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Quailman1342 on 24 December 2022
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Pemalite said:
SvennoJ said:

The only reason I can see for Pro consoles this gen is a ray trace model to be able to hit 60 fps in ray trace mode.

Also doesn't help that AMD's ray tracing capabilities tends to be terrible... Which sadly the Xbox Series S/X and Playstation 5 ended up being lumped with.
Even the new Radeon 7000 series leaves a lot to be desired on the Ray Tracing front, it's better... No doubt, but far from where it should be.

I don't expect the Xbox Series X One X/Playstation 5 Pro consoles to get 60fps Ray Tracing, they just won't have the technology available to them at an affordable price point just yet.

A pro version for the xbox serires/ps5 just doesn't seem to be in the cards. This console generation microsoft or sony didn't skimp out on the hardware. At the time of release they shipped the "4k" twins with a 3rd gen ryzen cpu which is similar to a ryzen 7 4700g minus the integrated graphics and an RDNA 2 based gpu that lands around the rx 6700 10 gb desktop gpu in performance. 

We also have to think of the constraint place on the consoles...the ps5 and series x are both very hot consoles so we saw the sizes increase in other areas to make up for the heat that's generated from the components in use. I personally just don't think it's in the cards for Sony or Microsoft to release a pro version that is only 10 to 15% more powerful than then the current gen consoles. They're already both working on razor thin margins when it comes to wattage and heat dissipation. It isn't as easy to say they can upgrade the gpu to one that is similar to the 6800xt or 6900xt...or it's not possible to jump to RDNA 3 as RDNA 3 at its core is a completely different architecture in comparison to RDNA 2. I personally think we will see the ps5 slim and series x slim as the console revisions as there isn't enough of a performance jump to justify a pro variant.