Several Square Enix games are getting a performance boost thanks to a new feature in the half-generation console update – and you’d expect it.

The PlayStation 5 Pro can even give games that haven’t received a PS5 Pro patch better image quality and performance, with Game Boost mode seen as a workaround to avoid wasting the console’s minimum $700/€800 price tag. In the video below, Digital Foundry’s editors have reviewed the current-gen Final Fantasy games, and they perform quite well on the PlayStation 5 Pro.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is understandably ahead of the other titles, as it’s the game that received the PlayStation 5 Pro patch. The game’s new graphics mode, Versatility (only available on the half-generation console!), offers a cleaner image and more stable performance in almost all scenarios compared to Performance mode. There’s also a slight increase in resolution over the base PlayStation 5, but the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaling, while impressive, has a few glitches: vegetation is problematic both near and far.

Final Fantasy XVI shows significant improvements in both graphical modes without the PlayStation 5 Pro patch. In graphics mode, Game Boost provides a higher native resolution, which makes the image clearer and more detailed. Performance mode has a similarly higher resolution (but not as much of an increase), but more stable performance (+24%), often reaching the console’s variable refresh rate (VRR). Where the base PlayStation 5 struggles to reach 60 FPS, the PlayStation 5 Pro achieves it from the wrist. With TSC MAA and FSR, the pixel structure is largely intact, so there’s not as much aliasing in the game.

With Game Boost, Final Fantasy XIV shows great performance on the PlayStation 5 Pro. With dynamic resolution turned off, it can run 40% faster in 4K mode, holding steady at 60 fps, and only in fairly intense scenes does the frame rate drop a bit. At 1440p, the game often hits 120 fps, so it’s quite dynamic. Even Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins has a more stable performance on the PlayStation 5 Pro without a patch, so the Team Ninja spin-off runs much better…

That’s to be expected from the console.

Source: WCCFTech