Reports Indicate the Launch of PS5 Pro During the Upcoming Holiday Season

In an act of full transparency: my gaming library already harbours copies of the esteemed Final Fantasy XVI and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for the impending PS5, despite the conspicuous absence of a PlayStation 5 console in my possession. My purchasing patterns veer away from the impulse to procure consoles upon their maiden advent, as I tend to bide my time, patiently awaiting the emergence of their subsequent iterations. Initially, I postulated that in the case of the PlayStation 5, it would be the slimmer version that would beckon me, however, a new contender has thrown its hat into the ring, likely to appear before this year reaches its denouement: The PlayStation 5 Pro.

The whistleblowing in regard to the forthcoming technology has been attributed to Tom Henderson, a force to be reckoned with in the realms of the Insider Gaming platform. Henderson purports that PS5 Pro details clandestinely revealed on the Moore’s Law is Dead YouTube channel originated from documents Sony had recently dispatched to third-party developers. It is essential to approach this revelation with a degree of scepticism, yet it would be remiss to overlook Henderson’s notable history of accurately predicting industry events.

Indeed, in the year of 2022, he accurately reported that Sony was fervently developing a ‘true professional controller’ for the PlayStation 5. This report surfaced a full two months prior to the officially sanctioned announcement of the DualSense Edge. Further testament to Henderson’s credibility was his successful exposure of Sony’s ambitious plans to manufacture a variant of the console harboring a detachable disc drive, a full annual cycle before Sony pulled back the curtain on the compact, feather-light PS5 model.

Preliminary evidence derived from leaks about the PS5 Pro strongly suggests that it will vend an amplified and unbroken frame rate (FPS) at 4K, in conjunction with a ‘performance mode’ calibrated for an 8K resolution. Rumours are rife with speculation that it will expedite the rendering of games by up to an astounding 45 percent, and its ray tracing capabilities could potentially outperform its non-professional, pedestrian equivalent by a factor of two or three. Supplementing this, the documents highlighted in the Moore’s Law is Dead expose indicate the PS5 Pro will employ a GPU with 67 Teraflops FP16 (33.5 Teraflops FP32) performance, promising unprecedented speed and enhanced graphical presentation.

Henderson prognosticates that Sony’s strategic marketing trajectory would ideally steer them towards a holiday release for the PS5 Pro, capitalising on the fervour typically associated with festive, shopping-heavy seasons. Evidently, this timeline remains malleable, open to modifications should Sony evaluate that the portfolio of first-party title releases this year is modest to the point of requiring delay.