PS4 games will also benefit from the PS5 Pro, if a statement by Sony Interactive Entertainment‘s Toshimasa Aoki is anything to go by. We’ve heard a lot about the performance boost that awaits current-gen games on the $700 hardware, but what about the plethora of PS4 games in players’ libraries?
How PS4 games will benefit from the PS5 Pro
Japanese site 4Gamer quizzed Aoki about potential improvements in PS4 games, to which he said that last-gen games with variable frame rates will see a performance boost through backwards compatibility.
The PS4 has an “Image Quality Boost” feature that allows simple upscaling without the need for Playstation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). Aoki says that PS5 Pro players can turn this setting on, should they wish to use it.
PS4 games already get a quality boost on the standard PS5, but Aoki’s statement suggests that there’s an additional PS5 Pro setting that can be turned on for further improvement. This will, of course, need to be tested when the console launches, so the jury is still out.
Elsewhere, Aoki said that PS5 Pro will prevent frame rate drops in PSVR 2 games, which will reduce the sickness that some players feel when using the headset.
