The PlayStation 5 Pro, an upgraded version of Sony’s best-selling video game console that is said to deliver several improvements over the current models, including 45% faster GPU rendering and 3x faster ray tracing performance, is still on track for a 2024 release, echoing reports from earlier this year about how the console would be launching by holiday 2024, according to the latest information shared by industry insiders. State of Play, the series of live-streamed events that Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) traditionally hosts to share new PlayStation content, including gameplay trailers, will reportedly return in September.
Jeff Grubb said:
- “Last I heard, this thing [PS5 Pro] is still coming out this year.”
- “And more recently what I’ve heard is there is probably going to be a State of Play…a Sony PlayStation State of Play…not a Showcase…a State of Play, at the end, by the end of September.”
- “I don’t know if the PS5 Pro is in this State of Play…but where else would it be?”
- “I think State of Play…end of September…and then you sell this thing beginning in October, even, or maybe November…this thing is going to release this year.”
- “The pricing for this…what are you thinking? I’m sticking to $600.”
The original word from Jeff Grubb:
Another journalist suggesting that devs have delayed their games for PS5 Pro:
The Verge reported in April:
While Sony is improving the GPU side of the PS5 Pro, the CPU will be the same as the standard PS5 but with a new mode that clocks it higher. “Trinity has a mode that targets 3.85GHz CPU frequency,” says Sony in a document to developers. That’s around 10 percent more than the regular PS5. Sony will offer developers the ability to pick between a “standard mode” at 3.5GHz or the “high CPU frequency mode” at 3.85GHz.