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Sony is celebrating the fact that the PS5 console shortage is all but over, and now there are rumblings that a PS5 Pro is coming.
Spotted on Insider Gaming, Tom Henderson reports that Sony is sticking to the formula it started with the PS4 console and is dropping a PS5 Pro model. Henderson says sources indicate this new model will release sometime later this year.
Henderson notes in his reporting that the rumored PS5 model with the detachable hard drive is not the PS5 Pro model and is still coming sometime later this year and ” will phase out the current PlayStation 5 to cut down on production and shipping costs.”
Per Insider Gaming:
As for what the PS5 specs will entail, details are limited. However, a recently-published patent by PlayStation architect Mark Cerny (spotted by @Onion00048) suggests that Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking to “accelerate” ray tracing performance in video games.
One source tells Henderson that the detachable disc drive is “just the beginning of new hardware coming to PlayStation users this generation.”
We could get a small preview of what Sony is cooking very soon. In a February Gaming Mess Decides podcast episode, Jeff Grub says Sony is planning to host a big PlayStation Showcase “before E3.” Most believe we could finally see more of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, other games on the horizon, and new hardware.
Do We Need A PS5 Pro?
Still, the question remains, do we need a PS5 Pro? There are still plenty of people on this planet who don’t own a PS5, and those who just bought one might be looking at this report wondering if they should have waited.
Again, these are just rumors, and we are going to have to wait to see what Sony is cooking, but make no mistake, Sony is riding a wave of momentum as their console continues to outsell the competition and pumps out great exclusive games like God of War: Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West.
In the gallery below, you can see more reactions to Sony possibly hitting us with a PS5 Pro console.
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1. Aren’t they releasing games?
sony making a PS5 Pro? Why not just make some games bro
pic.twitter.com/pYcr2xAiza
— Jeff (@gamingmeanie) March 14, 2023
2. True
Can't say I'm excited for this. The increasingly minimal differences in console generations doesn’t feel like it needs even more granularity to me. I'd rather games get better optimized for this look gen until substantially better tech available.
https://t.co/Y0Hvw1gt5C— Tom Happ (@AxiomVerge) March 14, 2023
3. That damn ray tracing
Really curious what a PS5 Pro would be priced at and how Sony would market it. Ray Tracing hasn't really caught on that well and it is an apparent problem the Pro is looking to solve. pic.twitter.com/4wlVzINg01
— Spawn Wave (@SpawnWaveMedia) March 14, 2023
4. Jeff Grubb with some insight.
We got a PS4 Pro when we did because the PS4 was falling in price. Is PS5 really going to need a pro model to keep average sales price high? And ray tracing isn't a mid-gen refresh feature. Games will get baked lighting as well for years, and that will continue to look great.
— Grubb (@JeffGrubb) March 14, 2023
5. LOL
Y'all ready for a $650 PS5 Pro w/ $70 Remake of Horizon Zero Dawn lmfao https://t.co/R87qslIA1G pic.twitter.com/R91LFZ13Do
— TM06
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Dragon Quest (@trsrpc) March 14, 2023
6. Facts
You know we're getting close to E3/Summer Game Fest when the Switch Pro and PS5 Pro rumors start blowing up again.
— Mi
les (@MilesDompier) March 14, 2023
8.
Why would anyone make a PS5 Pro when there are scarcely any actual PS5-only games at this point AND demand for the launch model is only starting to be met AND the Series S is going to continue setting the benchmark for third-party development?
— Anthony John Agnello (@ajohnagnello) March 14, 2023
9. Xbox stay catching strays
We've just had PSVR 2, there's whispers of a PS5Pro….and yet poor little Xboners are still just waiting for a game.
Say it ain't so… pic.twitter.com/yXdQbHI1Kp
— Banterbox (@BoxDone) March 14, 2023
10.
PS4 Pro and Xbox One X models appeared mid seasons because of the increased availability and affordability of 4K televisions. It was a time where hardware needed to be upgraded as 1080/720 was starting to look dated. This PS5 Pro talk makes no sense to me
— MVG
GDC2023 (@ModernVintageG) March 14, 2023
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