PS5 Professional preorder information: Worth, launch date, availability

UPDATE: Oct. 11, 2024, 10:05 a.m. EDT This story has been up to date with present availability.

The PlayStation 5 Professional is up for grabs once more. Hope you began saving for it yesterday.

Priced at $699.99, preorders for Sony’s upcoming mid-gen console are actually open at main retailers as of 10 a.m. ET on Thursday, Oct. 10. That features Amazon, Finest Purchase, GameStop, Goal, and Walmart.

This marks the PS5 Professional’s second wave of preorders, arriving two weeks after its preliminary launch within the PlayStation Direct storefront; on the time of writing, it is again in inventory there after promoting out at first. (A PlayStation Community account is required.) All retailers are limiting consumers to 1 console per order besides Goal, which permits two per order.

The PS5 Professional will start delivery in 4 weeks on Thursday, Nov. 7.

Sony beforehand launched two limited-edition console bundles commemorating the PlayStation’s thirtieth anniversary alongside the PS5 Professional, and each of them are lengthy gone.

One was a $999.99 PS5 Professional thirtieth Anniversary Restricted Version Bundle that includes a PS5 Professional decked out within the ’90s grey aesthetic of the very first PlayStation. It got here with matching DualSense and DualSense Edge controllers, a DualSense charging station, a canopy for a disc drive (offered individually), a vertical stand, and a handful of collectibles. Restricted to 12,300 individually numbered models, it offered out “in seconds” when preorders went stay at PS Direct on Sept. 26, per our sister website IGN. Scalpers are actually reselling it on eBay for 1000’s of {dollars}.

The opposite was a $499.99 PS5 Slim Digital Version thirtieth Anniversary Restricted Version Bundle that omitted the DualSense Edge and charging station. It made its option to retailers on Oct. 10 following its first preorder drop on PS Direct in late September, and it offered out shortly on each events. It is also made its option to eBay at wildly inflated costs.

The PS5 Professional was formally unveiled on Sept. 10 throughout a nine-minute “Technical Presentation” led by Mark Cerny, Lead Architect of the PS5, on the PlayStation YouTube channel. The announcement adopted months of hypothesis and leaks, together with one which appeared to come back from inside the home.

With a bigger GPU than the unique PS5, ray tracing upgrades, and new customized {hardware} for AI-powered upscaling, Cerny mentioned the PS5 Professional is the “strongest console we have ever constructed.” It additionally brings help for WiFi 7, 8K gaming, and a brand new “Professional” model of the PS5’s Sport Enhance function that may improve the efficiency of over 8,500 backward-compatible PS4 titles. It has 2TB of storage, or double the capability of the unique PS5 (which is now almost 4 years outdated).

Notably, the PS5 Professional doesn’t include a disc drive: You need to buy it individually for $79.99. (IGN stories that it has been promoting out constantly throughout main retailers ever for the reason that PS5 Professional was introduced.) A vertical stand that is appropriate with the console can also be accessible for $29.99.

Subsequent-gen upgraders who balk on the worth of the PS5 Professional and its add-ons may take into account buying a used system at a reduced worth: Licensed refurbished PS5 and PS5 Digital Version consoles are newly accessible PS Direct for $399.99 and $349.99, respectively, or $100 lower than their new counterparts.

The PS5 Professional marks the fifth iteration of Sony’s present flagship console (not counting any bundles), which had a a lot sloppier launch and confronted years of pandemic-related provide points after the actual fact. Together with the usual PS5, it joins the PS5 Digital Version, the PS5 Slim, and the PS5 Slim Digital Version.