Why you shouldn’t expect a PlayStation 5 Pro anytime soon

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It seems pretty likely that Sony will eventually release a “PlayStation 5 Pro” somewhere down the line. The company has a history of making mid-generation console updates with things like the PS4 Slim and Pro, as well as the PS3 Slim, and there are current rumors suggesting that a new base model PS5 may be coming soon. All that is to say that there’s certainly a precedent for an upgrade coming sooner or later, but Sony has made it clear that if a Pro model is in the works, it’ll be leaning toward the “later” side of things.

Sony hasn’t officially said anything about a PS5 Pro, mind you. Its focus is directed solely toward supporting its current hardware, but that focus does inform some of the context surrounding any other potential hardware releases. Based on the company’s current behavior, it would appear that a major hardware upgrade like that is still years away.

In an interview with Axios, PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst recently said that the company is still planning on supporting the PS4 past 2022 on a “case-by-case basis.” Although he didn’t specify which games would also be launching on the PS4, several announced upcoming PlayStation Studios titles such as Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 come to mind when thinking about the potential of cross-generational releases.

This speaks to some frustrations that PS5 owners have had with Sony following the release of the console in 2020. A common critique is that Sony games are being held back from truly taking advantage of what makes the PS5 unique due to cross-generational support. It’s normal for cross-gen releases to take up a lot of space in the early years of a new console generation, but for all of Sony’s talk about how the PlayStation 5 is the company’s most