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
WaxBull
That was such a boring show! Seriously, might aswell have been a powerpoint presentation.
The Slim looks “ok” but the Pro is ugly, reminding me of Promethean technology from Halo 4!
The specs were a let down for me and I was kind of hoping they would boost them to hold out better against what MS have revealed about the Scorpio already.
There was little energy and enthusiasm from both the presenters and the audience and the whole thing was a drag.
Didn’t stop me putting a pre-order down the moment it went live at shopto! Better is still better and tbh – despite my gripes – that price (£350) is a good price from Sony, was expecting a stupidly high price.
Basically getting it due to my urge to have the latest and greatest, but I wanted to be excited about it, sadly I am not.
double-o-dave
Missed all this last night.
All I really want to know is whether it’s going to be worth my while getting the Pro to use with my 1080TV which isn’t HDR. I guess it depends on how many debs use the better graphics option like Tombraider.
I don’t mind buying a 4K TV, but buying a 4K TV plus a new PS Pro is gonna start getting expensive – then there’s the PSVR to consider too.
WaxBull
A tough call and sounds like it is at the mercy of the devs. Personally, I would love to see the extra power go into 1080p 60fps minimum, pretty sure that was a requirement too. The 4K (not native) option seems like milking as much as possible from the modest upgrade. This was never going to do native 4K, the majority of console gamers are still using 1080p sets, so it is a bit baffling.
HDR is certainly more beneficial than resolution jumps, but the PS4 is getting that anyway. So unless you have a 4K HDR monitor/TV – there doesn’t seem to be any big reasons to get the PS4 Pro. Unless, like me, you don’t like something sitting there when you know something better can be bought (a disorder I hope to get cured one day)
double-o-dave
Same here, I bet I end up getting the Pro just because it’s better.
In fact, Sony should use this as an opportunity to do a PS4 Pro / Sony 4K TV Bundle.
The Lone Steven
The PS4 original better not fade away and classify itself as Obselete or I will be forced to call it Brother Nero and it will be BROKEN!
Joking aside, I feel that I am going to be rather conflicted when it’s PS4 buying time. Do I get the cheaper, original PS4? Do I get the slim one for space reasons? Or do I get the one that is ripped and looks like it is on steroids but hasn’t been tested for it but we all know it’s using steroids?
GoosePies
Just preordered mine now, show was a little dull last night but brief at least.
Only little things that kinda bug me ate the 1tb hdd, i just swapped out mine for a 2 and now will have to swap out the new one aswell. Also would have liked a pro controller of some sort. But other than that I’m happy, will get a new bravia in new year to match :)
Lyts1985
Bit disappointed it doesn’t come equipped with a 4K Blu-ray drive. Like WaxBull above, I’ll no doubt end up getting one just because I know there’s a better PS4 available than my current one but I was really hoping for an affordable 4K Blu-ray player to get the most out of my 4K HDR TV…
Also, it doesn’t play games in native 4K so is there any point upgrading when my AV receiver upscales a 1080p signal to 4K anyway…?
Finally… It’s bloody ugly!
Confused :-S
beeje13
The PS4P doesn’t just upscale from 1080p. I think most of the games go halfway between 1080 and 4k, then use a revolutionary method called checkerboarding to get to 4k.
Did you know Rainbow 6 siege has native res less than 720p on PS4/X1? There’s some very clever work being done there.
Lyts1985
Fair enough – that’s what I wasn’t sure about, whether it was a simple upscaled image or if there was more to it than that… And to be fair Sony’s reveal didn’t really explain it all too clearly :-(
Cheers!