Upscaling on the PlayStation 5 Pro Makes a Big Difference! [VIDEO]

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The half-generation update to the PlayStation 5 hasn’t even been officially announced yet, and Sony has already released some not-so-positive results for the base model.

During the Moore’s Law Is Dead Broken Silicon podcast, Matthew Cassells, founder of Alderon Games, talked about the upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro, its performance, and the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaler. According to Cassells, the studio’s games will be able to turn on ray tracing (RT) on the PlayStation 5 Pro once it reaches 60 FPS on the base model without RT. Image quality will be less blurry, but it won’t solve the problem completely. Games running on an engine like Unreal Engine 5 will not be any faster, so upscaling will be important. According to the developer, PSSR will be about 100% more powerful with the more powerful model compared to the base console. 50% will come from the enhancements and 50% from the upscaler.

The limited RAM and CPU upgrades will not be a big problem according to Cassells, as most console games are not held back by the processor, and scaling up memory is one of the hardest things to do because developers optimize for the RAM available, so only the biggest studios will be able to take advantage of the extra. GPU tuning, on the other hand, can essentially increase graphics detail from medium to the highest (epic) level. 120 Hz modes can also be implemented after fine-tuning the graphics settings.

Although PlayStation 5 is selling well, it is slowing down faster than expected. In the April-June fiscal quarter, 2.4 million PlayStation 5 units were sold, a much weaker result than the 3 million expected. This brought the total to 61.7 million, which sounds good at first, but compared to the PlayStation 4, it was in better shape at launch (63.5 million). Ito Kazunori, investment director at Morning Star Investment, said the PlayStation business is not doing well because profits and sales have been distorted by the weak yen. Sony expected sales to slow down this year, but the company didn’t expect this much. However, this was expected because there are no big games from Sony.

Only the PlayStation 5 Pro can help.

Source: WCCFTech, WCCFTech, Bloomberg

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