Sony Interactive Leisure revealed the Playground 5 Professional console in a brand new trailer on Tuesday. The console will retail for US$699.99 and 119,980 yen (tax included). The PS5 Professional ships on November 7, with pre-orders beginning on September 26.


Options for the PS5 Professional embrace:

  • Playground Spectral super-resolution
  • 120 frames per second
  • Superior ray tracing
  • 2TB SSD storage
  • Upgraded GPU with “28% sooner reminiscence”
  • AI-powered upscaling to enhance picture readability

PS5 Professional lead designer Mark Cerny defined the brand new options in additional element in a separate livestream.


The console features a DualSense wi-fi controller and a replica of Astro’s Playroom. The console doesn’t embrace a vertical stand, which is offered individually. A disc-less model of the console is offered for buy, with the choice to buy the disc drive individually.

The announcement comes after the corporate lately raised the instructed retail value for the PS5 console and its peripherals. The change happened in Japan on September 2. The corporate cited critical exterior circumstances, together with current modifications within the international financial state of affairs, as causes for the worth modifications.

The PS5 console had already offered greater than 50 million models by December 2023.

From July 2021, Sony has offered over 10 million models of the PS5 worldwide since its launch, making the PS5 Sony‘s quickest promoting console. Sony PS5 offered over 20 million models worldwide as of June 2022. The PS5 surpassed 30 million models offered in January 2023 and 40 million models offered in July 2023.

The PS5 launched on November 12, 2020, in the US, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. The console launched in most different elements of the world on November 19, 2020. The PS5 retailed for US$499.99, with the PS5 Digital Version (which doesn’t embrace an optical drive) retailing for US$399.99. The PS5 launched a brand new, smaller mannequin to switch the outdated mannequin in a number of territories from November to early December 2023, with the brand new Digital Version growing in value to US$449.99.

The corporate has been launched Playground VR2, the brand new digital actuality (VR) system for PS5, in February 2023.

SIE has launched Challenge Leonardo – a brand new, extremely customizable accessibility controller package to assist gamers with disabilities play extra comfortably – for the Playground December 5 to six.

Sources: Playground‘S YouTube channel(hyperlink 2), Playground weblog