Sony has lifted the lid on its mid-gen console refresh. The PS5 Pro will launch this November and will have massively beefed up internals – at a massively beefed up price to match. One of the promises of the machine are “PS5 Pro Enhanced” games, with a handful having already been announced. However, it seems like many more titles will have full PS5 Pro updates by the machine’s launch.
That’s according to CNET who were given a chance to go hands-on with the PS5 Pro prior to its announcement.
CNET said “The planned 40 to 50 games that get PS5 Pro upgrades at the hardware’s Nov. 7 launch will focus on 4K and 60fps upgrades across the board, but also have a laundry list of other graphics boosts including new volumetric lighting and effects, richer graphics, more on-screen background characters, and modes that can ramp up to 120fps or 8K gaming.”
CNET got to see some of this for themselves. Author Scot Stein went hands-on with quite a few titles, but Gran Turismo 7 was the highlight, boasting a brand new 8K mode, as well as a 4K ray-tracing mode.
The article also mentions what I speculated about when the console was announced, that the PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) upscaling will work across the entirety of the PlayStation catalogue, meaning older titles can get a nice visual boost. However, CNET says that this won’t work straight out of the box – instead, it “requires games to update via a patch” in order to enable PSSR.
Hopefully, this will be a very easy thing for developers to do. If we’re lucky, it will be a simple option they can enable, thus encouraging them all to go back and turn it on. At worst, it could be a more cumbersome operation, meaning not all developers will want to do it.
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