Following a technical presentation on 11 September 2024, Sony revealed its upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro console, with a staggering asking price of S$1,069. This premium amount raises the pertinent question of the games that are coming to the console, and whether it’s worth buying when it launches on 7 November 2024.
Similar to its predecessor, the PlayStation 4 Pro, it allows developers to release enhanced versions of their games that take advantage of the new hardware, including a larger GPU and advanced ray tracing. Non-enhanced games will also benefit from improvements due to the PS5’s “Game Boost” feature. As before, the PS5 Pro will not feature console-exclusive titles.
Here’s the list of first-party titles games set to be enhanced by the PS5 Pro:
- Gran Turismo 7
- Improvements: Ray-traced reflections between cars, 4K 60fps, dedicated 8K mode
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Improvements: Overall “detail boost”, “improvements to lighting and visual effects”, “Hair and skin improvements in cinematics”
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Improvements: Higher resolution and detail of distant objects
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Improvements: Clearer distant details
- The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered
- Improvements: Greater visual detail at 60fps, sharper distant details
- Demon’s Souls
As for third-party entries, PS5 Pro support will be available on the following:
- Alan Wake 2
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- F1 2024
- Improvements: Ray tracing
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Improvements: Better ray tracing, “greater variety of reflective surfaces, and further realism in the casting of shadows”
- The Crew Motorfest
- The First Descendant
One thing to note, however, is that the titles listed above are just the initial games with confirmed enhancements, and more games are bound to receive PlayStation 5 Pro support after the console is released.
Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise “duds” like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3. He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying.
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