Sony’s Bringing Its Best PS5 Pro Tech to the Regular PlayStation 5… Kind Of
Sony’s been spending so much time and energy pushing the PlayStation 5 Pro as hard as it can go that it seemed that the six-year-old PS5 was getting short shrift. Now, Sony’s bringing a scaled-down version of its excellent console upscaling tech to the base PS5, and it may make your games look a little sharper on your 4K TV. Sony first introduced its PSSR 2 update (Sony just refers to it as PSSR, or PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) on PlayStation 5 Pro consoles earlier this year.
- ▪Sony’s been spending so much time and energy pushing the PlayStation 5 Pro as hard as it can go that it seemed that the six-year-old PS5 was getting short shrift.
- ▪Now, Sony’s bringing a scaled-down version of its excellent console upscaling tech to the base PS5, and it may make your games look a little sharper on your 4K TV.
- ▪Sony first introduced its PSSR 2 update (Sony just refers to it as PSSR, or PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) on PlayStation 5 Pro consoles earlier this year.
3 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 2 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Sony brings AI upscaling to the base PS5 — Engadget
- ▪ Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular PS5 — The Verge
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Sony’s been spending so much time and energy pushing the PlayStation 5 Pro as hard as it can go that it seemed that the six-year-old PS5 was getting short shrift. Now, Sony’s bringing a scaled-down version of its excellent console upscaling tech to the base PS5, and it may make your games look a little sharper on your 4K TV. Sony first introduced its PSSR 2 update (Sony just refers to it as PSSR, or PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) on PlayStation 5 Pro consoles earlier this year. This took many existing games and ran them through a new upscaling pipeline that sharpened visuals and drastically improved performance, at least in some cases. At the time, Sony claimed the regular PS5 didn’t have the GPU horsepower to handle some of these upscaling improvements.
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