a mildly confusing new offering, a new PS5 to eventually replace the current one. You can buy a disc-based one for the same price, or you can buy a digital one, now $50 more expensive, and add a sold-separately disc drive later. So, the console got slimmer but the price went up.by Tom Henderson’s Insider-Gaming for a long while now, as they always maintained that their sources had indicated it was very real. And sure enough, here we are.
The original article was from back in March of 2023, confirming that the PS5 Pro was in fact in development. And the targeted release was going to be the holiday window of 2024., talked about higher FPS stability targets, an 8K performance mode and accelerated ray tracing. Not shocking for an attempt at an upgrade like this.
The question now, however, is not really whether the PS5 Pro is real, but A) what it will cost and B) if it’s even really necessary this console generation.Berlin, Germany, 08 November 2016. The teams from Sony Interactive Entertainment Deutschland, Sony Electronics, and ToLL Relations presented the new hardware in Berlin. The PS4 Pro arrived at $400, the same prices the PS4 itself launched at.
Does the market need a PS5 Pro? We were already about two years delayed in a lot of people getting the base unit thanks to mass shortages. The Pro would already be delayed a year past when the PS4 Pro came out relative to the original. But if this ends up being a long console generation, maybe not ending until 2027 or 2028, yeah, it probably seems like it will make sense eventually, even many players aren’t beating down the doors for one right at launch.