PS5 Pro reveal will include new DualSense controller as console price leaked

Additional last minute leaks about today’s PS5 Pro reveal include surprising details about its date and price, and a subsequent State of Play.

Just in case there was any lingering doubt about what today’s ‘technical presentation’ it about from PlayStation, the unlisted video for the event was originally called ‘PS5 Pro’, before it was quickly renamed.

That’s no kind of revelation but what has been surprising is that combing back through the many rumours, it turns out that a little-know leaker managed to get both the date and the length of the presentation right last month.

Brian Potter is not a name that will be familiar to most people, and his account now seems to be suspended, but given the accuracy of the other information it seems likely that his other leaks are also true, including the price of the PS5 Pro being £589.99.

Who Potter is, and what happened to him, is a mystery but he correctly predicted the date of today’s technical presentation and listed the running time as 12 minutes, which seems well within the margin of error for Sony’s official time of nine minutes.

He also predicted an updated DualSense controller with ‘more battery life and enhanced triggers’, which it’s implied will be announced at the same time as the PS5 Pro and presumably released alongside it.

There’s already some evidence for this, as recent listings in the US and Australia show a mystery $5 (£3.82) price rise for the controller. There’s no stated reason for this but it could be because they’re the new models.

That gives much more weight to the rest of Potter’s predictions, as he reveals that the PS5 Pro will support HDR10+ and Dolby Vision for both physical media and some streaming services.

His prediction for the pricing and release date is a little odd though, as he claims that a digital-only version of the console, without a disc drive, will be released on November 14 for £499.99.

However, according to him, the disc version won’t launch until December 5, at a price of £589.99. That’s peculiar, especially given the disc version is usually the best-selling one, and suggests a scarcity of components or some other manufacturing delay.

That is, of course, assuming he’s right, but his final prediction is that a State of Play presentation is scheduled for September 19 and will focus on indie and third party games, with no Sony first party titles expected to feature prominently.

A number of other leakers have also suggested that a State of Play will follow a week after the PS5 Pro reveal, so again there’s already some precedence for what he’s saying.

If Potter turns out to be right about everything it’ll be a real shame they already seem to have disappeared, especially as nobody was paying attention to them when they were active.