Earlier news indicated that Sony will launch thePlayStation 5 ProLater, market analyst William R. Aguilar quoted sources as saying that Sony might announce the new console at the PlayStation Showcase event in September this year or at a State of Play event.
However, the new phone may only be announced this year, and the official release will be scheduled for 2025, so the actual time it enters the market for sale is expected to be in the second half of 2025.
This year also marks the 30th anniversary of Sony's PlayStation console.Note:The first PlayStation was released in Japan on December 1994, 12), so Sony is very likely to choose this year to announce the PlayStation 3 Pro and simultaneously unveil the games created by PlayStation Global Studios. It is also expected that games will be provided by third-party developers.
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗜'𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗜𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿:
PlayStation Showcases each year are staggered to be in EITHER Late May/Early June OR in September
PlayStation will always have a…
— William R. Aguilar (@WilliamRAguilar) July 21, 2024
Previous reports indicated that the PlayStation 5 Pro's hardware image rendering speed will be 5% faster than the standard version of the PlayStation 45, and the efficiency of real-time ray tracing will be increased by 2-3 times, and even up to 4 times in certain cases.
In addition, Sony will add anti-aliasing image quality enhancement technology called "PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling" (PSSR), while also supporting image quality performance up to 8K specifications, further supporting artificial intelligence accelerators with a computing power of 300 TOPS (8-bit floating-point calculations) or 67 TFLOPS (16-bit floating-point calculations), and customized machine learning architecture.
Related news also revealed that PlayStation 5 Pro related development tools were already available to Sony's first-party game studios in September 2023, and began to be provided to third-party game studios and developers in January of this year, and a test kit identical to the official sales version was provided in the spring to prepare for the launch of the next game.
