The PS5 Professional launch continues to be over per week away, however followers have already made an annoying discovery: the brand new console gained’t work with gamers’ present customized cowl plates. Sony will ultimately promote new ones, however these gained’t be out there till someday sooner or later.
This bizarre wrinkle was uncovered by a Reddit person who shared it in a publish that has since gone viral on the PlayStation subreddit. “I had some Cobalt blue plates so I made a decision to strive them out on the Professional and I can affirm the underside plates match the slim nevertheless 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 presupposed to be formally out till November 7, they did present comparisons of the Professional and Slim plates. Whereas the underside plate matches, you possibly can 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 suitable despite the fact that 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 group had been debating whether or not or not the plates could be a match for weeks as a consequence of imprecise messaging from the PlayStation Weblog publish revealing the PS5 Professional. A picture displaying console cowl compatibility each appeared like definitive proof the Slim covers wouldn’t work but additionally appeared like too ridiculous of a transfer for everybody to be satisfied.
Sony confirmed the veracity of the Reddit publish’s discovery right now, and that console covers suitable with the PS5 Professional will probably be offered ultimately, simply not in time for launch. “PS5 console covers are usually not suitable with PS5 Professional,” the consultant for the corporate instructed IGN. “Nonetheless, gamers will be capable of swap out completely different console covers for PS5 Professional once they turn out to be out there sooner or later.”
The affirmation will probably be particularly heartbreaking for followers who managed to snag a thirtieth Anniversary PS5 slim however not the extremely uncommon Professional mannequin. Some have been hoping they may nonetheless swap the PS1-style covers onto the Professional. Nope!
