There has been news that Sony will launch a PS5 mid-term facelift, which will not improve performance, so many netizens believe that Sony will not launch PS5 Pro, but directly launch PS6. However, the latest news from a well-known whistleblower said that they have confirmed that Sony PS5 Pro is under intense development and is tentatively scheduled for official release at the end of 2024.
The whistleblower has previously publicly stated that the PS5 Pro may not be launched because it has not obtained more specific information about the model. Now the whistleblower swears that Sony is developing the PS5 Pro, and must have had enough credible intelligence. It is worth noting that the whistleblower has accurately disclosed the information related to the Sony PS series many times before, which is very reliable.
From the current PS5 performance, only 4K60 frames and the so-called 4K120 frames and 8K resolution are supported, and as of now, more than two years have passed since the PS5 was released, and 8K resolution has not been achieved. At the same time, although PS5 supports ray tracing technology, if the game wants to open the complete ray tracing function, the game frame rate is only 30 frames, which is obviously not enough for the next generation of game consoles to meet the needs of players.
Therefore, PS5 Pro is very likely to focus on ray tracing performance improvement like PS4 Pro's main upgrade resolution. The PS5 Pro may be able to maintain a stable and smooth 60-frame game with full ray tracing enabled. However, at present, if the PC wants to fully experience ray tracing technology in 4K resolution, it is bound to use the most powerful graphics card, such as the RTX 3090 series or even the latest RTX 4080 level graphics card, which is really difficult for the PS5 game console that costs only about 4,000 yuan.
Therefore, if PS5 Pro wants to achieve 4K60 frame complete ray tracing performance, it is very likely to use FSR3.0 technology, which is AMD's official game frame rate enhancement technology. However, if you want to launch an upgraded PS5 Pro while balancing performance and price, Sony is still facing a lot of problems, but in the face of current internal and external troubles, Sony can only fight a battle.
It is reported that after the Sony State of Play event, the upcoming PS launch will be a "grand" event that will be used by Sony to showcase/outline "the second phase of the PS5". Allegedly, there will be a large number of first-party game appearances at that time. "Sony is hiding its real goodies, and that's what's happening, and they're keeping their goodies for that PlayStation showcase, scheduled for E3," it said. And it was supposed to arrive last fall, but they kept putting it off because their developers weren't ready. Those developers are now ready and they should have a big show to reveal the second phase of the PS5. ”
However, the second stage referred to here is most likely to be the mid-term facelift PS5 that Sony will launch, and Sony has begun to test the new PS5, which is not a half-generation performance upgrade like PS4 Pro, but a small facelift in structure, which does not actually help in terms of performance upgrades. The biggest change to this new PS5 is that it will come with a detachable optical drive that will connect to the PS5 using an additional USB-C port on the back of the console.
It is reported that Sony will launch a PS5 mid-term facelift model this year to provide players with more choices, while PS5 Pro will be tentatively released at the end of 2024. In addition, Sony's next-generation game console PS6 may appear after 2028, which is one of the reasons why Sony will choose to launch PS5 Pro in 2024.