A YouTuber has leaked some insider paperwork that reveals what future plans Sony has in store for the next PlayStation hardware. The channel Moore's Law Is Dead showcased what are purportedly internal documents directly from PlayStation's developer portal, stating that a PlayStation 5 Pro is allegedly in the works.

According to these papers, Sony aims to have a PS5 Pro--codenamed Trinity--out for the 2024 holiday season, with the system boasting major performance increases over the original PS5. Supposedly, the PlayStation 5 Pro will offer 33.5 teraflops, compared to the PlayStation 5's current 10.28 teraflops, and will utilize Sony's own in-house developed upscaling software, which will provide benefits similar to AMD's FSR or NVIDIA's DLSS, with the potential to upscale up to 8K resolution. Further features are listed below.

• Rendering 45% faster than PS5
• 2-3x Ray-tracing (x4 in some cases)
• 33.5 Teraflops
• PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling) upscaling/antialiasing solution
• Support for resolutions up to 8K is planned for future SDK version
• Custom machine learning architecture
• AI Accelerator, supporting 300 TOPS of 8 bit computation / 67 TFLOPS of 16-bit floating point

While Moore's Law Is Dead has a hit and miss track record when it comes to leaking accurate information, another reputable outlet for leaks named Insider-Gaming claimed that the information within the video was true, and that Trinity devkits had been sent out to developers as early as September 2023, reiterating the claims of a holiday 2024 launch window for the console.

Source: Insider-Gaming
Source: Moore's Law is Dead

 

[osaka35]

...there better be a disc version. If it's digital only, I'm not interested.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Great, I was waiting for PS4 Pro v3.00.

I'll preorder when it's available.

 

[diggeloid]

Fingers crossed for a TLOU Pro™ remake

 

[Darth Meteos]

why bother, there's barely any games on it
i haven't been motivated whatsoever to buy a ps5 for this whole console cycle, it's insane

 

[PopcornSweetie]

Can we get at least some games for PS5?..

Will Astro's Playroom Remastered do?

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Fingers crossed for a TLOU Pro™ remake

They might update it to have "Playstation 5 Pro Enhanced" functions. Like what they did with a lot of games when the PS4 Pro came out.

 

[Marc_LFD]

why bother, there's barely any games on it
i haven't been motivated whatsoever to buy a ps5 for this whole console cycle, it's insane

Eh, for me it's because of Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi 4 and possibly a "next gen" update for Red Dead Redemption 2.

I know what I'm getting, it's a f*ckin' PS4 Pro v3.00. At this point I'd rather buy this than an overpriced used PS4 Pro 500 Million Edition.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Will Astro's Playroom Remastered do?

let me think about that...ok after careful consideration i have come to a conclusion

 

[Marc_LFD]

Will Astro's Playroom Remastered do?

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They might update it to have "Playstation 5 Pro Enhanced" functions. Like what they did with a lot of games when the PS4 Pro came out.

Where tf is my Knack 3? I've been waiting years for that masterpiece!

 

[CMDreamer]

"More power, same games..."

 

[realtimesave]

Not enough content. As I already own a PS5, a pro simply isn't worth doing.

 

[K3Nv2]

Lol did you make that graph based on the ideas in your own head?

Sure the switch has old hardware but it actually has games

PS6 will launch and PS5 will have had like 3 games worth buying

Exactly why I feel like buying the pro is a waste of money and people that do end up buying it just want to brag about how they have a PRO. Switch's main point was to optimize games which Nintendo has always been good at they don't need high specs to actually have IPs that people want to buy that are family friendly and not your average ported copy and paste port releases. Comparing the switch to a ps5 is like buying a Ferrari over a Toyota, Ferrari is cool, but people like Toyota for it's ease of use and affordability.

Can't wait for I have 5 ps5 pros follow up.

 

[x65943]

Exactly why I feel like buying the pro is a waste of money and people that do end up buying it just want to brag about how they have a PRO. Switch's main point was to optimize games which Nintendo has always been good at they don't need high specs to actually have IPs that people want to buy that are family friendly and not your average ported copy and paste port releases. Comparing the switch to a ps5 is like buying a Ferrari over a Toyota, Ferrari is cool, but people like Toyota for it's ease of use and affordability.

Can't wait for I have 5 ps5 pros follow up.

Some people have disposable income and not much to do with it

For those people upgrading for better specs makes sense

For someone who is thinking about their pocket book - why did you buy a PS5 in the first place fr fr no cap

 

[K3Nv2]

Some people have disposable income and not much to do with it

For those people upgrading for better specs makes sense

For someone who is thinking about their pocket book - why did you buy a PS5 in the first place fr fr no cap

People can have disposable income and still feel like what they bought is a waste of money, just because they can afford it doesn't mean they can't feel buyers remorse. You got people that are smart millionaires and dumb millionaires, the smart ones get richer regardless of public opinion on them.

 

[AdenTheThird]

Haha, my PC's still better
Great that there's a more powerful console in town, but probably still no exclusive games which bites pretty hard.

 

[Bladexdsl]

"More power, NO games..."

FIx'd

 

[Mayo1990]

where Switch pro?

 

[Xzi]

Comparing the switch to a ps5 is like buying a Ferrari over a Toyota, Ferrari is cool, but people like Toyota for it's ease of use and affordability.

In terms of price-to-performance ratio, $600/$700 for 33TFLOPS is a lot better than $300 for less than 1TFLOP. There's also a big difference between streamlined and under-featured, the difference between 3DS and Switch basically. I don't believe for a second that Playstation's UI is "too complicated" for most Nintendo fans to grasp.

All that said, I don't currently have any incentive to upgrade to a PS5 Pro, my PS5 only gets use as a "PS4 Pro+" as it is. Nor do I have any incentive to buy a Switch 2 if it's going to be just as easy to emulate as its predecessor. Unless/until somebody releases a console with plug-and-play hardware upgrades, PC will remain the best value by far.

 

[Delerious]

Just 33.5TFLOPS? That's pretty pathetic considering you can get that by having a mid-range PC... but the PS5 already released with pretty outdated hardware (watered-down Zen 2) when Zen 3 was available, the GPU wasn't even true RDNA2... so yeah, I'm not surprised.

A midrange PC these days costs $800 or more depending on what you're getting, and whether you even have the peripherals and a Windows license on-hand. Let's not also forget that a PC requires its own dedicated furniture (a desk and a chair) which takes up additional precious space that not everyone has, along with the fact that an SOC is generally more efficient than a dedicated CPU + GPU. You also have to consider the market they're trying to reach, which is still the broader public, even if it is a "Pro" model.

In other words, the wider gaming market doesn't operate on TFLOPS, and even then, a TFLOP only gives an approximation of where performance "should" be. Additionally, graphics are slowly hitting a point of diminishing return, and most people are fine with 60 fps. So why does a console that is still ultimately made for the wider gaming audience need to have RX 7800-class TFLOPS or better, especially when its price range is going to be lower?

 

[Xzi]

A midrange PC these days costs $800 or more depending on what you're getting, and whether you even have the peripherals and a Windows license on-hand. Let's not also forget that a PC requires its own dedicated furniture (a desk and a chair) which takes up additional precious space that not everyone has, along with the fact that an SOC is generally more efficient than a dedicated CPU + GPU. You also have to consider the market they're trying to reach, which is still the broader public, even if it is a "Pro" model.

In other words, the wider gaming market doesn't operate on TFLOPS, and even then, a TFLOP only gives an approximation of where performance "should" be. Additionally, graphics are slowly hitting a point of diminishing return, and most people are fine with 60 fps. So why does a console that is still ultimately made for the wider gaming audience need to have RX 7800-class TFLOPS or better, especially when its price range is going to be lower?

Starting from zero I'd say the PS5 Pro would be a really good value, but most people aren't starting from zero in console generation 9.5. Without an existing Playstation library there's very little incentive to drop the better part of a thousand dollars on a mid-gen refresh, and without an existing Steam library there's very little incentive to upgrade to an expensive desktop GPU.

For people truly starting from nothing and not sure of how much time they'll invest in gaming, the best option would probably be a used PS4 Pro or a Steam Deck.

 

[K3Nv2]

In terms of price-to-performance ratio, $600/$700 for 33TFLOPS is a lot better than $300 for less than 1TFLOP. There's also a big difference between streamlined and under-featured, the difference between 3DS and Switch basically. I don't believe for a second that Playstation's UI is "too complicated" for most Nintendo fans to grasp.

All that said, I don't currently have any incentive to upgrade to a PS5 Pro, my PS5 only gets use as a "PS4 Pro+" as it is. Nor do I have any incentive to buy a Switch 2 if it's going to be just as easy to emulate as its predecessor. Unless/until somebody releases a console with plug-and-play hardware upgrades, PC will remain the best value with the widest selection of games by far.

I enjoy PlayStation UI over Xbox, I enjoy the options that Xbox brings with Gamepass. Nintendos never been known to really boost about power they don't need to but care more about what their IPs looks like, they rinse and repeat as much as any but the title line is what keeps players hooked. I don't really feel like Mario has to be 4k60fps to enjoy it. Plus it's more family friendly in the eyes of parents since most parents purchase a switch for their kids because they know they can just buy a family friendly game over guts, guns, swords and blood being splattered all over in 4k. Nintendo is just that company that wants parents to feel like they can buy their 10 year old a decent console without worry it'll corrupt their mind by 15.

With Sony you got your titles like Spiderman huge fan base really. What Sony is just doing wrong this Gen is not keeping enough exclusive lines to keep people interested in buying titles. Screw how powerful it is give us titles. The old ps5 is going to be paperweight if everyone goes out and buys that and it works just as well. Sure you can sell it for like half off a ps5 pro but that's where I really can't see where it's worth spending the additional remainder on something you could use the money for a better device in the future if you can afford it or not.