PS5 Pro Could Seriously Improve the Quality of Your PS4 Games | Push Square
A leaked image from the PS5 Pro’s settings – which we won’t republish here but you can view on the ResetEra forums – appears to imply that Sony’s supercharged system could make dramatic enhancements to your PS4 library.
The toggle, named ‘Enhance Image Quality for PS4 Games’, claims it can “improve the image quality of PS4 games to enjoy higher quality for some games”. It doesn’t clarify exactly what it’s doing to achieve this, but we wonder if it’s using PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) to upscale games running at a lower resolution.
Sony did touch on this in a PS Blog post earlier in the year, but it’s yet to elaborate. “Enhanced Image Quality for PS4 games is also available to improve the resolution on select PS4 games,” wrote co-CEO Hideaki Nishino.
Every game with a PS5 Pro patch
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If the language seems cautionary then we wouldn’t pay too much attention to that. Ever since Sony got sued for saying Killzone: Shadow Fall runs at 1080p on PS4 (its multiplayer resolution was actually 900p) it’s been very particular with its wording, avoiding definitive statements.
Not all PS4 games got updated for PS5 Game Boost or PS4 Pro, so some kind of system-wide upscaler for the remainder of the library could really add value to the PS5 Pro. We’ll need to wait until next week to find out exactly how this works and what it achieves, though.
As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.
If this could somehow, magically, make Bloodborne run at 60 FPS, that alone might justify the $700 price point.
And nobody tag me telling me how this is impossible. I know.
Sounds great.
Just seen that NX gamer has been sent a Pro by Sony so we should have some more
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