Sony has been working on the PS5 Pro for some time now, the console that will hit the market according to the latest information this christmasand it will not have a direct rival from Microsoft, since in theory it is an intergenerational renewal of the Xbox series would be cancelled. This cancellation would happen due to the low sales that the Xbox Series X and Series S register in general.

The most recent and reliable sales data we have reveals that the Xbox Series X and Series S sold together 27 million piecesa figure that contrasts with 52.6 million PS5 sold. The difference is double the number of units sold, but it must be put into context that in the case of Xbox we are adding sales of two different models, which means that the difference would be even greater if we took the Xbox Series S out of the equation.

We have no information on the possible specifications that the Xbox Series Elite was supposed to have, but it is said that its development It was canceled when it was at a fairly advanced stage. If this is confirmed, Sony will have a free hand with the PS5 Pro this Christmas, it would be even more clear that Microsoft has thrown in the towel in the war of the current generation of consoles and that it already has its sights set on the next generations.

Back to the PS5 Pro, there is no fundamental change in the list of possible specs we’ve seen. This console will mean a renewal similar to the one we saw with the arrival of the PS4 Pro, that is, the most relevant change will be in the GPU, which will be much more powerful than the PS5, and in the rest of the components the adjustments will be minor.

On the other hand, one of the most interesting pieces of news that has emerged as a result of the latest rumors that talked about intelligent upscaling on the PS5 Pro is being questioned, and that is that the latest information says that They cannot confirm that this console will have NPU dedicated to AI acceleration, and this would theoretically be key for a Sony console to offer this type of technology.

We’ll see what happens from all of this, but it’s important to keep this in mind Sony could take advantage of the AI ​​core that will be in the new PS5 Pro GPU. Said graphics core will be based on the RDNA 3 architecture, which, as I told you back then, introduced dedicated AI cores. These haven’t been used on PC yet, but they are there and could be used to accelerate smart scaling technology. If 56 Compute Units per PS5 Pro GPU is confirmed, This would have 112 cores to speed up the AI.