Japanese group Sony announced on Tuesday the launch of a more powerful version of its Playstation 5 console, the “PS5 Pro”, available worldwide from November 7 for 800 euros (250 euros more than the classic version).
“This is the most powerful console we’ve ever built,” said Mark Cerny, Sony’s lead console architect since the PlayStation 4, during an online presentation of the brand.
He detailed for nearly nine minutes the characteristics of this new high-end version without a disc player.
The PS5 Pro promises to be 45% faster than the classic version, will have improved “ray-tracing” (rendering of the trajectory of light rays, editor’s note) and will use artificial intelligence to improve the graphics of games.
While it is customary for players on the latest generations of consoles to have to choose between a game mode with the best graphics, to the detriment of fluidity, or another more stable but less detailed one, Mark Cerny affirms that they “will no longer have to decide between the two” thanks to this new version.
With the PS5 Pro, Sony hopes to revitalize its Playstation branch, which announced at the end of February the elimination of 900 jobs, or 8% of its global workforce.
In 2016, the Japanese manufacturer had already played the improved console card with the release of a Playstation 4 Pro, a more powerful version of its machine released in 2013.
But as Daniel Ahmad, an analyst at Niko Parners, pointed out in a message posted on X before Tuesday’s announcement, “the PS4 Pro represented less than 15% of sales” of the PS4, which has sold more than 117 million units in nearly 10 years.
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