Sony announces PS5 Pro, it’s most powerful and expensive gaming console

The Sony PS5 Pro will be on sale before Christmas 2024.

Sony's PS5 Pro includes 2 TB of internal storage. (Image credit: Sony)

Sony has finally unveiled the most anticipated and upgraded version of its popular gaming console, the PlayStation 5 Pro. It features a powerful graphics chip with support for improved ray-tracing and AI upscaling capability. Priced at $699.99, the console will be on sale starting November 7 in select markets. Sony has not yet revealed the India pricing and availability.

With a 40 per cent heftier price tag than the regular PS5 (review), the PS5 Pro lacks a Blu-ray disc drive, and just like the slim variant of the PS5, one can buy one separately along with coloured side panels, and upgrade the console.

According to Mark Cerny, Sony’s lead PlayStation system architect, “It’s the most powerful console we’ve ever built.” When compared to regular PS5, PS5 Pro is 45 per cent faster at graphics rendering and is meant to handle AAA titles in performance mode.

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Compared to the original PS5, the mid-cycle refresh PS5 Pro has a new AMD GPU with 67 per cent more compute units and 28 per cent faster memory. It also includes Sony’s PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) AI-backed upscaling capability.

The upgrade in hardware and AI enhancement will result in enhanced performance; titles like The Last of Us Part II, with improved fidelity, will run at 60fps instead of 30fps like on the regular PS5. The latest console from Sony also includes a new “Game Boost” technology, which makes PS5 Pro backwards compatible with over 8,500 PS4 games.

The PS5 Pro is the first console from Sony to support the latest Wi-Fi 7 networking, and it also packs double the storage––2 TB––while still including an additional NVMe SSD slot for storage expansion.

Sony is also remastering some of the popular PS5 titles for the new PS5 Pro, calling them PS5 Pro-enhanced games. This includes popular names like Alan Wake 2, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, and more.

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These games will offer smooth 60fps gameplay on PS5 Pro at 4K resolution, and some of these titles should also run smoothly at 8K with improved ray-tracing.