New details have emerged about the PS5 Pro, which is due to be announced later this month. A recent leak claimed the PS5 Pro would be slightly bigger than the PS5 Slim, and would feature three black stripes across the faceplate. As part of Sony’s 30th anniversary celebrations for the launch of the original PlayStation, the company appears to have confirmed the design choice in a very subtle way. As you can see from the pictures below, the 30th Anniversary poster contains faint images of various PlayStation hardware and peripherals. In the zoomed in image further down the page, you can clearly see that this includes a picture of the previously leaked PS5 Pro, complete with the three stripes running across the centre.
The inclusion of the PS5 Pro in the anniversary artwork suggests that Sony is on the verge of officially announcing the device, and that it should launch in November as previously reported.
It also proves that the recent leak was true, which has slightly more worrying implications about the cost of the device.
Indeed, according to the recent rumour, the PS5 Pro may not launch with a built-in disc-drive.
It’s more likely that Sony will go down the PS5 Slim route, where disc-drives can be purchased separately and attached to the hardware.
While this would keep costs down for fans of digital media, the millions of PlayStation fans who prefer physical games will have to pay extra.
We’ll find out more when Sony announces the PS5 Pro in this month’s PlayStation State of Play event, which could take place as early as next week.
Still, with previous reports suggesting that the PS5 Pro will be far better equipped to handle Unreal Engine 5 games (compared to the regular PS5), things are certainly looking up for fans of the PlayStation.
According to the Sony documents, the PS5 Pro should perform about 45% faster than the current model. The larger GPU will reportedly use faster system memory to improve ray-tracing by up to three times.
The PS5 Pro CPU will be the same as the current model, but will have a mode that can increase performance by around 10%.
“Trinity has a mode that targets 3.85GHz CPU frequency,” reads a report on The Verge. “Sony will offer developers the ability to pick between a ‘standard mode’ at 3.5GHz or the ‘high CPU frequency mode’ at 3.85GHz.”
Finally, developers will have access to more system memory with the PS5 Pro, which should make it easier to improve resolutions and increase frame-rates.
Games that deliver significant improvements will reportedly ship with a PS5 Pro Enhanced tag to make it easier for the customer to identify titles that utilise the console’s superior architecture.