The latest rumours for the PS5 Pro suggest developers will have access to devkits by the end of the year, ahead of a launch in late 2024.
The PlayStation 4 launched in November 2013 and by September 2016 the PS4 Pro had been announced, ahead of a November release. If everything was the same for the PlayStation 5 that means you’d expect to see the PS5 Pro announced this September.
Thanks to the pandemic it’s not sensible to assume anything will be that simple but there have already been rumours of a PS5 Pro and now one insider claims that they’re certain it’s in development and that it’s likely tracking for a Christmas 2024 launch.
Not only that but he claims that devkits – the special versions of the console used by developers to make games – will be going out to first party developers within ‘the next couple of months’ and to third party developers by the end of the year.
The problem with PS5 Pro rumours is that they’re so easy to fake, since you can just look at what happened with the PS4 Pro and make a reasonable guess.
However, insider Tom Henderson has claimed that while there’s always a chance Sony could change their plans he has a ‘100% degree of certainty’ that it is currently in development.
In the past, Henderson has been accurate about a variety of software related subjects, but he’s never had a proven success with hardware; although given he obviously does have insider sources there’s good reason to assume his information is accurate.
He’s spoken about a variety of new PlayStation hardware in recent months and in an article summarising the rumours he claims that Project Leonardo – Sony’s equivalent of the Xbox Adaptive Controller – will be out this Christmas.
He also suggests that new earbuds and a wireless headset will be out around the same time, along with the previously rumoured Q Lite portable device. This is not really a portable console but a device for using Remote Play on the PlayStation 5. It’s described as looking like a DualSense controller with a large screen in the middle, although there’s no indication of price yet.
The first new piece of hardware to be released, according to these predictions, is a redesigned version of the PlayStation 5 with a detachable disc drive. Henderson has been talking about this for months now and yet curiously no one else has mentioned it.
Nevertheless, he claims it will be released this September and will otherwise look very similar to the current model. If he’s right about that then there’s a lot more reason to believe his other predictions as well.
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