WHILE it’s still too early to expect Pro and Slim editions of the PS5 any time soon, these concept designs give us an idea of what they might look like.
Jermain Smit, aka Concept Creator, teamed up LetsGoDigital to mock up some slick renders of that a PS5 Pro and PS5 Slim might look like.
Smit’s streamlined PS5 Pro render sit somewhere between an older concept he cooked up last year for the PS5 Slim, and the actual PS5 console itself.
He also strayed from Sony’s white and black colourway with an all-black variant that still sports the blue light trim.
The double LED strip light is replaced with just a single, but is still manages to look stylishly subtle.
Smit seems to take inspiration from the DualSense’s barely discernible pattern of PlayStation symbols, which appear on the faceplates in the video.
The consoles are accompanied by a revised DualSense design which carries over the textured finish from the back on the official version to the front section.
Sony has released slimmed down versions of its consoles since the first PS One.
Although the ‘Slim’ moniker only came into play with the PS2 Slim.
Last gen’s PS4 was the first to get a Pro variant that offered an incremental upgrade partway through the console’s lifecycle.
Historically, the Slim versions have launched around three years after the initial console release.
The PS4 Pro debuted alongside the PS4 Slim in 2016, three years after the PS4’s launch.
Sony will almost certainly follow suit with a PS5 Slim given how outrageously huge the PS5 is.
On paper, the hardware isn’t as powerful as the Xbox Series X, so there’s wiggle room to roll out a beefier PS5 Pro in a couple years too.
Whether they’ll look like Smit’s concepts or sport an even more radical design that the PS5 we don’t know.
But we’d be happy if they looked half as stunning as these renders.
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