Vince Zampella, head of Respawn and the Battlefield franchise, also shared his thoughts on the half-generation update coming in just under two months.
We’ve embedded the Digital Foundry podcast below, and the editors attempted to mimic the PlayStation 5 Pro’s boost mode in games that aren’t getting a PS5 Pro patch. They used an AMD Radeon RX 6800 graphics card to do this, as it’s about 45% more powerful than the base PlayStation 5, with the same amount of cores and perhaps a similar clock speed on this GPU. Elden Ring used the same resolution as the console’s quality mode, with the same graphics settings. You can’t use the same settings on a PC because there is no dynamic resolution scaling, and there is no quality setting like on the console, which uses a combination of medium and high settings…
The test showed that it might not be possible to get a stable 60 fps in Quality mode with Boost mode, but in Performance mode with dynamic resolution scaling and settings, it’s doable if you make good use of the PlayStation 5 Pro’s GPU. The editors believe that games using AMD’s FSR 2 upscaling technology and dynamic resolution scaling will also see a significant improvement in image quality. The higher the base pixel count, the better the image quality, and FSR 2 will deliver.
And this is what Zampella had to say about the PlayStation 5 Pro: “The PlayStation 5 Pro is not out yet, so does it really help us? Not at the moment. Can we do cooler things on it? Sure. I guess we’ll see. We’ll see how much it affects us when we see the adoption rate. We have to make a game that runs on everything, so it’ll just be like, what can we add to something like this, pun intended.
I think the price is expected, and anything that gives us better performance for the people who really love it. To me it’s an amazing thing. I saw something on it where the price… where they look at it as being the most expensive. And it really isn’t. If you go back, some of the older consoles were just as expensive and probably more expensive in inflation. So it was a little shocking at first, but it’s kind of like, it’s actually not that bad. And if you get a $700 PC, you’re not going to get the same performance out of it. So I mean, it’s a balance. Is it expensive for people? Absolutely. Not everybody is going to be able to afford it. Would it be better if it was cheaper? Sure. I want more people to have it. But it really makes sense,” Zampella said.
The PlayStation 5 Pro will be available on November 7th for $700/€800.
Source: WCCFTech
