So finally, PS5 pro has been announced, and it is coming by November 2024. The official trailer has also been released.Till date, we have heard a lot of fake news about the PS5 Pro, but now Sony itself has officially confirmed that it is bringing the PS5 Pro. Let’s find out how good the PS5 Pro is compared to the PS5.
Mark Cerny, lead architect of the PS5 console, says the PS5 Pro improves upon the original console in three key ways: a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and custom AI-powered upscaling.It will have features like AI frame generation due to which we can expect 4K at 60fps.This is going to be the most powerful console ever in the gaming world.
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The PS5 Pro will launch on November 7, priced at $699.99, and looks just like a slim version of the PS5—aas a recent leak revealed. It has three stripes on the side, and it doesn’t come with a disc drive. You’ll be able to buy a 4K Blu-ray Disc drive and optional console cover separately. “This is the most powerful console ever,” says Cerny. According to Cerny, the hardware upgrades inside will result in 45 percent faster rendering and should improve detail in some games and frame rates. One of the main reasons for the PS5 Pro is that PS5 Pro players don’t have to choose Performance mode instead of Fidelity mode. “Players choose performance about three-quarters of the time,” says Cerny.
Sony is also including a PS5 Pro “Game Boost” option, which will apply to more than 8,500 backward-compatible PS4 games for the PS5 Pro. “This feature may stabilize or improve the performance of supported PS4 and PS5 games,” says Hideaki Nishino, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s platform business group. “Enhanced Image Quality for PS4 games is also available to improve the resolution on select PS4 games.”
The PS5 Pro will also support Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, VRR, and 8K resolutions, and CNET’s Scott Stein, who got an early hands-on with the console, says it now comes with a larger 2TB solid-state drive and swaps one of its rear USB-A ports for an extra USB-C port instead. It’ll also still include an extra SSD slot for expansion, too, he says.
Games will need to be patched to take advantage of some of the PS5 Pro’s features, and Sony says developers are readying free software updates to existing titles that will be labeled as PS5 Pro Enhanced games—uup to 50 of them by its November 7th launch, according to CNET.
The first PS5 Pro Enhanced games will include Alan Wake 2, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Demon’s Souls, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Gran Turismo 7, Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Forbidden West, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, The Crew Motorfest, The First Descendant, and The Last of Us Part II Remastered.
Of the initial batch of titles, most should now simply feature 4K resolution and 60fps frame rate, but CNET also got to try Gran Turismo 7 in a new 8K mode and a 4K ray-tracing mode. Developers can also reportedly add volumetric lighting or even show you more characters in the background of a scene.
The PS5 Pro is also compatible with the PlayStation VR2 headset—wwhere Cerny told CNET it would eventually support higher-resolution games—tthe PlayStation Portal handheld, and existing PS5 controllers. Sony says it’s not changing the UI or network services for the PS5 Pro, so those will be identical to the existing console.
Preorders for the PS5 Pro will start on September 26th, ahead of the launch at retailers on November 7th.
