The PlayStation 5 Professional appears to be inching nearer to an official announcement. Following leaks that stated the PS5 Professional would make its debut in September, Sony has now confirmed a PlayStation 5 “Technical Presentation” for September 10. The presentation will start at 8:00am PT (or 8.30pm IST) on Tuesday and can give attention to “on PS5 and improvements in gaming know-how.” Whereas Sony has not explicitly confirmed if the present would function the PlayStation 5 Professional, the corporate will possible lastly reveal the existence of the upcoming console, that has been an open secret within the trade for a while now.
PlayStation Technical Presentation
Crucially, the technical presentation shall be hosted by Mark Cerny, lead architect of the PS5 (and the PS4, for that matter). It was Cerny who revealed and detailed the technical capabilities and design choices of the PS5 forward of the console’s launch over 4 years in the past.
Sony has confirmed that the stream shall be 9 minutes lengthy and broadcast in English on the PlayStation YouTube channel. The PlayStation mum or dad has offered no different particulars on the technical presentation. You possibly can watch the presentation when it goes dwell beneath:
It is also price noting that Sony appeared to have teased the PS5 Professional forward of asserting the presentation. In its submit celebrating 30th anniversary of PlayStation, the corporate posted a picture that featured a spot-it-if-you-can forged of PlayStation merchandise within the background. Amid the acquainted contours of Sony consoles and PlayStation equipment over time, you may spot a sure PS5-like design that is not in official existence but — a PS5 considered from the facet, with three stripes working throughout the facet plate.
The design matches up with a leaked design of the PS5 Professional. Final month, a dependable leaker claimed the PS5 Professional could be formally revealed within the first half of September. Along with the launch timeline, the leaker posted a sketch of the purported PS5 Professional, which featured an analogous design to the PS5, however with three stripes on the facet plate.
The PS5 Professional has been an open secret within the video games trade for some time now, with rumours and reviews revealing the anticipated {hardware} upgrades the console would possibly include. With declining gross sales of the PS5, Sony is anticipated to launch the ‘Professional’ model of its current-gen console forward of the Vacation 2024 season. In its latest earnings report for March-June quarter, Sony stated it offered 2.four million PS5 items, nicely beneath the three million-mark that analysts had anticipated.
