Poll: *The Official PlayStation (PS5/PS5 Pro) Thread*

Will you be buying a PS5 Pro on release?

  • Yes

    Votes: 52 15.2%

  • No (not at £700 Lol)

    Votes: 197 57.8%

  • No (other)

    Votes: 75 22.0%

  • Pancake

    Votes: 17 5.0%
  • Total voters
    341
Vandle said:
This is not what I thought it was. :confused: It's rubbish, don't waste your time. Most bikes you can have in a game is 4 and it takes ages to get into a lobby and get a game started.
I thought you could have like 30 bikes racing downhill at once. Am I thinking of something else?
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Riders Republic?
 
Had there been any more news of a Pro or Slim version?

I find the odd rumour here and there, nothing concrete. Always hung on until a slim version comes along but I'm not even sure that's happening this time around.
 
adidan said:
Had there been any more news of a Pro or Slim version?

I find the odd rumour here and there, nothing concrete. Always hung on until a slim version comes along but I'm not even sure that's happening this time around.
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Nothing official yet but reading between all the rumours and news out there slim by end of year and pro edition 2024... I'm not fussed about the slim version unless my ps5 digital breaks but I'll definitely get the pro version in 2024! Using the ps5 loads more than my Xbox series x still and I'm seriously considering selling the Xbox. Everything I play or interested in plays better on the ps5 and the player base is much larger for games like battlefield 2042 and cod, apex with crossplay off
 
rchads89 said:
Nothing official yet but reading between all the rumours and news out there slim by end of year and pro edition 2024... I'm not fussed about the slim version unless my ps5 digital breaks but I'll definitely get the pro version in 2024!
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Honestly can't see there being either a slim or a pro, especially as they haven't yet released the almost certainly confirmed version with the detachable disk drive yet. This likely will also include a cost reduced motherboard etc and is as close to a slim as you are likely to see for a while.

As for a Pro, again cannot see that happening whilst there are still games being developed that target base PS4 as well as PS5. Whilst it's "easy" to make games scale up, it's another platform to have to test against
 
DIABLO said:
Pigs will fly before there is a Pro PS5.
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I'm confident there won't be a PS5 Pro. Since the original model was released, costs of silicon/hardware has increased and technology hasn't improved enough to justify a mid-gen upgrade. I could see a "slim" model being released, and perhaps with a larger amount of storage, but nothing more than that.
 
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Armageus said:
Honestly can't see there being either a slim or a pro, especially as they haven't yet released the almost certainly confirmed version with the detachable disk drive yet. This likely will also include a cost reduced motherboard etc and is as close to a slim as you are likely to see for a while.

As for a Pro, again cannot see that happening whilst there are still games being developed that target base PS4 as well as PS5. Whilst it's "easy" to make games scale up, it's another platform to have to test against
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Id say the PS5 alone is doing just fine for now and they only have been out there to buy on the shelf last 3 months or so people have only really just started picking them up
 
xaldub said:
I'm confident there won't be a PS5 Pro. Since the original model was released, costs of silicon/hardware has increased and technology hasn't improved enough to justify a a mid-gen upgrade. I could see a "slim" model being released, and perhaps with a larger amount of storage, but nothing more than that.
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For the reasons you said plus the PS4 was released to address 4k which has become pretty widespread at the time an easy sell to the public. What would a PS5 Pro address, Ray tracing/60? I think that would be a tough sell to the public. Plus it would add even development time to already very long game production times.
 
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It is pretty well accepted that a model will be released later this year without optical drive - and instead there will be an option, external drive. One would assume that the unit will be "smaller and slimmer" - even if not marketed as a slim.
Cooling is always going to be an issue, if they can find a way to make the whole thing smaller and not have any thermal issues then of course they will do it.
I remain unconvinced there will be a Pro. Usual suspects making their usual claims - it amazes me how short memory people have. During the lead up to the PS5 release, these very same usual suspects make some outrageous claims about the thing, which were nothing more than finger in the air claims - yet people are falling over themselves to trust them this time.
I still remember when one complete nobody said there was going to be a PS5 Pro at release - two consoles, one for the "power gamer" and then all the usual sites jumped on the wagon.

It's a safe claim to make and nothing to lose.
If they are right, then how amazing of them, they reported it a year earlier (I say reported it). If they are wrong, they will claim it was under production, but scrapped.....or something equally made up.
I really hate this whole "scatter-gun" journalism, where sites pepper us with stories, many of which are made-up in house. All they need to do is get one thing right, and suddenly they are the authority on all this.
 
xaldub said:
I'm confident there won't be a PS5 Pro. Since the original model was released, costs of silicon/hardware has increased and technology hasn't improved enough to justify a a mid-gen upgrade. I could see a "slim" model being released, and perhaps with a larger amount of storage, but nothing more than that.
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Yep precisely.

Even a slim is unlikely in the traditional sense - a slim console requires a significant upgrade in fab technology so you can make the same chip with a lower TDP and therefore use less heatsink, heatpipes and fans and a smaller power supply. That hasn't happened in the traditional sense - Sony could ask TSMC to make the PS5 on 5nm or 4nm but it will increase the price of the ps5 significantly, so there is no point. That's why Sony is playing around with an idea of a wired bluray drive so it can make a console smaller by removing the driver and allowing users to use the type c usb port to connect an external bluray drive.

As for the PS5 Pro; the PS5's GPU is roughly on par with an RTX2080 or RX6650XT. With the PS4 and PS4 Pro, the Pro was rated for a bit more than double the GPU performance (1.9 teraflop to 4.2 teraflop).
For this to happen again; Sony would need to ask AMD to build an SOC with double the GPU power and that would place the PS5 Pro on par with an RX7900XT, a $899 PC graphics card. There are too many reasons why this is impractical - cost is a major driver, the PS5 Pro with the same performance uplift as the PS4 Pro got, would likely need to cost a minimum of $999 USD, it would likely also need to be produced on 3nm to get the power draw down, otherwise the PS5 Pro will need to be the same of a mid tower PC case. The size of the PS5 Pro console, the cost to build it, the high heat output and therefore noise and high power draw would lead to a device that has poor sales and will review poorly.

In all likely hood, we will only get a PS5 Pro once AMD is able to manufacture a xx60 series GPU that has double the performance of the base PS5 and that's not going to happen this year. Maybe at the end of next year it will be possible but it will require 3nm fabrication which is damn expensive, so you're still looking at a $600 or $700 PS5 Pro console and a possible launch only in 2025
 
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