Here's When Sony May Launch An Upgraded PlayStation 5 Pro Game Console

It's hard to believe it, but it's already been more than two years since the launch of the PlayStation 5. That system released on November 12th, 2020—not that anyone could find one at that time. This November will mark the 3rd year since the console's release, and that's the same interval between the release of the PlayStation 4 and its "Pro" revision. Could Sony release an updated PS5 in the same fashion?


Does it make any sense for Sony to launch a PS5 Pro? Well, that's a whole other discussion. The PS5's eight Zen 2 CPUs and expansive RDNA 2 GPU have barely even been tested by native titles as most games are still being produced in a fashion that straddles generations between the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5. Native PS5 games are rare enough that we can count them on our hands, even more than two years in.

Sony has expressed interest in improving the ray-tracing performance of the PlayStation. The company filed a patent back in 2020 on the idea of invoking a ray-tracing accelerator through shader code, which sounds a lot like the way ray-tracing is done in current "hybrid"-rendered games that mix raster graphics and ray-traced effects.