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The PS5 Pro is official. After months of leaks, Sony just announced a more powerful PS5 console during a special technical presentation. Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5 console, revealed the latest addition to the PlayStation console lineup.
We’ve known for months the PS5 Pro is real and that developers have been getting their games ready for this new console. Codenamed Trinity, the PlayStation 5 Pro model will include a more powerful GPU and a slightly faster CPU mode, acc
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