Cliff Notes – New PS5 Pro model leaked but this one won’t be a downgrade
- Sony has not officially confirmed the PS5 Slim or the upcoming PS5 Pro revision, despite listings appearing on European Amazon sites.
- The new PS5 Pro model (CFI-7121) is expected to launch in Europe on September 30, featuring the same design and 2TB storage as the current model, without any price increase.
- Despite being marketed as a more powerful console, the PS5 Pro has faced criticism for underperforming in certain third-party games, with no significant hardware changes anticipated in the new revision.
New PS5 Pro model leaked but this one won’t be a downgrade
It’s not a downgrade, but it doesn’t sound like a particularly substantial upgrade either (Sony)
Sony hasn’t even admitted to the first rumoured PS5 revision yet and there’s apparently a second one on the way, but for the PS5 Pro.
Earlier this month, it was rumoured that Sony would be launching a new model of the PlayStation 5 Slim; one with smaller storage space and yet the exact same price tag as the current model.
So far, Sony has not formally announced any such model (not even during the recent State of Play) although listings for it have appeared on select European Amazon sites.
Now, the same source of that rumour is talking about another revision, this time for the PS5 Pro, although it fortunately doesn’t sound like it’ll be any sort of downgrade.
This is all according to billbil-kun at Dealabs, who has frequently leaked new hardware in the past and has a 100% track record of accuracy. They also accurately claimed Alan Wake 2 would be one of October’s PlayStation Plus Essential games, before Sony’s official announcement during this week’s State of Play.
They assert that this new PS5 Pro model (labelled as CFI-7121) will launch in European markets starting from September 30, which is this coming Tuesday. However, they could not confirm if it will be made available in the Americas.
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As for what’s different about it, billbil-kun suggests any improvements will be quite minor, but they could confidently say that it will have the same design and 2TB of storage space as the current Pro model.
Unsurprisingly, this means it’s not any cheaper, but at least it won’t be more expensive. Billbil-kun only provides a European price of €799.99 (the region’s standard asking price for the PS5 Pro), so it can be safely assumed that it’ll cost £699.99 when it arrives in the UK.
The PS5 Pro, despite being touted as the more powerful iteration of the console, has garnered a reputation for being inferior to the standard model, with several third-party games looking and performing worse.
Just last month, fans bemoaned how Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater performs on the Pro model and while Silent Hill f (another Konami game) manages a stable 60 frames per second, a Digital Foundry video highlights how it suffers from shimmering, making the game look tangibly worse than how it does on a regular PlayStation 5.
It’s unlikely the new console model will feature any hardware changes that would address issues like this though and it’s probably just a revision that’s cheaper for Sony to manufacture, allowing them to make more profit and avoid having to raise the price.
Sony has already received plenty of flack for its decision to increase the price of the digital edition of the PlayStation 5 for a second time in select territories, including the UK, making it only £50 cheaper than the model with a disc drive.
It’s not just regular customers either. Capcom has publicly expressed some frustration with the console’s high asking price, calling it a ‘barrier’ that’s prevented Monster Hunter Wilds from selling even more copies than it already has.
The game still sold 10 million units in a month but sales have since dwindled sharper than Capcom would have liked (Capcom)
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