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PS5 Pro hands-on: testing 11 upgraded games, PSSR upscaling and the new hardware


Digital Foundry's hands-on preview of the PS5 Pro, with Oliver Mackenzie testing 11 PS5 Pro titles, seeing the new hardware in the flesh and evaluating PSSR.

This goes double if you primarily played your PS5 games in performance mode when given the option, as you're keeping the same 60fps update rate in most cases but image quality takes a gigantic step forward - and you may get some new ray tracing features in the bargain. | Image credit: Digital Foundry Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is perhaps the first PS5 Pro game that sparked a lot of debate online, as Sony shared an additional seven-minute ProRes clip which we spun out into a video and Eurogamer article. Regardless, the extreme level of image quality makes it worthwhile, and with no RT support this is the obvious way to push this title to new heights on PS5 Pro - alongside less significant upgrades to various visual settings, with some options from the old fidelity mode.

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