News hardware A PS5 Pro soon?
While the end-of-year AAA games are gently pointing the tip of their noses, data mining specialists have revealed a potential PS5 Pro. So is Sony planning a new console soon?
PS5 Pro development kits already sent by Sony?
Sony is trying to boost PS5 production a little for the end of 2022, but obviously the Japanese giant cannot satisfy everyone. At the same time, the development teams working on future PS5 licenses are beginning to count on ports to a new version of the Sony console.
It is via a forum dedicated to the news on GTA VI that a user called Tez2, known to be a very good finder of information, that the rumor started.
Most studios developing AAA games should have already received the dev kits to get started early in the new year
The user does not deny the information in front of other people on the forum. It is true that the PS5 will soon celebrate its two years next November. Even if a potential PS5 Pro was announced soon by Sony teams, we will surely have to wait until the end of 2023 to have it in our hands.. According to the PS4 model, the Pro version appeared in our stores three years after the basic version.
It is clear that if Sony wishes to develop games optimized for this more powerful console, the development kits would surely already be sent to the big developers, in particular the Japan Studios which create the games exclusive to the machine.
The developments of blockbuster video games are very long, generally between 4 and 6 years to develop a concrete projectand even if a port takes less time, we should see PS5 or even PS4 games arrive in “cleaner” versions, for example with 4K 120 Hz, without having to compromise between fluidity and resolution .
Last May, the TCL company was already planning a potential arrival of mid-generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony. Even if this information was more indicative to provide technologies to accompany these consoles, the arrival of a more powerful console would not be a surprise to anyone.
Now it only remains to know if what this PS5 Pro could bring. Indeed, the PS5 is already two years old and has hosted very few platform-specific exclusives. Many of the PS5’s blockbuster games were sequels and ports of PS4 releases. We could be entitled to know Sony’s plans for this mid-generation console, in particular on what it would offer as arguments to make us go to the checkout.
The PS5 is still rare in stores, if not simply not found. Prices have increased due to the very low cost of the euro against the dollar and the arrival of the PS5 Pro should force Sony to revise its prices downwards. At €549 per console, this is the first time that a gaming machine has increased in value (excluding retro gaming). The PS5 Pro could lower the prices of the initial version, if it does not want to be simply placed at an indecent price.
GTA VI is planned for the PS5 Pro?
As we all know, games from Rockstar Games take time to show up. Although Rockstar has officially announced the production of GTA VI, especially following the many leaks that have leaked on social networks, we have not yet seen official images of the title.
After a Red Dead Redemption II which took about 6 years to come out, we are waiting for the sequel to the GTA saga, the last title of which dates back to September 17, 2013 on PS3. The link with the PS5 Pro? It is quite possible that GTA VI will wait to show itself accompanied by the PS5 Pro, just to show well boosted performance on consoles.
Many players are eagerly awaiting the title and Rockstar has no room for error given the very high standards that the firm has established in the past. In any case, the major development studios should have already received the dev kits for the PS5 Pro. Namely, a machine of its kind is very different from the final console, as evidenced by the PS4 development kit.
