Leaked previews have revealed that the upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro possesses an important upgrade that Sony hasn't mentioned anywhere in the console's marketing. While the PS5 Pro's public launch is slated for next week, certain retailers have prematurely shipped it to a handful of customers, through whom it's been discovered that the console's CMOS battery sees a nifty improvement over the base PS5.
The PS5 Pro already boasts an extensive list of upgrades compared to the vanilla PS5, with the headliners being a 67% larger GPU, 10% higher CPU clock speeds, double to triple the ray tracing performance, and a brand-new AI-driven image upscaler dubbed PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution. The $700 price tag has been quite contentious, though, and so has the recently-discovered incompatibility of existing PS5 Slim console covers with the PS5 Pro. Still, there's a laundry list of enhancements on the PS5 Pro, and a new one has been unearthed.
PlayStation CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino reveal Sony developed the PlayStation 5 Pro console for a significant amount of time.
Back in 2021, there was a lot of talk surrounding the PS5's CMOS battery, a crucial hardware...