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Sony Reportedly Undertaking Internal Investigation Following Leaked PS5 Pro Specs

March 19, 2024

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Sony Reportedly Undertaking Internal Investigation Following Leaked PS5 Pro Specs

Sony is reportedly undertaking an internal investigation to determine how exactly the specs for Trinity, the codename by which the colloquially-named PS5 Pro is internally known, leaked so entirely over the weekend. The incident occurred during a third-party developer rollout, and while we may never learn the culprit’s identity, there will undoubtedly be additional security ramifications for other third-party devs moving forward.

Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has said that an internal investigation is already underway at the firm. Henderson’s sources confirmed the veracity of the leaked documents detailed by YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead over the weekend. It remains to be seen what the outcome of the incident will be, but the noted insider suggests Sony reducing the pool of third-party developers trusted with new tech is one potential possibility.

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What do you think is going on over at Sony? Shouldn’t there be some immediately identifiable way of tracing leaked documents as valuable as this? Wonder how banks manage it while premier tech companies continue to struggle in the comments section below.

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Zenos
2h ago

So PS5 Pro is real. Nice!

Some people said that leaks were fake and that ps5 pro wouldn’t happen. Glad they were wrong.

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Darknexus
2h ago

Death Penalty to leakers, It is just and necessary!

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Northern_munkey
2h ago

Who cares really? Somebody leaked the supposed specs either accidentally or deliberately and Sony are now in damage limitation mode. Fewer trusted devs having access to trinity,neo,morpheus or whatever it ends up being called is only going to have a detrimental effect on the gamers as it will take longer for other devs to get to grips and optimise games efficiently. Nothing is ever a secret anymore when everybody has access to the Internet so this kind of thing is only going to be more common place. Sony can’t even keep the ps+ monthly games secret anymore so this is no surprise.

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jt887
2h ago

It is very damaging as the leaked specs aren’t anything special. Keeping the same CPU when it’s often that which bottlenecks a game’s achievable framerate is not particularly aspiring.

£500+ for a slight resolution bump, marginally higher graphical presets and more raytracing? Hard sell.

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cragis0001
2h ago

Probably from one of the 900 devs that recently got payed off.

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NeonPizza
2h ago

@jt887
Wait, what? You’re saying that 90-120fps will be nearly just as scarce on PS5 Pro as it is with the original?

For ex, with PS5 Pro. I was hoping to maybe get Resident Evil 4 Remake running at native 4K + 90fps(With RayTracing & Hair strands settings turned off), instead of it’s current locked ’60fps’, at just under 4K(At 1900p, with lowered graphical fidelity at times) in performance mode on PS5.

Maybe I’m just expecting too much. Yet it’s a tough pill to swallow forking over $5000 for a PC(RTX4090).

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jt887
2h ago

@NeonPizza Aside from fringe cases being able to push towards 120fps, like well optimised cross-gen games, the leaked specs suggest higher resolution ceilings/sustainment with dynamic res; higher graphical presets and perhaps low raytracing being possible without tanking framerates below 30fps. GTA VI will look prettier, but it’s not going to be targeting 60fps. Rockstar rarely target 60fps, especially in their open world titles.

There’s talk of machine learned AI upscaling which could help performance, but the proof will be in the pudding there.

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ChrisDeku
2h ago

@jt887

Keeping the same CPU when it’s often that which bottlenecks a game’s achievable framerate is not particularly aspiring

This is total nonsense. I can’t think of a single game on PS5 that is CPU bound, and if it any exists it’s like 0.001% of games.

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djlard
1h ago

I hope there can be option to switch off Ray Tracing at all. That image us horrible and lighting is way more artificial.

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Ainu20
1h ago

@ChrisDeku Was going to say the same thing, in the vast majority of cases the GPU is the limiting factor. CPU might come into play in certain games’ performance modes, but the fact that quality modes running at 30fps or worse exist in those same games is evidence enough that they’re GPU bound.

It’s certainly a bold claim to say that they’re often CPU bound, and it needs data to support it.

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MaddieTian
1h ago

Until this comes directly from Sony it’s all unconfirmed rumours and speculation and should be treated as such.

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LordAinsley
1h ago

Personally, I’m happy with 60FPS, so getting 60 plus some extra goodies with this new console would be a plus for me.

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Shepherd_Tallon
46m ago

@MaddieTian Yeah, there’s a lot of Twitter speculation going around atm and nothing concrete.
The part about trusting fewer devs with new tech for example, is that speculation or was it suggested?

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MomsSpaghetti
44m ago

@jt887 you sure do like to make your baseless claims. How about providing evidence for once?

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Zeke68
21m ago

@Northern_munkey “Who cares really?”
I guess Sony cares as they spent millions of dollars on research and development. All that so a braindead person leaks it for 15 minutes of fame. And now M$, Apple and so on can copy that without doing all the estimates by themselves.
That’s a pretty big deal and it’s not good for anyone.
Edit: Imagine if that was your company, and you spent all that money just so some lowlife would steal the info and leak it right under your nose. Would you just say, “Who cares really?” if it was your millions used to gain that technology in the first place!? I don’t think so!!

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