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  • 😬 The PS5 Pro is struggling with some titles
  • 😫 Silent Hill 2 remake and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor have issues
  • πŸ‘Ž Currently, Silent Hill 2 runs worse on PS5 Pro than it does the base console
  • πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ There are over 50 PS5 Pro enhanced games, but each title varies in terms of improvements
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Time for PS5 Ultra Pro Max

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Or they gonna introduce GPU attachments instead of the disc drive lmao

But seriously, it's beyond sad how awful this "upgrade" is. First it's an insane price for minimal upgrade, there are no new games to even make use of this, and now even older games can't properly make use of the better hardware. The whole reason to even upgrade diminishes really quickly, and it wasn't even worth it in the first place.

Although it's kinda funny to read about people who bought the Pro and then share negative reviews how so-not-worth the purchase was. Listing all kinds of negatives that they could've known prior to buying one if they put in even minimal effort to research.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

The one good thing the PS5 pro brought was the news that scalpers got fucked up because the demand is so damn low

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I still see the PS5Pro as a bit dumb, but also not sure what Sony could easily do around this problem.

We’re at the graphical plateau where any improvements become extremely expensive, and increasingly hard to notice. Sure, we have 4K TVs and we’re not quite able to play all our games at 4K 120fps, but very few people care about that level of detail. Honestly, I don’t even know what Sony may be planning for the PS6 while still keeping it at a reasonable price.

[–] GhiLA 3 points 4 weeks ago

Release a slim model and some colors?

Gaming's problem is games. I have no idea why Sony keeps throwing more hardware at less games if hardware is the loss leader in the gaming industry anyway.

Go bribe Remedy or FROM or somebody for an exclusive, wash/rinse/repeat the Bloodborne strategy.

[–] ryedaft 1 points 4 weeks ago

Ray tracing. It makes good looking human skin. But if course it only matters for 3D games that aren't cel shaded.

2023 NVIDIA DLSS 3.5: Enhancing Ray Tracing With AI; Coming This Fall To Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Portal with RTX & More | GeForce News | NVIDIA - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-dlss-3-5-ray-reconstruction/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Let me introduce you to my former phone: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

And my phone is redmi note 9 pro max xD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

They'll paint flames on the side to make it go faster.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Games not in the list of enhanced titles are not enhanced by the PS5 pro.

People who do not realize this are the same room temp IQ people who bough a PS5 pro.

More news at 11.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The PS4 pro could run non-updated games with better performance. Does the PS5 pro not have boost mode or whatever it's called?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

"We expect Pro implementations to improve over time, and the first party Sony titles we've seen in the pipeline (Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone) looks simply sensational, but it may be some time before developers fully get to grips with the new hardware. But on the flipside, even in the here and now, even with so many different high resolution mode variations in the titles we've looked at so far, the bottom line is clear. Not much more money is buying a whole lot more power."

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2016-playstation-4-pro-review

The PS4 pro had a much more compelling price position, however, the landing was pretty much the same.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

So 2 out of 50 games aren't really improved, aka 4%.

Turns out you can't just throw better hardware at every game to make it run better, who would have thought.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

This works for PC but not for PS. PS games are highly optimised to target the current generation of consoles and there is very little initiative for developers to target a new console platform unless Sony sells tens of millions of those, which I very much doubt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It shows how devs often look at better hardware and prioritise heavier features over image quality and performance. Current gen of games could easily do 4k60 (most last gen games run like that) if they didn't try to get RT into the mix, but devs don't like that as RT gives them more time and resources that originally would've been spent on placing lights or baking scenes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

No thank you Sony.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

And the rubes still bought a pro anyway

[–] heavy 3 points 4 weeks ago

Silent Hill 2 is a strange beast, you can tell it runs horribly. I'm sure a cracker or something is figuring it out.

Don't buy the Ps5 pro though, there's no point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't follow the PS scene, but I gathered that's an AMD APU in there? If so, what's the desktop equivalent performance-wise?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

The PS5 pro GPU is equivalent to a Radeon 7800XT with slightly better ray tracing cores, the CPU to a Ryzen 7 3700X with limited power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There are over 50 Ps5 Pro enhanced games

The Ps5 has games?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Games don't need to be PS5 exclusive to be PS5 Pro enhanced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

CMV but the PS5 Pro is a completely pointless release. The only reason I see is for Sony to try to justify the higher price tag on the PS6 once it releases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Should've upgraded the CPU too!