The PS5 Professional can be introduced in mid-September and can seemingly hit retailer cabinets someday through the vacation season, in accordance with . The knowledge was introduced forth by a , who has a fairly good monitor document for leaking upcoming video games and {hardware}.
Right here’s what the leaker has laid out. Take all of this with a grain of salt, because it’s not coming from Sony. Initially, it’ll really be referred to as the PS5 Professional. This was assumed, based mostly on the PS4 Professional, however we didn’t have any precise naming particulars. The consumer claims to have entry to the packaging design, however didn’t really feel comfy sharing copyrighted photographs. As a substitute, they sketched out the packaging, as seen beneath.
As you may see, the design is much like the PS5 Slim, with a white colorway. We don’t know if it’ll be obtainable in different colours past white. There seems to be three black stripes throughout the center, which is a brand new design aspect. These stripes might double as cooling vents however, once more, we simply do not know.
The leaker additionally doesn’t know if the console could have a disc drive, although it has been theorized that it might ship and not using a drive so as to preserve prices down. It’s equally unclear if there can be two variations of the PS5 Professional, one with a disc drive and a digital-only version.
Adidas x PS5… (no, simply joking) 😅
The wait is over!
It took me a while to complete the drawing,
Right here is the ultimate design of PS5 Professional with many different particulars together with:
📅 Announcement window
💿 All Digital?
🎮 Included Controller#PS5Pro https://t.co/Egkav2XiV9— billbil-kun (@billbil_kun) August 29, 2024
The report additionally signifies that the console will ship with the identical normal DualSense controller that comes with the unique PS5 and the PS5 Slim. The leaker, nevertheless, affords no info concerning inner specs. In different phrases, we’re nonetheless (principally) at midnight in regards to the “Pro” a part of the PS5 Professional.
To that finish, there have been different leaks that trace on the console’s energy. Again in March, a YouTuber leaked official documentation from Sony that defined a few of the console’s specs. The doc is believed to be professional by IGN and different websites, however the video has since been taken down at Sony’s behest.
The video urged that the forthcoming console could have the identical CPU as the usual PS5, however that there can be a “High CPU Frequency Mode” that pushes the chipset by ten p.c to three.85GHz. It has additionally been indicated that the GPU can be powered by 33.5 teraflops versus the usual PS5’s 10.28 teraflops.
This doesn’t imply that the PS5 Professional can be thrice higher at rendering than the common PS5. There have been current adjustments in AMD’s structure that make it troublesome to immediately evaluate teraflops between the PS5 and the PS5 Professional, . The leak suggests a forty five p.c uptick with rendering.
Sony has filed a copyright strike in opposition to the PS5 Professional leak video from Moore’s Regulation is Lifeless. The video has been faraway from YouTube pic.twitter.com/lxv5jS9CMY
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) April 15, 2024
In any occasion, it positive seems like (and even days) away from an official announcement from Sony. Right here’s to hoping the PS5 Professional gained’t completely .