Here’s The Exact Time Sony’s Big PS5 Pro Reveal Takes Place And How To Watch

We’ve had countless leaks and rumors, a bunch of conceptual designs like the image above, and plenty of hype leading up to Sony’s big PS5 Pro reveal. Now, at last, we have a time and date for the upcoming PS5 Pro Technical Presentation with Mark Cerny.

The mid-gen PlayStation 5 is coming as part of a broader celebration of the 30th anniversary of PlayStation, which launched in Japan in 1994 and in North America in 1995. Of course, Sony’s system didn’t really take off until the launch of the PS2 at the turn of the millenium, which would eventually sell over 160 million units.

The PS5 is not selling quite so spectacularly, though it’s clearly a hit with gamers. Partly, this is because there are not nearly as many must-play exclusives out this generation so far as there were in the PS2 era. Of course, Sony often saves the best for last, and I would not be surprised to see many of this PlayStation era’s best games release in the second half of its lifespan. Whether a PS5 Pro will be a big enough leap forward in tech to justify the purchase remains to be seen.

We’ll find out more this Tuesday, September 10th at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST. The presentation will be roughly 9 minutes long. You’ll be able to watch the full presentation at PlayStation’s YouTube channel.

Cerny’s past Technical Presentations have been incredibly informative, technical and, well, a little dry. This is not a PlayStation Showcase filled with a bunch of game reveals. It’s more like a lecture on a topic near and dear to our hearts. We’re sure to learn a great deal about the ways Sony has improved this iteration of the PS5 over the last. Storage, speed and aesthetics are the likeliest changes. Improved load-times, better upscaling, bigger drives, prettier shell.

I’m still a bit mixed on mid-gen overhauls out of principle, as well as “lite” versions of systems (such as the Xbox Series S) since the entire point of a console is that they’re all supposed to be the same and play the same games without a bunch of different hardware configurations or quality discrepancies.

It occurs to me that the hardware manufacturer has the most to gain by extending the life-cycle of a console generation in this manner, while encouraging developers to create games that will play best on the newer sku, and gamers to drop a few hundred more dollars on a system they’ve likely already purchased.

Still, I’m nothing if not curious. Microsoft’s new Xbox models—which basically offered increased storage options—were not particularly compelling. Hopefully Sony gives us something a bit more tantalizing.