Bad news: Your PS5 Slim covers won’t work on the PS5 Pro

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People person a batch of questions astir nan PlayStation 5 Pro up of its motorboat connected November 7. Is it worthy $700? How overmuch amended will your games look and play? Will your PS5 Slim faceplate match? You’ll person to wait for reviews to reply a batch of those questions, but we now person an reply to that past one. Digital Trends tin corroborate that PS5 Slim covers won’t activity pinch nan PS5 Pro.

“PS5 console covers are not compatible pinch PS5 Pro. However, players will beryllium capable to switch retired different console covers for PS5 Pro erstwhile they go disposable successful nan future,” a PlayStation spokesperson told IGN Thursday.

Speculation began Wednesday aft a Reddit personification posted that their cobalt bluish plates for their PS5 Slim (the existent modular PS5 you tin buy) weren’t compatible pinch nan PS5 Pro. While nan 2 consoles stock a batch of nan aforesaid beingness dimensions, nan personification said only nan bottommost sheet seems to threat connected properly. The apical sheet doesn’t match. “The teeth that link to nan strategy are [in] somewhat different places. So you can’t link nan apical part,” they wrote.

PlayStation 5 Pro does not activity pinch nan slim plates.
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It was antecedently unclear if nan PS5 Slim’s swappable covers, which tin alteration up nan look of nan console, would fresh nan PS5 Pro. In an announcement connected nan PlayStation Blog, Sony Interactive Entertainment co-CEO Hideaki Nishino only noted that players tin adhd a disc thrust aliases “swap retired console covers erstwhile they go available.” This seemed to connote that PS5 Pro-specific covers would beryllium introduced, though that doesn’t corroborate if you could only bargain PS5 Pro branded covers.

The PS5 Pro will group you backmost a whopping $700, and it doesn’t travel pinch a disc drive. That’ll costs an other $80 done PlayStation Direct. At nan clip of this writing, PS5 Slim covers costs $60 each for modular colors, aliases $65 for nan 3 chroma variants. We don’t cognize thing yet astir what nan PS5 Pro faceplates will cost, but you tin stake they’ll beryllium expensive.