It’s still extremely early days for PS5 Pro but early expert analysis from Digital Foundry is in, and it’s sounding cautiously optimistic. Of course it’s important to note that you can still think Sony’s new-gen system is too expensive; that’s a perfectly valid point of view. You can also believe the improvements aren’t worth the asking price. However, we can’t ignore the very real enhancements on display, as discussed in the video above.
One thing worth addressing is that some of the details from this previously paywalled video leaked over the weekend, completely removed of context. That led Remedy’s communications bigwig Thomas Puha to release a statement about Alan Wake 2. In essence, some pretty low internal resolutions are being attached to these early PS5 Pro builds, but as Digital Foundry itself points out: the quantity of pixels is becoming less important as we begin to focus on the quality of those pixels.
So in some games, you’re talking about internal resolutions as low as 864p, but the entire point of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) is to bump the overall image quality using AI-powered technology.