The PS5 Professional launch remains to be over every week away, however followers have already made an annoying discovery: the brand new console received’t work with gamers’ present 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 consumer 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 attempt them out on the Professional and I can verify the underside plates match the slim nevertheless the highest plates don’t match as a result of whereas they’re bodily the identical measurement the enamel that hook up 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 imagined 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 measurement and dimensions however made them have completely different interlocking enamel 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 group had been debating whether or not or not the plates can be a match for weeks as a result 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 immediately, and that console covers appropriate with the PS5 Professional will likely be offered finally, simply not in time for launch. “PS5 console covers should not appropriate with PS5 Professional,” the consultant for the corporate advised IGN. “Nonetheless, gamers will be capable of swap out completely different console covers for PS5 Professional once they turn out to be accessible sooner or later.”
The affirmation will likely be particularly heartbreaking for followers who managed to snag a thirtieth 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!
