For months, the gaming community’s various leakers have firmly maintained that Sony’s upgraded PS5 is real, will be called the ‘PS5 Pro’ and hit the shelves before the year is out. Despite Sony’s silence on the subject, Dealabs’ own Billbil-kun, a tier 2 leaker, reckons he has now seen an image of the packaging for the PS5 Pro and provided the world with a handy sketch showing off the console for the very first time.
Behold, the PlayStation 5 Pro. Kinda.
Going Pro
Dealabs mentions that while it does currently have an image of the PS5 Pro’s official packaging, it was unable to share it due to copyright reasons, which is how we ended up with a simple sketch in the first place.
Considering Dealabs or more specifically, Billbil-kun’s history in the leaking community – including successfully alerting the world of that Until Dawn remaster or Astro Bot reveal ahead of Sony itself – we’re inclined to believe the image is about as accurate as can be.
Then there’s the fact that the supposed PS5 Pro looks like an accurate representation of the effort Sony would implement in one of its highest-grossing products. In other words, “not much.” It’s stuck with the same general shape the console maker introduced on the PS5 Slim, though with two extra fins running down the middle, two USB-C ports and the return of the general-use USB-A port on the front.
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You’ve got to be able to distinguish them somehow, right?
Whether Sony will once again mimic the PS5 Slim by selling a separate disc drive on the side remains to be seen. Dealabs confirms that, like earlier iterations of the PS5, the side panels will be detachable to enable the selling of custom panels. As for the controller included with the console, we had hoped Sony might finally unveil the leaked V2 controller we saw a while back, though it appears as if it’s stuck with the standard DualSense 5.
As for a release window, the leaker briefly hints that the PS5 Pro will be announced to the public during the first half of September, though we’d advise taking that with a pinch of salt. it does, however, tie into what Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb had to say on the subject of Sony hosting a State of Play (“not a Showcase”) sometime near the back end of September.