The arrival of the PS5 in November has raised many awkward questions about the future of the PS4 Pro. Currently, the PS4 Pro sells for $399, which is hard to justify given that it is the exact same price as the more powerful PS5 Digital Edition.

In other words, it is hard to imagine anyone buying a PS4 Pro in 2021. Those who want the best performance are bound to pay $399 for the PS5 Digital Edition or pay $100 more for one with a disc drive; those who just want access to the PS4's vast game library will save $100 and buy a $299 PS4.

Now we get our first hint that Sony is thinking the same thing. As our sister site GamesRadar discovered, Sony's PlayStation Direct website shows both the PS4 and PS4 Pro as "out of stock," but the latter has an additional line: for the latter, "There are currently no plans to restock this item."

Sonny adds the sentence, "This item is currently not scheduled to be restocked.

Sony has not officially announced the end of PS4 Pro production, but it is probably only a matter of time; Xbox One X production has already ended, and Sony has indicated that it plans to support the PS4 "for several years after the PS5 launch," but it will not be via hardware, but in a generation-wide It was always likely to be in the form of software.

Without the superior backward compatibility offered by the PS5, one could argue more for continued PS4 Pro production. For example, films such as "The Last Guardian" have achieved 30 fps on the PS4 Pro and suffered from stuttering on the regular PS4 hardware, while the unpatched PS5 delivers a consistent 60 fps.

A more recent example is Cyberpunk 2077. This is a bit of a flop on last-gen consoles, but runs best on the Xbox Series X and PS5 due to backwards compatibility. Technically, the next generation version will not appear until next year.

As it stands, the PS4 Pro is in an odd place. It is neither a power option nor a value option, and there is essentially no market left for it. Given that, if Sony has not yet unofficially discontinued the PS4 Pro, it would not be surprising if an official decision to discontinue it was made not too long ago. After all, the company needs to focus all of its efforts on making sure that the supply of PS5s can keep up with players' continued voracious demand.