When the fact of getting a ninth generation console is still an arduous task due to scarcity. Rumors about a PS5 Pro or an upcoming Xbox Series of greater capacity are starting to pick up steam. The fact is that a slide of a presentation has gone viral on the network. Where a generation 9.5 console s is mentioned. Will we see improved iterations of the current generation as has been said during the last hours? Well, let’s try to answer it.
If we discard the technological advances from one generation of consoles to another, we will see how the biggest jump there was was from the fourth to the fifth generation, which is when we began to see the first games with fully 3D environments. However, for some time now, the intergenerational gap has been smaller than before. If we add to this that the platforms are no longer based on a complete hardware configuration, but rather on a proprietary operating system as the basis for making the games. So the conclusion is clear, the generations have been completely blurred. For this we only have to see the current catalog of Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 and see how the generation gap is not really seen anywhere.
Will we see a 9.5 generation of consoles in the form of PS5 Pro and new Xbox?
Well, at least this is what the people of TCL Press have dropped at a conference held in Poland. Where they have dropped that we will see a 9.5 generation of consoles for 2023/2024 made up of new X box Series S / X and a PS5 Pro and that they would carry a graphics card at the level of the RX 7700 XT .
However, we must clarify that this is not authoritative since the source is not the manufacturers themselves. In any case, we must clarify that we do not believe that SONY will at least launch a PS5 Pro during this generation. Another thing would be a Slim version of the PS5 with enhanced visual capabilities. Isn’t it the same? Well, no, and this needs to be explained. The Japanese multinational has already launched a console with two iterations in the form of PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro, of the latter they sold 20% of the PlayStation market volume. The decision of the Jim Ryan board for PS5? Launch a unique configuration in terms of hardware.
On the other hand, we may be wrong, but since the shortage has not caused the product curve of both consoles to exceed the introduction phase. We are very sure that launching generation 9.5 consoles is the least counterproductive. What do we think? Well, the fact that said hardware is under development. Although this will not come out so soon and it will not be called PS5 Pro, but PlayStation 6. Reason? Marketing and for what we have told you in the introduction. As for Xbox we think the same. The Series S is eating its older sister in sales and therefore they are experiencing the problems of the double model.
