UPDATE: PlayStation 5 Professional will launch in Singapore on November 7, 2024 with Steered Retail Value (SRP) of SGD 1,069. Pre-order will start from September 26, 2024 in participating retailers
Over the final 4 years since the launch of PS5, we’ve labored laborious to repeatedly evolve the console expertise and ship the nice games our gamers count on from us. Right now, I’m extremely proud to announce the subsequent step in that evolution and welcome PlayStation 5 Professional to the PlayStation household – our most superior and revolutionary console {hardware} to date.
We developed PS5 Professional with deeply engaged gamers and sport creators in thoughts – as many have requested for a console that runs even greater constancy graphics with smoother body charges at 60FPS. We achieved this on PS5 Professional with a number of key efficiency options.*
- Upgraded GPU: With PS5 Professional, we’re upgrading to a GPU that has 67% extra Compute Items than the present PS5 console and 28% quicker reminiscence. General, this permits up to 45% quicker rendering for gameplay, making the expertise a lot smoother.
- Superior Ray Tracing: We’ve added much more highly effective ray tracing that gives extra dynamic reflection and refraction of sunshine. This enables the rays to be solid at double, and at occasions triple, the speeds of the present PS5 console.
- AI-Pushed Upscaling: We’re additionally introducing PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision, an AI-driven upscaling that makes use of a machine learning-based expertise to present tremendous sharp picture readability by including a unprecedented quantity of element.
PS5 Professional offers avid gamers with superb graphics at excessive body charges. You possibly can hear Mark Cerny, lead architect for PS5 Professional, focus on the key improvements from PS5 Professional in the following video presentation. This presentation offers a deep dive into the key efficiency options that make PS5 Professional really particular.
Different enhancements embrace PS5 Professional Recreation Enhance, which may apply to greater than 8,500 backward appropriate PS4 games playable on PS5 Professional. This function could stabilize or enhance the efficiency of supported PS4 and PS5 games. Enhanced Picture High quality for PS4 games can also be accessible to enhance the decision on choose PS4 games. PS5 Professional will even launch with the newest wi-fi expertise, Wi-Fi 7, in territories supporting this normal. VRR and 8K gaming are additionally supported.
It’s humbling to see how sport creators have embraced the newest expertise from PS5 Professional, and several other games will likely be patched with free software program updates for avid gamers to benefit from PS5 Professional’s options. These games will be recognized with a PS5 Professional Enhanced label inside their title. Some games you’ll be able to look ahead to embrace blockbuster hits from PlayStation Studios and our third-party companions, akin to Alan Wake 2, Murderer’s Creed: Shadows, Demon’s Souls, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Remaining Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Gran Turismo 7, Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Forbidden West, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Aside, The Crew Motorfest, The First Descendant, The Final of Us Half II Remastered, and extra.
We saved the look of the PS5 Professional in line with the total PS5 household of merchandise. You’ll discover the peak is the identical dimension as the unique PS5, and the width is the identical dimension as the present PS5 mannequin to accommodate greater efficiency specs. Gamers can add an Extremely HD Blu-ray Disc Drive, or swap out console covers once they change into accessible.
PS5 Professional matches completely inside the PS5 household of merchandise and is appropriate with the PS5 equipment at present accessible, together with PlayStation VR2, PlayStation Portal, DualSense Edge, Entry controller, Pulse Elite and Pulse Discover. The consumer interface and community companies will even stay the identical as PS5.
The PS5 Professional console will likely be accessible this vacation at a producer’s recommended retail worth (MSRP) of $699.99 USD, £699.99 GBP, €799.99 EUR, and ¥119,980 JPY (contains tax). It’s going to embrace a 2TB SSD, a DualSense wi-fi controller and a duplicate of Astro’s Playroom pre-installed in each PS5 Professional buy. PS5 Professional is out there as a disc-less console, with the possibility to buy the at present accessible Disc Drive for PS5 individually.
PS5 Professional will launch on November 7, 2024 and will likely be accessible at participating retailers. Preorders will start on September 26, 2024.
Our PS5 journey wouldn’t be attainable with out the hundreds of thousands of gamers which have supported us via the years and have shared with us their love of gaming. Whichever console possibility gamers select, whether or not it’s PS5 or PS5 Professional, we want to deliver everybody the absolute best gaming expertise that matches their wants.
*Options solely accessible on choose PS5 games which have been enhanced for PS5 Professional when in contrast with the PS5. PS5 Professional enhanced options will range by sport.