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cailianshe news, september 10 (editor: shi zhengcheng)just as the outside world was paying close attention to the decisive battle of "apple vs. huawei", another major consumer electronics manufacturer, sony, announced: i will also hold a press conference on september 10!

late monday night beijing time, sony interactive entertainment released a statement on its official website saying that it willan online technical demonstration event will be held at 11:00 est on september 10 (23:00 on tuesday evening beijing time), with mark cerny, chief architect of the ps5 console, as the speaker., with a total length of approximately 9 minutes, the presentation will focus on“ps5 and innovation in gaming technology”。

(source: playstation official website)

although sony's new products are not "tri-fold phones" or "ai phones", their targets are the same - consumers' increasingly thin wallets.

due to mark cerny's appearance and the previous news about the launch schedule of new products, the market almost unanimously believes that -tuesday should be the release date of the ps5 pro game console。

it is worth mentioning that when sony published an article last week to celebrate the 30th anniversary of playstation, sharp-eyed netizens pointed out that there was a new product hidden in it——the new ps5 has three black stripes on the waist. this design is also highly similar to the ps5 pro retail packaging leaked by the media.

(source: sony, the verge)

the price may increase with stronger graphics performance

according to previous reports, as an important upgrade spanning two generations, the main selling point of ps5 pro is the significant improvement in graphics performance to adapt to new games such as "black myth: wukong" that have increasingly higher requirements for rendering performance.

the gpu rendering speed on the ps5 pro will be "about 45%" faster than the standard version of the ps5, roughly comparable to the amd radeon rx 7700 xt graphics card. the gpu floating point computing power will be increased by 227%, and the memory speed will also be increased from 448gb/s to 576gb/s.

at the same time, game developers will also gain greater access to system memory, from 12.5 gb to 13.7 gb, which will be conducive to supporting sony's own spectral super resolution (pssr), which is similar to nvidia's dlss or amd's fsr. according to reports, it only takes about 2 milliseconds of latency to upgrade a 1080p image to 4k, and the company is also working on supporting up to 8k resolution.

compared to the significant upgrade of the gpu, the performance of the cpu will be very close to the standard version, with only an overclocking mode added to increase the performance by 10% (from 3.5ghz to 3.85ghz) - in this mode, the gpu power supply will be slightly reduced, resulting in a performance drop of about 1%.

compared with the performance improvement, the biggest suspense at the moment is the price.

sony ps5 was first announced in april 2019 and officially went on sale at the end of the year. the version equipped with a blu-ray drive starts at 49,980 yen/3,899 yuan/499 us dollars. almost 4 years after its launch,sony suddenly announced at the end of august that it would increase the price of ps5 due to factors such as inflation and the depreciation of the yen.the price in the japanese market increased to 60,478 yen, and the price in the chinese market increased to 4,299 yuan.

however, based on the obvious improvement in graphics rendering capabilities, consumer electronics analysts generally believe that, unlike the previous generation ps4 pro, this time the ps5 pro is unlikely to continue the strategy of keeping the same price as the ps5 when it was launched, and the pricing may see a significant increase.

serkan toto, founder of kantan games, a japanese gaming industry analysis agency, expects thatps5 pro is expected to be priced between $600 and $650earlier, on the anonymous chat platform 4chan, a whistleblower also posted a sony promotional poster showingthe ps5 pro with optical drive is priced at $699.99, and the digital version is priced at $599.99。