PS5 Pro Covers Designed To Be Incompatible With Existing Ones

The PS5 Pro launch remains to be over per week away, however followers have already made an annoying discovery: the brand new console received’t work with gamers’ current customized cowl plates. Sony will finally promote new ones, however these received’t be accessible till someday sooner or later.

This bizarre wrinkle was uncovered by a Reddit person who shared it in a submit that has since gone viral on the PlayStation subreddit. “I had some Cobalt blue plates so I made a decision to attempt them out on the Professional and I can verify the underside plates match the slim nonetheless the highest plates don’t match as a result of whereas they’re bodily the identical dimension the tooth that connect with the system are in barely completely different locations,” they wrote.

Whereas they didn’t share a picture of the PS5 Professional itself, which isn’t alleged to be formally out till November 7, they did present comparisons of the Professional and Slim plates. Whereas the underside plate suits, you may see the place the variations within the plastic locking items differ between the 2 consoles.

“Sony made the PS5 Slim and PS5 Professional plates the very same dimension and dimensions however made them have completely different interlocking tooth to deliberately make them not appropriate though they’re precisely the identical,” tweeted YouTuber Jake Randall. “RIP everybody saying the one distinction was the scale of the racing stripe,” responded a commenter. “This was posted three weeks in the past and everybody was in denial.”

The PlayStation neighborhood had been debating whether or not or not the plates can be a match for weeks as a consequence of imprecise messaging from the PlayStation Weblog submit revealing the PS5 Professional. A picture displaying console cowl compatibility each appeared like definitive proof the Slim covers wouldn’t work but also appeared like too ridiculous of a move for everyone to be convinced.

Sony confirmed the veracity of the Reddit submit’s discovery as we speak, and that console covers appropriate with the PS5 Professional shall be bought finally, simply not in time for launch. “PS5 console covers should not appropriate with PS5 Professional,” the consultant for the corporate told IGN. “Nevertheless, gamers will be capable to swap out completely different console covers for PS5 Professional after they change into accessible sooner or later.”

The affirmation shall be particularly heartbreaking for followers who managed to snag a 30th Anniversary PS5 slim however not the extremely uncommon Professional mannequin. Some had been hoping they may nonetheless swap the PS1-style covers onto the Professional. Nope!