A PS5 Pro is coming — but is it really needed?
Sony’s most powerful PlayStation ever practically confirmed, here’s why it matters more than people realize
Rumors have been making the rounds for almost a year — they have been pretty consistent too — but we can now safely assume they are true: Sony has been developing an advanced, technologically superior version of the PlayStation5, codenamed Trinity, that is expected to arrive by the end of this year. It will be called PlayStation5 Pro and it will feature a similar but carefully upgraded hardware architecture, allowing it to deliver a significantly smoother gaming experience than the one currently offered by the PS5.
Tom Henderson broke the news about the PS5 Pro at some point in July 2023 but, at the time, technical details about it were rather scarce. During the months that followed several sources unofficially offered what were thought to be tentative PS5 Pro specs in several occasions, but they all seemed to gradually converge to what YouTuber Moore’s Law Is Dead revealed a few days ago as leaked information from Sony’s official developer portal. That information Henderson himself — whose track record of scoops includes the DualSense Edge controller, the PlayStation Portal and the PS5 Slim — has now confirmed to be accurate, so the PlayStation5 Pro is basically…
