A reader explores rumours of Sony releasing the PS5 Pro this year and realises it could make perfect sense for PlayStation.
Is the PS5 Pro the future of consoles? Sony hasn’t announced the PS5 Pro yet, but everyone knows it’s coming. There are leaks all the time and most of them seem to be pretty consistent, promising a bigger upgrade than from PlayStation 4 to PS4 Pro. All the rumours mention being better at ray-tracing, while the latest one says Sony has it’s own upscaling tech as well – so 4K and even 8K will presumably be the norm.
Maybe not at this exact moment, given the lack of first party games, but in general the PS5 Pro can be seen as what consoles in general will evolve into: expensive luxuries for hardcore gamers, that are of little use or interest to ordinary people. Once companies begin to focus even more on mobile and streaming, consoles are going to go the way of the VHS player.