But is a PS5 Pro even necessary? Christopher Dring from Gamesindustry reported last March from developers who doubt the purpose of the PS5 Pro. They wouldn't even have maxed out the base PS5.
The fact that another console means more work and Sony is apparently encouraging developers to take the advantages of the PS5 Pro into account may also play a role here. Therefore there is a special labelas we reported several times.
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The hardware upgrade also increases the gap to the Xbox Series S, despite all the scaling options might represent a certain hurdle.
A PS5 Pro makes sense, says Kepler
From another perspective, the PS5 Pro is from Kepler_L2 who specializes in AMD hardware with his Twitter/X channel and seems to have a certain technical understanding.
He couldn't understand the criticism of the new console, especially the recurring comments that say that the PS5 is far from being used to its full potential. “We don’t live in the 90s/2000s anymore. Consoles are not esoteric hardware like the N64 or PS3.”
In this case, esoteric means that the technical possibilities are not visible to outsiders. “There is no hidden, untapped potential with the PS5,” Kepler continued.
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Over the past few decades, hardware providers have agreed on “very similar designs” and the differences between CPUs from Intel, AMD or Apple or GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD or Intel are rather manageable.
“Every optimization for one provider also applies to all others,” Kepler further emphasizes, apparently also referring to the huge differences that were introduced with the PS3, for example, and which initially caused developers to despair.
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“Nobody” optimizes down to the smallest detail anymore
It took years for the PS3's Cell processor to be largely exploited, which produced better games, at least from a technical perspective, as the generation progressed.
In previous generations, tools that had been massively improved over the years and were able to “extract most of the performance potential with ease” were also helpful. Nowadays, however, “nobody optimizes down to the smallest detail” because it is difficult on the one hand and unnecessary on the other.
Ultimately it is Hardware architecture Even in the case of the PS5 Pro, it is only part of the whole. A lot is also changing at the software level. These include a Ultra Boost Mode and Sony's new ones PSSR upscaling to 4K with a latency of just 2 ms.
Further reports about the PS5 Pro:
Kepler's statements only represent his personal assessment of the situation, but provide a different view of the possible goal behind the PS5 Pro. What price players would pay for it was recently part of a survey on PLAY3.DE.
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