According to Giant Bomb reporter Jeff Grubb's claims, Sony is planning to release a PlayStation 5 Pro console in late 2024. Grubb claimed that he was able to confirm charges that Sony was working on an intermediate iteration of the PS5. He stated bravely.
"That PS5 Pro leak is almost certainly real based on what I’ve heard now, and obviously I’m not the only one out there saying that, but I can throw my ‘confirm, confirm, confirm’ into the ring for everybody,"
According to Grubb's research, the system is expected to be released in September 2024. He did, however, stress that the present standards are still in flux as they investigate other options.
"The current specs are based on a range of possibilities because they have not actually fully dialled that in," Grubb said. Notably, he highlighted a key component of the prospective PS5 Pro, adding,
"The big thing here, like the big feature that this system will support, is Sony’s own proprietary DLSS-like solution, where they use their own machine learning to improve images so they can run things at a really high resolution and really high frame rate, and they would include their own hardware in the PS5 Pro to do this."
Nvidia graphics cards are the only ones that support DLSS, or deep learning super sampling. It uses artificial intelligence to boost game resolution on the PC platform, allowing developers to achieve greater graphical settings and frame rates on less powerful hardware.
"The 2x hardware ray tracing acceleration kicks in, but they'll be able to do more than just better hardware ray tracing." So, yeah, this thing is probably occurring," Grubb said of the PS5 Pro.
In related developments, Microsoft's legal documents Earlier last summer, Microsoft hinted at Sony's plans to sell PS5 Slim and Pro consoles. The PS5 Slim was then released in November.
Sony has set a lofty goal of shipping 25 million PS5 consoles during its current fiscal year, which ends in March 2024. If achieved, this will break the original PlayStation's 25-year-old console sales record of 22.6 million systems supplied in a 12-month period.