PS5 Pro owners say some games look worse on the new console

Games similar Silent Hill 2 and Star Wars Outlaws are moving worse connected PS5 Pro than they bash connected the archetypal consoles, overmuch to players’ annoyance.

While galore person balked astatine the whopping £700 terms tag for the PlayStation 5 Pro, the console was ever meant to people a niche audience, anxious to play games connected the astir almighty hardware possible.

In fact, Sony has claimed the precocious terms hasn’t been detrimental to the PS5 Pro’s sales, arsenic it’s surpassed the motorboat of the PS4 Pro. Although immoderate retailers person already begun offering terms cuts little than 2 weeks aft its release, which is odd.

Despite plentifulness of affirmative buzz from immoderate PS5 Pro owners, complaints person since arisen regarding however definite games look and execute connected the console.

Looking done societal media sites and forums, players person reported ocular issues, namely shimmering and aliasing, that hazard making games look worse than they did connected the basal PlayStation 5.

To an untrained eye, these sorts of issues tin sometimes beryllium unnoticeable, but for those who wage utmost attraction to graphical prime (i.e. emblematic PS5 Pro owners) shimmering and aliasing tin beryllium distracting and an outright woody breaker.

Which PS5 Pro games person ocular issues?

The bully quality is these issues aren’t cosmopolitan and lone look to hap successful prime games. The Silent Hill 2 remake looks to beryllium the astir egregious illustration based connected this Reddit thread, which shares a screenshot of respective X complaints directed astatine Konami.

One X user, heavensnightxx, posted a abbreviated clip of the crippled successful show mode and the shimmering is beauteous blatant, particularly erstwhile the camera focuses connected a puddle of water.

‘I instantly knew thing was disconnected without adjacent seeing gameplay antecedently oregon adjacent playing the crippled earlier this. That’s however atrocious this is,’ writes Unlucky-Soil-2456 connected Reddit, ‘I can’t adjacent bring myself to play it successful this authorities due to the fact that it’s truthful distracting.’

There are akin Reddit threads for Alan Wake 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Star Wars Outlaws, with the second including a clip of the satellite Akiva, which features not lone flickering visuals but immoderate foliage popping successful and retired of existence.

On YouTube, 1 PS5 Pro proprietor uploaded footage of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 and adjacent we tin spot the distracting flurry of achromatic dots that look each clip the camera moves. In the comments, the uploader, ChaysticPlays, adds this lone happens erstwhile playing astatine 60Hz and isn’t a occupation astatine 120Hz.

The prevailing mentation is that these issues stem from the PS5 Pro’s PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) technology, which makes usage of AI upscaling to amended the solution and let for amended graphical fidelity.

With immoderate luck, these issues tin beryllium resolved with patches but, successful the meantime, disgruntled players volition either request to woody with them oregon swap to prime mode, which caps games astatine 30 frames per second.

Although you’d deliberation with the improved hardware, PlayStation 5 owners would nary longer beryllium forced to take betwixt amended graphics and smoother framework rates.

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