Sony Reportedly Undertaking Internal Investigation Following Leaked PS5 Pro Specs

Who cares really? Somebody leaked the supposed specs either accidentally or deliberately and Sony are now in damage limitation mode. Fewer trusted devs having access to trinity,neo,morpheus or whatever it ends up being called is only going to have a detrimental effect on the gamers as it will take longer for other devs to get to grips and optimise games efficiently. Nothing is ever a secret anymore when everybody has access to the Internet so this kind of thing is only going to be more common place. Sony can't even keep the ps+ monthly games secret anymore so this is no surprise.

Probably from one of the 900 devs that recently got payed off.

@jt887

Keeping the same CPU when it's often that which bottlenecks a game's achievable framerate is not particularly aspiring

This is total nonsense. I can’t think of a single game on PS5 that is CPU bound, and if it any exists it’s like 0.001% of games.

I hope there can be option to switch off Ray Tracing at all. That image us horrible and lighting is way more artificial.

@ChrisDeku Was going to say the same thing, in the vast majority of cases the GPU is the limiting factor. CPU might come into play in certain games' performance modes, but the fact that quality modes running at 30fps or worse exist in those same games is evidence enough that they're GPU bound.

It's certainly a bold claim to say that they're often CPU bound, and it needs data to support it.

Until this comes directly from Sony it’s all unconfirmed rumours and speculation and should be treated as such.

Personally, I'm happy with 60FPS, so getting 60 plus some extra goodies with this new console would be a plus for me.

@Northern_munkey "Who cares really?"
I guess Sony cares as they spent millions of dollars on research and development. All that so a braindead person leaks it for 15 minutes of fame. And now M$, Apple and so on can copy that without doing all the estimates by themselves.
That's a pretty big deal and it's not good for anyone.
Edit: Imagine if that was your company, and you spent all that money just so some lowlife would steal the info and leak it right under your nose. Would you just say, "Who cares really?" if it was your millions used to gain that technology in the first place!? I don't think so!!

@MaddieTian This does sound like a rumour to add clout to the previous rumour. We will then get a rumour about the repercussions of this rumour getting out.

@jt887 ha ha, nice try buddy!! 👍

@djlard good raytracing is far superior to any other lighting though. I mean some games have really good baked GI, Mario Kart comes to mind, but it's not interactive.

I rather see a decent bump in Raytracing performance and quality over an option to turn it off.

Spec Oops - The Leak

Sony might as well come out and officially confirm the existence of the console and start building hype about what it can do instead of letting every Twitter (X) ‘expert’ yack on about the specs that they have read themselves and as usual add to it with crazy number! I did read somewhere that this console was going to be pushed as the best place to play the next GTA game, so it will undoubtedly sell well when that game launches, as long as people can afford it. I imagine there will be some sort of package with the PS5 Pro and GTA 6 bundled together.

@Zeke68 I'm not sure why my opinion matters so much to you. I don't think anybody really gives 2 squirts of vimto that the specs were leaked (well not outside of Sony anyway.) Are you really going to try and pretend you do?

@Northern_munkey
I think stealing info/tech is wrong whoever does it to whomever!
So, yes, in that sense I do care.
If you ever made something yourself you would understand what that means to the "original maker".

Another waste of time, more specs no games.

Insofar as the PS5 Pro rumoured specs go, I think some need to take a deep breath. Keeping in mind the rumours of Sony already choosing to partner with AMD on next gen,they would be less likely to make a CPU jump both for pre-existing compatibility of standard PS5 & PS4 titles.

We don't know if & when what Zen CPU (or more likely APU incorporating the GPU),is chosen for "PS6" if backwards compatibility stretching back to PS4 in the engineering choice will be included. From a gaming library viewpoint,I hope so! But nothing is certain.
From past interviews with Mark Cerny he's touched on Sony usually opting for baked in hardware backwards compatibility,but how it then dictates careful CPU choices & customisation.

Insofar as the leaks go,it does reinforce Sony's stance during the Activision Blizzard trial of where traditionally Activision would've been considered a launch partner,but would they be so quick with a PS6 Devkit now when leaks could happen.

skip the PS5 Pro and improve in other areas like a better battery in the dualsense controller and some more 1st party games.

A rumor of a rumor

Well... that's confirmation if i ever saw it.
Still worried it will be awfully expensive.

An even more powerful console to play no PS5 games on.

They might as well resurrect the PS4 Pro with an internal SSD and have done.

DF claiming it probably won't run games targeting 30fps at 60fps. Not sure it seems like such a good idea.

@kyleforrester87 i'm not saying it does not matter. I'm simply stating that nobody cares either way about the leak. The ps5 is selling really well and it's easy to get hold of now so chances are if people want one they have bought one. A ps5 Pro was always bound to happen at some point and people will obviously purchase one or upgrade to one. If the specs are real I'll consider upgrading depending on the price but to be honest I still don't think we have seen exactly what the ps5 can really produce yet so whilst I'm eager to see how these rumors turn out I still don't really care about it being leaked.

Hold it for ps6 , graphics is already great but there are no games to play..

The GPU will still be RDNA2 and lost likely a 6800XT slightly more powerful maybe more VRAM and faster storage and a slightly boosted CPU. Because power draw will be important

Don't forget Sony said the PS5 is in it latter stages of its life cycle.......... So IF there not going to make more PS5 exclusive bangers that take full advantage of it's specs........... Why buy one?

@Northern_munkey Because people like you with opinions like yours do things like this, which often end up ruining things and negatively affecting everyone else.

@gonzilla really?

It's funny to think the PS5 Pro will launch to the same problem as the niche PSVR2 - not a big enough library, baby. Can you blame people for sticking with their cheaper PS4s, really, with an overly long cross gen period and few games justifying the upgrade.

This is the nothing generation of consoles, eh. The hardware is amazing on Series X and PS5 yet both have few things unique to them that are worth playing. In the meantime Nintendo clean up making fun games on an underpowered 2017 machine with hardware from 2015, less powerful than most people's smartphones.