PS5 Pro's Issues With Certain Games Makes A Purchase Seem Way Less Appealing
The launch of the PlayStation 5 Pro hasn't been off to the best start. For many players, the purchase of a PS5 Pro already seemed like a tall order. Its shocking price of $699.99 is a hefty request, especially when taking into account the PS5 Pro's ultimately minimal graphical enhancements, coupled with the lack of a disc drive in the base purchase.
Nevertheless, Sony has been making a conscious effort to make the purchase of a PS5 Pro seem worthwhile. A selection of popular PS5 titles have received enhancements that are said to take advantage of the Pro's PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) and advanced ray tracing to deliver an upgraded experience for the player. Even then, certain titles have been left with noticeable issues that make a PS5 Pro purchase seem far less appealing.
The success of the PS5 pro may have just taken a huge blow as certain games are failing to run well on the upgraded console. A report from compiles a selection of videos and comments from players who have noticed issues with and, titles that are supposed to be enhanced by the PS5 Pro. struggles to run beyond 30 frames per second in quality mode, while performance mode gives the game a distracting shimmering effect, as demonstrated in a video published on Reddit by user USDOT.
has arguably suffered a worse fate. A YouTube video published by Digital Foundry compares the game's performance mode on both the base PS5 and the Pro version. The comparison helps to highlight the severe issues with image quality on the Pro, as suffers from a distracting shimmering effect alongside lighting problems. The video's analyst, Oliver Mackenzie, ultimately comes to the conclusion that the PS5 Pro's performance mode is worse than the old performance mode, highlighting the major issues that have come from this «enhancement.»
It's currently unclear what could be causing the issues in these titles. Mackenzie suggests the issue could be due to PSSR's upscaling that's causing issues such as the
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