Four years after the release of its last PlayStation, Sony has just teased the arrival of its next console: the PS5 Pro. Here’s everything you need to know about the future star of living rooms that could arrive before the holidays.
After giving the PlayStation 5 a nice slimming treatment by releasing the PS5 Slim – a lighter and smaller version of the standard – on November 24, 2023, Sony is preparing to rekindle the hype around its console. In a recent press release published to announce the 30the anniversary of the release of the brand’s very first home console (December 3, 1994), the Japanese company has hinted that a new version of its PS5 is in the works. On the official image celebrating the 30th anniversary of the original PlayStation, we can see icons of PSP, DualShock, PS Vita, but also a machine that strangely resembles the recent leaks concerning the design of the PS5 Pro. Right in the middle of the visual, in watermark, we can find the device with its three grooves and its very unique rectangular look. Even if it is only a wink for the moment, the official announcement of the release of the improved version of the standard PS5 seems imminent.
PS5 Pro: a console really more powerful than the standard version?
For now, only the physical appearance of the PS5 Pro seems to be confirmed. Although the performance and new features of the console are still unknown, it is certain that the machine will be more powerful than the standard version. Several sources agree that the device will experience great graphical improvements, notably thanks to its new GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). Some observers have also announced that the graphics power of the PS5 Pro would be close to the AMD RX 7700 XT or Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti graphics cards. A clear improvement over the performance of the standard version, which was closer to a Radeon RX 5700.
The PS5 Pro’s games and animations could be even smoother as the management of ray tracing and its PSSR technology, equivalent to DLSS or FSR, will also be improved. Thus, the console should allow its users to boost the number of FPS (frames per second displayed on the screen). With this new performance, Sony could well aim for 4K at 120 FPS. But who says better performance also says increase in the sale price. Several sources have indeed indicated that the console could be marketed between 600 and 650 euros, or more than 50 euros more than the standard version.
Conversely, others are working on another strategy. When the PS4 Pro was released, Sony lowered the starting price of its older consoles (PS4 and PS4 Slim) by 50 euros to set the price of its new version. The PS5 Pro could then follow the same logic and be marketed at the current price of the previous models: 549 euros. However, this information should be taken with a pinch of salt since the company has not yet officially communicated on the characteristics of its new machine.