Rumor: PlayStation 5 Pro Announcement Coming Q3 2024

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An insider claims that the PlayStation 5 Pro is getting announced this year, but much later in the year.

As reported by Dexerto, Tom Henderson shared this opinion in relation to rumors of a PlayStation 5 Pro announcement on Twitter:

“It seems like everyone is hyped that the PS5 Pro might be announced at CES. Personally, I’d be surprised if they were to announce a new console 9-10 months from release if that’s the timeline they are still going with. So I’m more inclined to believe a late Q3 announcement.”

CES, or the Consumer Electronics Show, was the inspiration behind the now defunct E3 expositions. Like E3, CES was originally for the industry only, but as technology became more closely associated with pop culture, it would become a public event. This year’s CES is coming this January 10 to 12, 2024, which is just a few days away.

While it would make sense for a big company like Sony to hold such an announcement on a huge show, there’s also a lot of reasons to believe they would not do so – in fact, there’s more reasons to believe the latter.

For one, Sony, which was the first of the three console companies to leave E3, does not need a third party show to announce their new hardware at all. They didn’t need such an occasion to announce the newer, slightly smaller model of the basic PlayStation 5. Making such arrangements could mean Sony having to pay the show organizers, but Sony has enough marketing infrastructure to spread the word on their products just fine.

The other thing is that it’s just far too close to the winter sales season. Sony made their sales in that period, and didn’t announce or release the PlayStation 5 Pro then. While our source notes that third parties already have PlayStation 5 Pro dev kits, that