release and big new feature – here’s what we know.
- The PS5 Pro could get an AI boost thanks to an AMD Neural Processing Unit (NPU) according to new spec leaks.
- A reliable leaker has said that the PS5 Pro will launch in November 2024, with upgraded GPU and RAM to make 8K console gaming possible.
PS5 Pro launch date and price rumored
The PS5 Pro is expected to launch in the second half of 2024. This would put it about four years after the launch of the PS5. This would be slightly longer than the three-year gap between the PS4’s debut in November 2013 and the PS4 Pro in November 2016.
More recently, an information leak pointed to a September 2024 release window, as Jeff Grubb confirmed on his podcast. Another prediction comes from Tom Henderson from Insider Gaming, who has repeatedly suggested that the PS5 Pro will launch in November 2024. Henderson’s report is particularly significant since he previously leaked the existence of the PS5 Slim and PlayStation Portal last year. Besides, Additional sources suggest a 2024 release date adding more credibility.
Last year, a leaker claimed that the PS5 Pro and nintendo switch 2 would do share a home window. Since then, several sources have indicated that Nintendo has delayed its next hardware until early 2025, but there has been nothing to suggest Sony is planning the same. All signs point to the PS5 Pro still launching in 2024.
When it comes to price, there is very little that can give us an indication of how much we need to save up front. At launch in 2016, the PS4 Pro cost $399, the same price at which the base PS4 launched three years earlier.
If the PS5 Pro followed the trend of the last generation, it would launch for $499. However, don’t be surprised if the PS5 Pro costs even more, perhaps even $599. Sony showed with the PSVR 2 ($549 launch price) that it’s not afraid to charge a premium price for new hardware, so you might want to start saving those pennies ASAP because the PS5 Pro could be a expensive console.
Potential PS5 Pro Specs
When it comes to PS5 Pro specs, two words keep coming up: 8K and ray tracing. We expect these to be the two areas Sony intends to target with any type of revised PS5 hardware.
Our latest hint of PS5 Pro specs comes from youtuber Moore’s law is deadwith Internal games and IGN both corroborating the scoop. According to this major leak, the PS5 Pro could boast 67 teraflops of computing power, which equates to a “mere” 33.5 Tflops of “floating point” performance in real-world gaming terms.
To put this into perspective, the PS5 has only 10.28 Tflops. So in simple terms, that would be a massive technical leap, and would allow the PS5 Pro to compete even with the highest level gaming PC. These rumored specs would be worthy of the Pro name.
Internal games has expanded Moore’s original story by providing More details of PS5 Pro specifications. The source suggests that the Pro will get a big boost in system memory performance, going from the base PS5’s 448GB of memory to 576GB.
The same report claims that the PS5 Pro’s CPU design will be identical to the OG PS5, but the new PlayStation console will have a “CPU High Frequency Mode” that increases CPU clock speeds to 3.5 GHz. This would give the Pro’s processor a 10% clock boost over the standard PS5, which is pretty significant.
Other rumored specs coming via Insider Gaming include audio improvements (up to a 35% boost to the console’s Audio Compression Manager), a 45% faster rendering speed, and a big boost to game performance. ray tracing. While this all sounds exciting, be sure to keep in mind that this is still an unconfirmed rumor.
Tom Henderson It also suggests that the PS5 Pro will have a strong focus on ray tracing and that legendary PlayStation console architect Mark Cerny is involved in creating the hardware. The latter is not a surprise, but it is still good news.
Adding to our own speculation, there has been a big push for player choice in this generation of consoles, with many PS5 and Xbox Series X games offering a “Performance” or “Quality” mode. The former typically aims for a higher frame rate, the latter for a better resolution.
We’d love to see the PS5 Pro build even more on this element of player choice. We do not expect a Pro console that is capable of running the best ps5 games in 8K at 120 fps with full ray tracing enabled. But instead, players can inpidually choose which items are most important to them.
Possible PS5 Pro features
We think it’s highly unlikely that the PS5 Pro will offer exclusive features itself. As mentioned above, it’s likely to feature more powerful internals, but we don’t expect its upgrades to extend further to exclusive features or games.
The PS5 Pro will almost certainly play the same games as the PS5, and the current DualSense controller will almost certainly be the primary way to interact with the console. Perhaps there is a possibility that the PS5 Pro comes with the high-end Two-way border controller. But we wouldn’t bet on it, as Sony probably wants to sell this $199 accessory separately to dedicated PlayStation fans.
It has also been theorized that the PS5 Pro will work in harmony with the recently released one. PSVR 2 headphones. This would make sense as VR is clearly an area of great interest for Sony and we expect its latest VR device to be supported for many years to come.
There’s a reasonable chance that PSVR 2 could also take advantage of the PS5 Pro’s greater power for improved performance levels or sharper visuals.
PS5 Pro Initial Outlook
The PS5 celebrated its fourth birthday last November, but it still feels like this console generation is just getting started. After more than three years of cross-gen releases, it’s only now that the biggest new games are choosing to launch exclusively on the PS5.
Publishers have chosen to release their biggest games on both PS5 and PS4 in recent years, and this includes heavy-hitting PlayStation exclusives like Horizon: Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarök. However, recent flagship exclusive titles like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, hellpers 2 and Rise of the Rōnin They are only for PS5.
After more than a decade on the market, the PS4 is finally lagging behind, but it still looks like we’re at least a couple of years away from the base PS5 console hitting its stride. If a PS5 Pro is indeed released in 2024, it would arguably be too soon, launching just as the potential of its predecessor is fully unlocked.
However, some recent high-profile games have been released in a frustratingly poor technical state (last year’s Star Wars Jedi Survivor is a prime example). So there’s reason to believe that developers could use a little more gaming power, and the PS5 Pro could give them plenty of extra juice.
Sony would also present the PS5 Pro as a product designed specifically for the most enthusiastic gamers. It wouldn’t be intended as a replacement for the regular PS5, which would likely remain Sony’s flagship console.
The PS5 Pro will most likely be marketed towards gamers who want the highest possible resolution, with the most stable frame rate, and is not designed to replace the standard PS5 hardware. The two could coexist, as the PS4 and PS4 Pro did for several years. And as lovers of cutting-edge games, the various rumors about PS5 Pro circulating on the Internet have captured all our attention.
