After months of speculation and leaks Sony have taken to the stage in New York and officially revealed the PlayStation 4 Pro. The name is to signify it is the part of the current PlayStation family but for the discerning, high end consumer. The PS4 Pro will launch this November and will cost $399, €399, £349.
Sony were very vague on the hardware specifications, but did say that the GPU power has been doubled, the clock rate for the processor has been increased, and there will be a 1TB hard drive. PlayStation VR games will also get a boost, for example Farpoint has a doubled polygon count on PS4 Pro. However, while the console will focus on 4K content, both in terms of games and media, it does not include an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive.
From photos and official images, we can say that it features two USB ports on the front and one on the rear, alongside HDMI, optical audio, ethernet and an AUX port for the PS Camera.
“PS4 Pro is not meant to blur the lines between console generations,” said Mark Cerny, who continued to talk for a long time about games running in 4K and HDR, the former of which is due to “specialised rendering techniques optimised to the PS4 Pro hardware.” A number of games will be “forward compatible”, meaning the original PS4 games will be patched to include a Pro mode with enhanced graphics and lighting. FIFA 17, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Mass Effect Andromeda, Black Ops 3, and Battlefield 1 will all support PS4 Pro.
[UPDATE] We now know the official specs for PlayStation 4 Pro, which are as follows:
Product name: PlayStation®4 Pro
Color: Jet Black
Product code: CUH-7000 series
MSRP: JP44,980yen, US$399, EU€399, £349.
Main processor: Single-chip custom processor
CPU: x86-64 AMD “Jaguar”, 8 cores
GPU: 4.20 TFLOPS, AMD Radeon™ based graphics engin
Memory: GDDR5 8GB
Storage size: 1TB
External dimensions: Approx. 295×55×327mm (w × h × l)
Mass: Approx. 3.3 kg
BD/ DVD drive (read only):
BD × 6 CAV
DVD × 8 CAV
Input/ Output:
Super-Speed USB (USB 3.1 Gen.1) port × 3
AUX port × 1
Networking:
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)×1
IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Bluetooth® 4.0 (LE)
Power:
AC 100V, 50/60Hz
Consumption: Max. 310W
Operating temperature: 5ºC – 35ºC
AV output:
HDMI™ out port (supports 4K/HDR)
DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) port
blarty
For someone, like myself, who has a 4k HDR TV, then the PS4 Pro is a good thing – no point really for 1080p TV owners, unless the extra GPU power is put to locked 60fps with extra texture resolution.
Hopefully the PS4 slim is quieter, so is a better move than the PS3 Fat to slim which lost lots of features
fillip2k
not* sorry long day at work hence the lack of message proofreading!
ron_mcphatty
They look like a Liquorice Allsort and a Sky Q box made a couple of babies and then went and told the world which was their favourite. I think the price of the Pro is alright, is the Slim the same as the PS3 Slim? I could’ve sworn I paid £200 very soon after release, but £250 is good, I’m sure retailers will hack that down for Christmas. For me the VR Demo Disc was the highlight of today’s news though and as nice as all these new consoles are my telly is six years old and doesn’t do HDR, so I’m very happy for now with my glossy becornered parallelogram.
Voolar
A 4K Blu-ray player would’ve swung it for me… Now, unless there’s a major advantage for the PSVR – I’m not gonna bother…
JR.
I thought the Pro would be more aesthetically pleasing.
Do we know if the Pro has touch sensitive buttons? The slim version looked like it had press buttons in the photos I saw the other day.
I hoped the Pro model would be a high end product with no expense spared.
Kennykazey
At least it has an optical out.
camdaz
Just been looking at the spec comparison on IGN of the two new PS4s and found:
Power Consumption PS4 Pro 310w (max), PS4 (new) 165w (max). That’s a heck of a jump!
Also says both have optical out????
CR8ZYH0RSE
This is typical Sony,going their own way rather than listen to feedback.The rubber on the twin sticks should of been one of the first things to be changed.Same thing happened with the Vita,6 different models before they came up with the twin joystick even though it was asked of them for years.The aesthetics of the PS4 pro look displeasing,more like a slimline toaster.It was about time they showed some footage/gameplay from Mass Effect:Andromeda,they tweeted so much abou how it was coming along rather than show footage people were getting pissed off.
coxy1701
It was a bad choice on Sony’s part not to include a uhd Blu-ray player. Being aimed at 4k reso you would of thought it would be in there. Maybe it’s something that is included but can be added as a patch like the PS4/3d Blu-ray playback. Who knows. Plus does the v2 camera have the same connection as the original?
nightdc
No UHD 4K Blu-ray player means no point for me a real deal breaker forget the fancy bit they have done a nintendo and made it a games only console.
I just cannot understatnd why they left this out when xbox one s clearly has it,talk about shoot themselves in the foot.
A real poor show and no real reason to upgrade.