Sony’s not been shy about the fact that it’s actively working on improvements to the PS5 Pro, and specifically its PSSR upscaling technology.
Support for the system has been mixed since the supercharged system’s release in 2024: some games benefit greatly from the enhanced hardware, while others have undoubtedly underwhelmed.
Hardware snoop Moore’s Law Is Dead spoke to an anonymous developer about what fans can expect from future upgrades, and the improvements are said to be “huge”.
Without getting too deeply into the weeds, as part of its work on Project Amethyst with AMD – which is also laying the groundwork for the PS6 – the platform holder plans to introduce a new version of PSSR next year which will greatly improve image quality.
This will resolve higher quality images without the need for certain parts of input data, suggesting to us that it’ll still produce a clean image from an imperfect source. It’ll also, as a result, decrease the amount of memory requi