The rumors about a release of the Playstation 5 Pro in 2024 are becoming increasingly clear. After industry insider Tom Henderson had already announced that the console would be released this year, analysts are now also assuming that Sony is taking this step. The background is the weak quarterly figures.
“This move is intended to bolster interest in the PlayStation 5 and offer beefed-up hardware ready for the 2025 release of Grand Theft Auto 6, one of the most hotly anticipated games of this decade, analysts said.”
The Playstation 5 has been on the market since 2020 and, like other products, was hardly available due to the difficult world situation. That has now changed and console manufacturers are struggling with demand. Microsoft is said to have experienced its miracle before Christmas when it was unable to sell Xbox consoles despite competitive prices.
Accordingly, you have to stimulate the market differently. A Pro model and the prospect of GTA 6 are good candidates. Sony had to significantly lower its expectations for the fiscal year – from 25 to 21 million units. A Sony executive said last week that Sony expects a “gradual decline” in sales starting next fiscal year.
“There seems to be a broad consensus in the gaming industry that Sony is indeed preparing to launch a PS5 Pro in the second half of 2024,” Serkan Toto, CEO of Tokyo-based gaming consultancy Kantan Games, told CNBC. “And Sony will want to make sure it has a great piece of hardware ready when GTA VI launches in 2025, a launch that will be a shot in the dark for the entire gaming industry.”
According to recent rumors, the Playstation 5 Pro will be developed under the code name “Trinity” and, thanks to the “Viola” APU, will be quite close to the Radeon RX 7800 XT. However, while some have already learned that the Playstation 5 Pro will be a real “4K ray tracing monster” based on Zen 4 and RDNA 3 with 60 CUs, 3,840 computing units and faster GDDR6 system memory, other sources contradict this see a much more subtle upgrade. The rumor mill has now developed more in this direction.