Sony PS5 Pro revealed in unboxing and teardown, and updates for over 50 games confirmed
The Sony PlayStation 5 Pro will start shipping on Thursday, November 7. Those who want to know more before the launch can now view the contents of the box in an unboxing video from Digital Foundry (embedded below). Sony appears to be once again using packaging similar to the PlayStation 5 Slim. In addition to the console, Sony also includes a USB-C to USB-C cable, an HDMI 2.1 cable and a DualSense controller, but the vertical stand must be purchased separately if required.
After just under ten minutes, the video shows a size comparison between the new PS5 Pro, the PS5 Slim and the regular PlayStation 5, followed by a comparison with the launch version of the PlayStation 2. The video also shows the specifications of the PlayStation 5 Pro, which are shown in the console's user manual. According to this, the PS5 Pro offers a nominal GPU performance of 16.7 TFLOPs, 16 GB of GDDR5 and an additional 2 GB DDR5 RAM as well as support for Wi-Fi 7. The maximum power consumption is 390 watts.
Meanwhile, Portuguese YouTube channel TAG has already disassembled the PlayStation 5 Pro into its individual parts. Unsurprisingly, the design of the PS5 Pro is practically identical to that of the PS5 Slim apart from a slightly larger cooling system. Sony itself has finally published a list of games on the PlayStation Blog that will receive an update at launch in order to benefit from the hardware of the more powerful console, be it in the form of higher frame rates, resolutions or more complex ray tracing:
- Alan Wake 2
- Albatroz
- Apex Legends
- Arma Reforger
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- EA Sports College Football 25
- Dead Island 2
- Demon’s Souls
- Diablo IV
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Dying Light 2 Reloaded Edition
- EA Sports FC 25
- Enlisted
- F1 24
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Fortnite
- God of War Ragnarök
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
- Kayak VR: Mirage
- Lies of P
- Lords of the Fallen (2023)
- Madden NFL 25
- Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Naraka: Bladepoint
- NBA2K 25
- No Man’s Sky
- Palworld
- Paladin’s Passage
- Planet Coaster 2
- Professional Spirits Baseball 2024-2025
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Resident Evil 4
- Resident Evil Village
- Rise of the Ronin
- Rogue Flight
- Star Wars: Jedi Survivor
- Star Wars: Outlaws
- Stellar Blade
- Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown
- The Callisto Protocol
- The Crew Motorfest
- The Finals
- The First Descendant
- The Last of Us Part I
- The Last of Us Part II Remastered
- Until Dawn
- War Thunder
- Warframe
- World of Warships: Legends
Many more games optimized for the PS5 Pro are expected to follow in the future. Games that do not receive an update will still benefit from the faster hardware, especially through more stable frame rates and, in the case of dynamic resolution, also from a higher average number of pixels and thus a higher level of detail.
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